Jon Seager as the VP of Engineering at Canonical
Seager explained in this morning’s update while there won’t be a “global kill switch” for AI features on Ubuntu, their plan is to deliver all the AI features via Snap packages. So removing AI features on Ubuntu will come down to removing Snaps.
lmao
At this point if snaps are being installed on your system you might want to have a talk with the admin/IT guy, unless you are the admin in which case you do you🤷♀️. Carry on good sir/lady/person.
The AI bros on the other hand are probably drooling all over this as AI and Ubuntu basically goes hand in hand.
Well I need a distro that has documented active directory support to connect to the existing servers. Tried OpenSUSE which had problems just installing let alone running, so Ubuntu is really all there is left. Linux at work is just not as fully featured as Windows unfortunately. Local group policy servers are so useful.
unless you are the admin in which case you do you🤷♀️. Carry on good sir/lady/person.
But dont come anywhere near my systems please.
The AI-backed features will initially be as a “preview” and “strictly opt-in basis” for Ubuntu 26.10. For Ubuntu 27.04 and beyond, the plan is to have an initial setup wizard around prompt users on the AI native features they may want or not.
I don’t see a problem if they do it like this.
Operative word here is “initially”
So for me it’ll be an upgrade to 26.04 then stay there till I figure out a migration plan to Debian for my main workstation/server currently on 22.04.
Ubuntu has always been this ugly, slow as shit distro for me. I ran my first Minecraft server on a potato with Ubuntu and it barely worked at all. Just switching to Debian made it viable.
It’s been solid reliable for me since 2004.
Unfortunately, it’s time to change.
Unfortunately, it’s time to change.
If you didn’t switch to a credible distribution after all the shit Canonical pulled already, you won’t switch away from Ubuntu this time either.
I could get around all their bullshit before and still have a very good, very usable Linux OS.
Now if you remove Snaps, the system breaks. And so if you have to remove Snaps to get rid of the AI… I mean, I draw the line at forcing Snaps to have a functioning system. But the AI is the cherry on top of the swirl of shit this distro is about to become.
I think I made my mind. I’m going to go with Tumbleweed. I was thinking Debian, but it’s missing too many quality of life features and it’s a bit old.
How was that stint where they sent your desktop search results to Amazon?
Mild inconvenience, it was a different time, Amazon was still cool among many.
On a potato you were supposed to use Xubuntu or Lubuntu, not Gnome.
Well it was headless, so
You mean you ran Ubuntu Server and found it slow?! That’s amazing, specially back then. Truly a potato.
Since, like I said, the machine ran just fine with Debian, it probably wasn’t the machine.
I think I’m going to trust Ubuntu more since the pretty ambitious 25.10 release. They made telemetry opt-in (it was opt-out) in 26.04.
Feels in line with Ubuntu.
Luckily it’s simple enough to switch to a different distro. 🤷♂️
I had really hoped Ubuntu would find some way to get themselves right. For all the new users who might switch via Ubuntu or stay with it out of familiarity :(
All these nonsense comments…
So you need to remove separate snaps per feature? Ok that makes sense? I dont think you need to remove all snaps, or that installing snap would add AI features?
Think, people…