I used to only use Linux on old, outdated machines. They made it so that the computer was usable, but given the age it was still not a great experience. After Windows decided to bake ads into their OS, I installed Linux on my modern machine.

Everything is just faster. Windows/MacOS have so much overhead on every single action it’s actually crazy. Like, just typing on the keyboard is faster. Opening folders is faster. I thought folders opened instantly in Windows, but they don’t, it takes milliseconds more on Windows than Linux, and it’s noticeable. It feels like the folder opens before I get done with my double click.

I am a pretty basic computer user, outside of software development (something that is objectively better on Linux) I only use a web browser and play games on Steam. I have yet to run into something that isn’t a better experience on Linux than Windows.

I guess what I’m saying is that the colloquial definition of “AI” hasn’t changed with the rise of LLMs. “AI” has been used to mean “computers that can make decisions” for at least 20 years. I don’t know if you play video games, but “AI” has been synonymous with “Bot” or “NPC” in that space for a long time now.

When I was in college, I took classes on Artificial Neural Networks, a good several years before LLMs were released to the public. While you wouldn’t find it in a textbook, a lot of the students called ANNs “AI”.

Hell, the term “Artificial General Intelligence” was coined in 2007 to replace “AI” for the definition you are using, since people had started using “AI” a lot looser. That was 18 years ago, long before LLMs.

I agree that the corporations calling their LLMs AI is misleading and manipulative, hell I even could agree that they shouldn’t be allowed to, but let’s not pretend that they have changed the definition of AI. That is fundamentally untrue.

I has, but it also has meant a computer “making decisions” for decades as well. I would know, I’ve been using it that way for 20 years, especially in the gaming space. Playing against bots that even remotely feel like a person is playing has been “playing against the AI”

Don’t get me wrong, I agree that the marketing being done today is pretty aggregious, and the folks doing it are 100% being manipulative by using the term “AI” in their marketing, but I don’t think they’ve used the term beyond a meaning it has already had for a long time.

Words have meaning, and the meaning of those words change throughout time, cultures, and even niche circles. In a perfect world, we’d all explain the definition of a word that we are using, but we don’t, and we rely on public consensus to determine the meaning of words. People are able to accept this for slang, but for some reason have a hard time accepting that it happens for normal words as well. People have been using AI to mean “any semblance of thought” in tech for a long time. When playing a game against a computer, people have been calling the computer player AI, even back when games were rudimentary.

Of course, I’m as big a hater of AI by the modern definition as anyone, I just think there are a lot of people dying on the hill of “words can’t change” when it’s a pretty crazy position to hold.

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This is a bad take.

Apologizing alone is insufficient always. Apologies are empty without action. Changing alone is sometimes sufficient. Not everything needs to be a spectacle all the time. For public figures, though, this is insufficient. Apologizing + changing is perfectly sufficient. With this, you have explained that you know what you did is wrong, and that you no longer stand behind the actions you took in the past. You prove this is true by changing your behaviour.

Expecting someone to become an educator on why people should never make the mistakes you did is unreasonable.

Pewdiepie specifically has made multiple videos/statements on why he should never have done the things he did, explaining why it wasn’t okay. He has shown to be remorseful for his actions, and hasn’t made anywhere close to the same mistakes in years.

To be fair, I get you not wanting to support him personally. I think it’s harsh, but as a public figure the decisions a person makes have larger consequences than a normal person. However, I don’t think it makes sense to call him a nazi, or even a racist. It simply isn’t true at this point.

People can change. I’m sure there is something you have said in the past that you no longer agree with, and if everyone held it against you for the rest of your life you wouldn’t think it were fair.

If you don’t think people can change, and will hold a mistake someone made against them forever, even if they have apologized and changed, then I’m sorry, but based on your behaviour, I’d say you are a worse person then they are.

One thing about Linux: don’t let people bully you over which distro you use. This isn’t a competition, use what feels most natural to you. If Manjaro is too steep of a curve, start somewhere else. Not everyone needs to be running arch. If you want to use arch but want it easier, I had an easier time with endeavor os than with manjaro, but ymmv. If I were you, I’d use the easiest distro out there: mint. If you are a big gamer, PopOS has a lot of gaming support right out of the box, but these days if you are primarily on Steam then you shouldn’t hit too many issues in any distro.

I am also mid transition, but haven’t booted windows in over a year. I tried dual-access storage, and I think your best bet is to keep the two systems separate. There are ways to make it work, but they are not beginner friendly imo.

As for mods, it is really hit or miss. And kernel level anticheat is a blocker in Linux, so any games that require it will not be playable. But what I do is have a single-drive windows machine that has the software that doesn’t have Linux support installed, and boot into it when I need it. But I’ve actually found linux-friendly replacements for all the stuff I personally use, and will probably never touch the windows system again.