The Fedora Council has paused the Community Initiatives process, stating that the current framework no longer effectively supports identifying, discussing, and advancing major strategic efforts.
Importantly, already approved Community Initiatives will continue.
Going forward, the Fedora Council says it wants to develop a new mechanism for setting strategic direction in a more open and transparent way, with stronger community involvement earlier in the process.
Context: Fedora’s AI Developer Desktop Was Approved, Then Blocked. Here’s Why. & Heavy Community Backlash Blocks Fedora’s AI Developer Desktop Initiative
Seems like it is primarily a technical backlash about having to support another kernel branch for stability with proprietary nvidia drivers. A bit of pushback on AI branding. But also
Part of what made this blow up the way it did was a communications gap. Fabio Valentini of the FESCo noted that he only became aware the proposal was being voted on after stumbling across the council meeting on Matrix accidentally.
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According to the Fedora Council, the AI Developer Desktop proposal exposed deeper problems with the current process. The Council said the Community Initiatives framework has failed to provide a good space where new ideas can surface, receive respectful feedback, and gain support when they fit Fedora’s present or future direction.
As a first step, the Fedora Council will immediately pause the Community Initiatives process. This pause affects only the process, not overall Fedora development.
Sure reads like “we don’t care if the entire community is against it, we’re doing this anyway and there won’t be any new features until we finish”
the AI Developer Desktop proposal is closed under this process
Instead, the Fedora Council says that if the AI Desktop work matures, it can follow the existing path toward becoming an official Fedora offering. That would first require a Council ticket for trademark and branding approval, followed by a Fedora Change Proposal for technical review by FESCo. Until then, the proposal remains an independent exploration rather than an official Fedora offering.
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I was thinking to test fedora for some time … now i dont know I want to …
why? bevause they gave people an option that dorsnt affect anyone else?
why? bevause they gave people an option that dorsnt affect anyone else?
It always starts like this. I criticized the initial optional and ai features in Firefox. People said “oh its just this one time in the PDF” and so on. What happened? Mozilla added more and more Ai functionality, to a point where they had to integrate a kill switch because so many were bothered by. Also even if you disable all the features, it affects you in some way. Because now they will not integrate an alternative feature without the need of Ai. That means if you disable Ai, you miss out on features otherwise. And it takes lot of resources and development time from the team for stuff you don’t care.
Therefore I do not accept the defense of “it is optional, it does not affect you” for these various reasons I just outlined.
Its a sign of whats to come sooner or later. Look at ubuntu. I am using arch right now, loved ubuntu in the past, but that has became a shitshow to say the least. Now I wanted a changed and was looking heavily at fedora, but Im afraid i will settle down and It will end up with something from that project being integrated in the main distro. Idk just my thoughts.
I mean you can try it. I’ve used it briefly in the past but moved on from it because it’s a damn frustratingly opinionated distro with a community that gives the GNOME user/dev base a run for their money.
It works well enough. some things you really got to play with to get working on it. If you’re on Nvidia I’d just save yourself the headache and skip it. If you want a distro you can install and just completely forget about and just use flatpaks or whatever, yeah it’s good.
I’m on AMD, and yes right Noe I want a disteo with flatpacka I can just run and forget about haha :)
If you’re on Nvidia I’d just save yourself the headache and skip it
Just to offer a counter balance, my gaming desktop with Nvidia is running Fedora. Other than an weird issue with the mouse cursor - which was easily fixed - it has been working flawlessly.
so glad I abandoned that shithole of a distro when IBM started making anticonsumer changes.
If you don’t want the AI features don’t use them
I do want a good file system embedding plugin for semantic search, image categorization and content recognition, better OCR, etc. I can run all those locally for less energy than playing a video game and wasting zero water, but a good OS integration would be game changer.
There are definitely things to say against AI, but the anti-AI crowd can sometimes be incredibly short sighted and assholishly militant.
There are definitely things to say against AI, but the anti-AI crowd can sometimes be incredibly short sighted and assholishly militant.
I’d both-sides this except that one side has to constantly fix the other side’s mass-produced garbage-on-demand while their management continues to shrink the resources and time available to do both that and their own job.
Sure, you can responsibly use AI, and creating an environment for that would generally be a good thing. That ignores the reality of the world we live in though, and it’s easy to understand why people are exhausted over the artificial hype and want their spaces to remain untainted by it.
Part of the point is all about how a healthy community discusses and decides upon proposals. This effort to ram a deeply disdained, extractive capitalist creation into a Fedora Atomic Desktop version that basically violated some ethical choices that Fedora makes…Is part of the reason why it thankfully failed. It didn’t help that the people who held the vote actively avoided having a discussion involving the community, that is a Microslop tactic. Not an open source project’s tactic, it tells me a lot about the ethical soundness of what they were trying to accomplish. A healthy community is so much better than what AI Chuds want, always.
There are always other places the AI Chuds could go anyway, like Ubuntu or whatever cesspool infected itself with slop.
nope.
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Ai isnt going away.
Neither is global warming
It isnt. But the water is, your ram is, your CPU is, your GPU is, and your HDD/SDD is, your PERSONAL computer is, heck all that you have used of using as tech is as well because you will own nothing and you will be happy!
Agreed. But I feel like people are in denial that they can stop Ai. The surveillance aspect alone is keeping Ai alive for good.
If corporations are pushing it THAT hard… We regular people can’t do Jack shit.
Don’t care and I’ll hate it vocally and publicly till I die.
you wont be alone in this matter :)
Just like nfts!
