Agreed.

Why not just have both internally?

I’m positive it’s because of people hating on AI, and while I don’t want AI in everything, it does have it’s uses. I use it for work to write delivery documents, but I give it very constrained operating parameters. It can be incredibly useful if you do.

Give it a persona: “Senior Software Developer” Give it truth parameters. “You must not assume. You must not hallucinate. Any information presented must be factual, and backed with documentary evidence using citations. Any information that can not be proven with citation, must be marked, and you must provide reasoning.” and so on and so on. I have a whole sheet of prompt shortcuts I use for different types of documentation based on target and subject.

I also read and fact check everything it produces. I follow every citation and verify it says what the AI thinks it does. I also do section by section. I don’t produce whole documents, I produce sections and compile them together later.

I treat it like a research assistant, not like something to do the work for me. I usually do a brain dump of random thoughts and things I know are important for the document I am working on, be it a collection of point forms, emails I receive, news articles, and so on.

AI has made my job more efficient, because I can pump out 30 pages in a day, where that used to take me a week. Especially since I can produce two documents, one for a non-technical C level, and one for a technical person at the same time.

The intention was sarcasm, because I felt it was better than my initial response of, “What a stupid take”.

As I originally said, it’s trivial, but someone always feels the need to come in and shit on everything.

Until a few months ago, I was a Windows user, and I had been since the 90s.

This was the method I used

https://chat.openai.com/?prompt=how+to+install+linux

You can do that without Windows. What is the benefit?

It’s trivial to make a USB bootable installer.

I don’t even think it could work. NT will bsod if the os drive disappears, so unless you install on a different drive or partition, the OS will die.

I wanted something with cutting edge. I like hardware upgrades. I also wanted something I could game on without a lot of fuss, because I was new to Linux. And not that it matters, because you can switch easily, I wanted KDE.

I ended up with Garuda. I’m pretty happy with it.

I’m glad I did choose something which keeps up with the kernel, because I was having power management issues and monitor issues on every other distro I tried before this one, and none of them affected me here. I’m pretty sure the combo or a newer kernel and Plasma 6.something is what did it.

My wife asked me last summer to switch her, because she didn’t like the news she was hearing about “recall” and being forced to have AI.

She is far from techie, but is over a year on Mint with no issues.

She actually switched before me, because I was distro hopping trying to find the right one for me, so I dual booted for a while. But I am 9 months on a single distro and happy to be rid of Windows.

I think you’re on to something. I have a 10 year old laptop with linux, 4 cores, 8gb of ram, a mechanical drive, and a win10 vm on it and it runs fine for it’s purpose.

OnlyOffice works with MSOffice files (100% compatibility is a stated goal), and it looks like MSOffice in terms of UI.

I even replaced MSOffice with it in Windows.

Controlled production is not the same thing as a subsidy. Canada controls supply. There is a quota system. No US dairy supplier ever uses their quota, so don’t get dinged with tariffs.

It is literally nothing.

That’s my answer too. I went a month with just trying to make basic things work. Had to go back to being productive. Now, I bought another drive and I spend time whenever I have it. Once everything works as i need it to, I’ll switch full time.