They should be freaking out because we shouldn’t be allowing it at all. Beyond the ethical and legal implications for an open source project, there’s also the outsized environmental impact of every single prompt because of the data centers required to host these LLMs. It’s not good.

Again, you (and the people freaking out) are missing the point : it's not a question of being pro or anti AI. AI is here, it's being used, and neither Fedora nor ANY project, open-source or not, have the means to enforce or forbid the use of AI from their contributors. Just like : if I build a chair, there's no way to know I used a saw of brand X or Y.

I mean, what would you have them do ? Requiring the installation of a spyware on the contributors' computers and manually review recorded videos to make sure the coder never used an AI ever ? Who would take the time to view those videos ? Who would spy on the coders ? What if the project has several contributors, or if the contributor used another person's work, like, for example, dependencies or external libraries ? How do you check that ?

Again, and finally. I'm not making a pro-AI speech, your concerns are perfectly valid. But your expectations are unrealistic and unfeasible.

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Hmmm... Seems some of you guys are completely misunderstanding the stance of Fedora on AI ? :/

What they've done is basically acknowledging the fact that it's impossible to check whether their contributors are using AI or not in their developments. So they're doing the only reasonable thing about it : officially allowing people to use it.

And since most developers already use AI, whether it's simple auto-complete agents in IDEs or problem-solving agents, their decision has little impact whatsoever. They wouldn't have a way to enforce an anti-AI policy. It's not even a matter of pro VS anti AI debate.

And STILL people are freaking out about it. For like... no reason ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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I have mixed feelings about it.

On one hand, it has definitely been a game changer for me and quite a lot of other players too. I'm no longer shy to suggest Linux for gamers, provided they manage their expectations and read ProtonDB before. I haven't booted on Windows for about a year now, and don't feel the need to. Performance is getting really good too. I'm quite happy with using Proton, either through Steam or Lutris with GE-Proton which deserves mentioning.

On the other hand, it has completely obliterated any chance we'd ever have native ports ever again, and I'm not even sure it has given Linux more visibility in the eyes of greedy companies. It might even become counter-productive the day Unity decides Linux is no longer worth the (already meager) effort, or even hamper any efforts some game devs had about learning Linux.

I can't help but get pissed off when companies drop Linux support and say "we're focusing on Proton instead", where that usually means they'll give an intern 2 hours to check the game launches on it.

It's not Proton's fault, but it paints a very grim picture of the industry as a whole : most companies are not ready to do ANY effort to support Linux, even when it comes down to clicking on a checkbox before packaging their game to enable Easy Anti Cheat for Proton.

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Also, there's a little-known fork named Augustus ( https://github.com/Keriew/augustus [External Link] ), which is almost synced with Julius, and specialized in adding QOL and other features on top of the game.

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A fantastic project.

I was using the version from their PPA a few years ago, then switched to Flatpak when I came to Fedora. No particular issues encountered.

If there are people interested in modding the game including shaders and all sorts of graphical stuff, I kinda inspired myself from a list published here, which covers a lot of things : https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vTWfHcdX5HXdpZj9R9KOcRYo0V80aGIAVd8tbrqTzC-J4R7ZeBdMslgdDlBGdTmvyF874qqaVY8V9VN/pubhtml [External Link]

Also, the LUA modding capabilities that OpenMW come with are insane, and allows things Oblivion-style Lockpicking ( like https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/56355 [External Link] ). Not a huge fan of this one but it demonstrates what's possible to do with the engine nowadays.

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Thank goodness this was withdrawn. However the reputation damage that was done to Fedora is likely irreparable. This proposal couldn't have come at a worse time, with Windows 10 support ending in a few months. So many people were worried they had to switch to another Linux distro if half of their games and Steam stopped working

I'm relieved it was, too. Switched to Fedora like a year ago because I was fed of Ubuntu snap-nonsense, and I've been nothing but amazed with how well Fedora works.

While I agree with you on the poor timing and the overall bad idea, I hopefully can't really imagine that proposal would do any kind of reputation damage to Fedora though. It was the initiative of 3 people, and again, just a proposal.

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Also fixed the Battle.net launcher that had stopped working a few weeks ago when launched through Lutris :)

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Wow, that's totally unexpected news! Turn-based might be a good reason to do it again. I enjoyed fighting in Pillars 2 way more thanks to that.

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Never had a problem with Lutris. At least the packaged version from the Fedora repos.

What do you mean by "game-libraries" ?

Anyway, glad to see the project continue to evolve.

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Not gonna lie, considering Nintendo's recent behaviour, my heart skipped a beat when I read the first words of the title.

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