u/GloriousExtra

Fedora's main repository ships Krita's dev build, the beta of the Krita drawing app instead of the current 5.3 edition which is what is available on Flatpak. Is this something the maintainers decided to do? Because I checked out Krita's help forums, and there's no mention of running the beta as default on Fedora.

I prefer the repo version because it plays nicely with themes and permissions where the Flatpak can get a little picky.

Anyone else getting this?

I'm running Fedora 44 KDE.

https://preview.redd.it/2ziatum0bf0h1.jpg?width=1150&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=171469446c02194c3b940b95dbb689b24eb46ae2

https://preview.redd.it/y417izx4bf0h1.jpg?width=338&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9d10b3feaa9e9bcb3c3ce6b61473089d10dce263

So with the recent announcement of Canonical stating that they will be integrating Ai into the Ubuntu distro over this year (https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/the-future-of-ai-in-ubuntu/81130), I am now looking for a distro that has already stated they won't integrate Ai into their core system.

I saw a thread about 5 months old talking about this subject, but the answers there were along the lines of "Linux doesn't use Ai," and we know that's not true anymore. Some people say you can just remove it, but honestly, Mozilla is pulling this maneuver, and it's not helping their browser one bit. I don't want this garbage anywhere near my system.

When Microsoft was starting out with their own "Ai" plans, they also said it would be completely optional and we've seen how that's gone, haven't we? For some the pull of adding "Ai" into their distros may be too appealing because unfortunately it has become popular and they don't want to appear out of step with technology.

So are there any distros that will not use "Ai" and have said as much?

Also, to head off the inevitable question, I say "Ai" because what we're seeing isn't artificial intelligence, it's wasteful, empty headed, invasive slop. This isn't about spell checks and chess games, this is about LLMs that people think have some kind of actual intelligence despite it making people dumber over the long term.

That is what I mean by "Ai," and why I type it out that way.