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@chadmccullough@mastodon.bsd.cafe

2026-09-25 19:44 UTC

So, my move to a BSD isn't going as quickly as I would like, and I wanted to get off of Debian since the whole vote to go pro-AI debacle. I figured moving to a Linux distribution that has a very strong anti-AI policy would be the right choice until I can get a BSD installed properly on my desktop or extra laptop. More than a year ago, I tried @elementary@mastodon.social. It's an awesome project but I could never get my workflow working with the desktop environment. Most definitely not the fault of Elementary. I just have a weird workflow. Earlier today, I decided to give the latest release another try. I'm going to keep it on here and actually work with the desktop environment, instead of giving up after a day. The project is staunchly anti-AI. And that is important to me. I know the Linux kernel is tainted but unless we want to fork the kernel from a version prior to Torvalds allowing the use of AI, we're just going to have to deal with it. I don't like it, but I'm no developer and who in the world would want to take on a forked project as big as the Linux kernel? Yikes! Anyway, I'm really liking how I have Elementary setup on my ThinkPad T14 and I'm going to keep using it for now. Who knows? It might keep me on Linux with one piece of my hardware even after moving to BSD. #linux #bsd #elementary_OS #noAI

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  • @chadmccullough@mastodon.bsd.cafe @elementary@mastodon.social I have Elementary OS on one laptop and Chimera Linux (which is also against LLM usage) on another. I'm happy with both, but Chimera requires a lot more technical know-how and digging through the docs to use. I'm thinking of using GNU Guix (yet another no-LLMs Linux distribution) but it uses Guile Scheme as the configuration language. It's working well in a VM, but if I wasn't using a cousin of Scheme at work I would find the learning curve intimidating.

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  • @yojimbo@masto.hackers.town 2026-09-28 21:46

    @chadmccullough@mastodon.bsd.cafe @elementary@mastodon.social Which BSDs are actually avoiding LLM contributions? I haven't done much research yet ... ?

    Open ##4941984