Anything with Cinnamon Desktop or KDE Plasma is going to be the most ‘Windows-like’ in how the UI works.

If they’re coming from Windows, but they prefer macOS-like interfaces, GNOME or COSMIC fit that bill.

It doesn’t matter what distro you select, for the most part, as Linux is Linux. The only differences are immutable or not, desktop environment, and package management type, for the most part.

That said, Mint, an Ubuntu flavor, Debian, Fedora, openSUSE…all good options.

Careful. You’re going to get tetanus from sucking off clankers.

Ugh YES. I have to literally make remembering birthdays a math problem to remember it. Or some other pattern recognition.

“X person’s birthday is on the same day as Y person and the same month as Z person”.

Shit like that.

I think I developed a brain bleed reading this

The fuck is a glorp YouTuber?

There was a study done several months ago. I’ll try to find the source again and link it here in a comment edit.

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Couldn’t find the study, but here is an infographic that has similar data: https://infogram.com/ai-hellucination-report-2025-1h9j6q7mz7q354g

Hallucinations have improved, but the average for all models is still around 8-9%. Likely the study I read before was from last year, so the higher hallucinations rate is from that.

Even the best model hallucinates an average of around 1 in 100 times and OpenAI has stated publicly that hallucinations are mathematically impossible to eliminate entirely.

My company added an AI chatbot to our web site, but beyond that we generally are anti-AI.

Generative AI has an average error rate of 9-13%. Nobody should trust it wholesale and what it spits out.

It has some excellent use cases. Vibe code/sysadmin/netadmin’ing are not one of those things.

As someone who works in network engineering support and has seen Claude completely fuck up people’s networks with bad advice: LOL.

Literally had an idiot just copying and pasting commands from Claude into their equipment and brought down a network of over 1000 people the other day.

It hallucinated entire executables that didn’t exist. It asked them to create init scripts for services that already had one. It told them to bypass the software UI, that had the functionality they needed, and start adding routes directly to the system kernel.

Every LLM is the same bullshit guessing machine.

Which part of the industry?

I had no idea what the acronym was. Guess I’m just sheltered or something.

Pretty sure everybody is missing the joke. The joke is that Debian packages are so stable and stale that you likely will need a reboot before an update.

Also, it’s a joke…please patch your boxes, k?

Hey get out of my head

Your brain runs on ChatGPT now. Better start eating a diet of NVidia GPUs.

God dammit iFixIt WHY? I liked you.

Sluggish UI? I’ve never had issues with the UI being sluggish … Steam Chat always just works for me in the Steam client.

I set mine up with HAProxy for TLS offloading and ACME for the server cert. Restrict your access to just your country/region by GeoIP and you are pretty good to go.

Mint is based on Ubuntu LTS. The packages aren’t THAT out of date. Most people don’t give a shit if they’re running the bleeding edge of kernels or what version of mesa is installed. If it works with their hardware, they’re good.

That’s an interesting way of looking at things, but generally measurement standards are agreed upon. Regardless of whether they can change, that doesn’t negate their usefulness in measuring things now.

Yeah that’s the annoying thing. Generative AI is actually really useful…in SPECIFIC situations. Discovering new battery tech, new medicines, etc. are all good use cases because it’s basically a parrot and blender combined and most of these things are rehashes if existing technologies in new and novel ways.

It is not a fucking good solution for a search engine replacement to ask “Why do farts smell?”. It uses way too much energy for that and it hallucinates bullshit.