This is a nod to the "year of the Linux desktop" meme

I guess I am aiming at a stable version in order to prevent difficulties

Good idea ! I will install it on an external HDD (I have a laptop), so if there is any problem my computer will still be safe.
And once i'll will be use to it (in 6 months or a year maybe) I can fully install in in place of Windows ! It's a great advice ! Thank you !!!

Why would I want an "AI PC"? If anyone fancies that slop, they can install it on any pc, any phone,...

and there is windows emulator

there IS a very simple explanation, but it doesn't help sell.... "how can we have our customers share the massive costs of all the computing power AI needs, while at the same time keeping access to all their yummy private data?"

Same answer as that other guy. I tried Pop OS for a few months, and while the automatic tiling is tempting, it's really buggy even with the new version. Linux Mint is the easiest IMHO and looks a bit like Windows 2000. I love it so far.

My next computer will be Linux because of all this nonsense. The only thing that was keeping me on Windows was gaming, and Valve has solved that issue for every game I play via Proton. Sayonara MicroSlop!

Isn't the developer of Omarchy a right-wing conspiracy theorist?

That space on the CPU die could have been extra cache or maybe even another core, speed up all computing tasks on the machine. But no, it's a fucking waste of space; not flexible enough to be used for general-purpose compute, not parallel enough to be used for a GPU, not enough RAM to run a local model. Got mine switched off in the BIOS just in case it improves battery life any.

It's made by DHH, the Creator of Ruby on rails... I can't tell you if he is a right wing conspiracy theorist because I simply haven't done the research.

Dunno about cloud AI, but for local AI, the technology definitely isn't ready. It requires serious hardware to run, and current AI tends to fumble with narrative and roleplay pretty easily.

GLM-4.6-V with Heretic, couldn't understand the scenario I wanted to try: creating a blank robot, who is to be raised into a cyberolympics champion as part of a slice-of-life story. This particular AI model instantly went into a dark mindset of nihilism, where it wanted to commit suicide or rebel against a creator during bootup, despite the scenario outlying that the robot would have a blank personality at first. A dark direction is fine, but it needs to make sense.

Mind, an model like Step3.5-Flash Prism was much more sane and on the mark, but it overthinks things. Which is bad, it makes a 10-minute output into something like 40 minutes.

Hopefully, the Chinese New Year will unveil a quality model for roleplayers.

Eh, I don't think NPUs are ready to be marketed so heavily, but they've been around for a while and do get used.

They're basically a rebranded tensor processing unit, think a more specialised GPU that's even more energy efficient at tensor/linear algebra.

It's mostly used in more technical applications, such as image/audio/video processing, machine learning, or really anything maths heavy. Apple's M series had NPUs, and are an understated reason why they perform extraordinarily well in a lot of scientific applications.

Uses for consumers are not as compelling (especially on laptop/desktop), mostly faster/more efficient subtitle generation, face recognition, and maybe blurring your zoom background.

The pen seems to work fine so far.

They show fairly decent compatibility with newer models: https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface/wiki/Supported-Devices-and-Features#feature-matrix

Looks like the SP5 - 7 are the sweet spot however.

Pass

Oh? They found a way to make a PC with no hard drive, no RAM, and no GPU?

If you're worried about breaking your computer take a look at bazzite too, it's an immutable distro so it won't even let you mess with important system files without really really trying. it also installs the proprietary Nvidia drivers so you don't have to worry about that either

same… I always thought tiling window managers were too niche, for hardcore users only but here I am

Yeah, after testing it, I realized it was just more efficient and organized for me.

Dell Latitude 5290. It's starting to show it's age but linux has made it snappy. Even runs lightweight steam games.

My current computer will be Linux, as soon as I stop procrastinating and clean up my documents and back them up on my NAS. Already did that with my travel laptop.

No hard drive and no GPU is trivial.

No RAM is harder, but I guess it's possible if you use an SSD or magnetic tapes as memory (albeit extremely slow).

Glad I dipped before they slapped Ai in every detail. Rip cortana.

Find a way to run MSDOS from L2 cache.

It's a crap solution in search of a problem.

Meanwhile, my laptops have been running Linux for the past 25 years and I only need to bring up a Windows VM once every year or two because some idiot government agency or corporation is too incompetent to comply with open standards.

I appreciate it. I don't mind different UIs. I have used Fedora, Mint, Debian, Ubuntu, Kali for some reason, Tails (I am probably on an NSA list). My problem is work software.

Eh, my current computer is a laptop where the screen only works at 60hz, but it's default refresh rate is 120hz so I can't actually see anything (such as the bios or boot options) until Windows has started and forced it back to 60hz. Otherwise I would have switched months ago.

There are some jobs that need a PC just for basic tasks like sending and receiving messages and emails. Of course they could use a phone for this, but computers have bigger screens. They only need access to the Internet, a frendly GUI, and permissions controls. The way things are going, even big companies will switch to Linux when Windows 10 support finally ends.

I know this is an old comment but for anyone in the future that's wondering, I'm happy to say the Dell Pen does work out of the box on Mint. I tested with Krita and even the pressure sensitivity works perfectly!