DevDave

indeed! The open source community should adopt LLM powered mailing list filters. Basically new age version of “protection money” as you pay AI firms to stop other AI firms from drowning your organization.

Joking aside, the dead Internet theory is unfortunately looking pretty accurate.

kinda like an anglerfish in that you are lured into a false sense of security which makes the straight to the jugular scathing responses even more effective.

I’ve been using some variation of Linux since the mid 90’s but never been able to fully switch over. That said I am on my longest and perhaps permanent switch over with KDE EndevourOS (Arch based). I don’t believe this is what you are hoping for but I do believe it is close so perhaps something to keep an eye on for the future.

I have gotten Teams to run once for a about an hour before it crashed and now I can’t figure out what proton/wine voodoo witch doctor recipe I used.

No idea what luck you will have with RDP or RustDesk.

KDE plasma’s window tiling manager is really damn cool but has no documentation. Still you can do neat stuff with it like having a floating window tile on top of another tile (basically an always on top state but on steroids) with distinct tiling arrangements for each virtual desk space.

Scaling has been good but font support is still at the “almost but still not perfect”. A graphics designer might be in trouble.

Drivers - This is where Arch’s pacman (software package manager) and pkgbuild really shine. If it can compile and is available as a git repo, an rpm, or deb file then there is a good chance you can get it working. That said there are still an unfortunate mountain of unsupported stuff.

Otherwise, with all the improvements to Wine via proton and the other forks, it is getting easier to run a lot more Window’s applications.

Like I said, EndevourOS/Arch with KDE is getting pretty close to being an easy jump from Windows but not 100% perfect.

They can’t make it to obvious this is the bad place.

“Alright so this system is called ‘testing’ but you need to get two seniors to sign off plus a good reason to push an update.”

/What about this system?/

“Oh, that’s where we do all are actual testing, just be careful not to break it too much.”

/Alright, what is it called?/

“Uhm, I think its called prod or something like that. The root password is written on a sticky note on the upper right corner of John’s monitor.”

/Who is John, the senior dev or something?/

“What? Hahaha no, John is just the summer intern.”

I think the bigger drivers behind Anti-AI is: the novelty has worn off, the upper class is shoving it into everything from the fast food intercom at a drive through to everything on the phone and OS, AI is drastically raising energy prices even without turning on a switch as power companies plan for increased need for capacity, AI has made computer parts expensive, AI is visibly making the dead internet theory a reality, and while there is more reasons left the big underlining issue is there is very little tangible benefit.

Also accepting AI requires being alright with the upper class stealing the bulk of the species intellectual property after decades of “Don’t steal music” and all those “FBI warnings” about copying movies. Further insult is the audacity to want money for rehashing what they stole.