Ubuntu is Getting AI Features in 2026 – Here's What's Planned
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AI features are coming to Ubuntu in 2026, though Canonical has made clear that the distro is not becoming an AI product. In a community post, Jon Seager,
  • LordCrom@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    By Odin’s beard… Ill have to switch to a new distro. Avoiding AI shit is one of the main reasons to use linux

  • e0qdk@reddthat.com
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    3 days ago

    Better out-of-the-box text-to-speech voices would be very welcome. The defaults are pretty painfully robotic… (Try spd-say "Hello world" if you don’t know what I mean.)

    Trivial to use on-device dictation software could also be useful.

    The capabilities of models like qwen3.6 to do things like on-device image analysis are pretty incredible if you have hardware capable of running it – I’ve run it on a Framework Desktop – but I have no desire to expose my systems directly to AI agents. That’s just asking for trouble… If an AI agent can fuck up, it will fuck up eventually, and I’d rather it not have the ability to delete my files when it does.