Smart AI developers ...
https://www.phoronix.com/review/ryzen-ai-linux-os
A distro from AMD focusing on "AI" development using
their spandy-new processors.
Available as an installation option, along with Windows. Smart
AI developers will go with the leader and choose Linux, natch.
On 2026-07-07, vallor <vallor@vallor.earth> wrote:
https://www.phoronix.com/review/ryzen-ai-linux-os
A distro from AMD focusing on "AI" development using
their spandy-new processors.
Available as an installation option, along with Windows. Smart
AI developers will go with the leader and choose Linux, natch.
Ugh. That's one distribution I'll never try.
On 2026-07-07, vallor <vallor@vallor.earth> wrote:
https://www.phoronix.com/review/ryzen-ai-linux-os
A distro from AMD focusing on "AI" development using
their spandy-new processors.
Available as an installation option, along with Windows. Smart
AI developers will go with the leader and choose Linux, natch.
Ugh. That's one distribution I'll never try.
On 2026-07-10 3:23 a.m., RonB wrote:
On 2026-07-07, vallor <vallor@vallor.earth> wrote:
https://www.phoronix.com/review/ryzen-ai-linux-os
A distro from AMD focusing on "AI" development using
their spandy-new processors.
Available as an installation option, along with Windows. Smart
AI developers will go with the leader and choose Linux, natch.
Ugh. That's one distribution I'll never try.
Just about everyone has decided that they will go in the direction of
AI. Bryan Lunduke posted a video from the offices of Microsoft,
presumably demonstrating what the next, AI-focused, operating system
would be like. Essentially, applications would be a thing of the past because everything would run withing Edge. <https:// lunduke.substack.com/p/microsofts-project-aion-ai-desktop>
It's a nightmare, but that's what Microsoft and the H1B Indians that replaced hard-working Americans working there are going to try to sell
you next.
On 2026-07-10 3:23 a.m., RonB wrote:
On 2026-07-07, vallor <vallor@vallor.earth> wrote:
https://www.phoronix.com/review/ryzen-ai-linux-os
A distro from AMD focusing on "AI" development using their spandy-new
processors.
Available as an installation option, along with Windows. Smart AI
developers will go with the leader and choose Linux, natch.
Ugh. That's one distribution I'll never try.
Just about everyone has decided that they will go in the direction of
AI. Bryan Lunduke posted a video from the offices of Microsoft,
presumably demonstrating what the next, AI-focused, operating system
would be like. Essentially, applications would be a thing of the past
because everything would run withing Edge. <https://lunduke.substack.com/p/microsofts-project-aion-ai-desktop>
It's a nightmare, but that's what Microsoft and the H1B Indians that
replaced hard-working Americans working there are going to try to sell
you next.
On Fri, 10 Jul 2026 07:29:57 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:
On 2026-07-10 3:23 a.m., RonB wrote:
On 2026-07-07, vallor <vallor@vallor.earth> wrote:
https://www.phoronix.com/review/ryzen-ai-linux-os
A distro from AMD focusing on "AI" development using their spandy-new
processors.
Available as an installation option, along with Windows. Smart AI
developers will go with the leader and choose Linux, natch.
Ugh. That's one distribution I'll never try.
Just about everyone has decided that they will go in the direction of
AI. Bryan Lunduke posted a video from the offices of Microsoft,
presumably demonstrating what the next, AI-focused, operating system
would be like. Essentially, applications would be a thing of the past
because everything would run withing Edge.
<https://lunduke.substack.com/p/microsofts-project-aion-ai-desktop>
It's a nightmare, but that's what Microsoft and the H1B Indians that
replaced hard-working Americans working there are going to try to sell
you next.
I finished Nadella's book 'Hit Refresh'. It was interesting if at times self-promotional. Note that it was published in 2017. In the final
chapters he lays out his vision of the future, AI, mixed reality, and
quantum computing all cloud based.
Times change. His example of where AI was going was Cortana, that
Microsoft took out behind the barn and shot about 5 years ago to be
replaced by CoPilot. Same idea, I guess, although Cortana never approached Alexa's popularity. Amazon is still trying to monetize that one. Alexa was supposed to be primarily used to order stuff from Amazon, not turn the
lights on and cue up your playlist. It has been a net loss so far.
For mixed reality he talked about HoloLens. I don't know if it's still available. The smart glasses type devices may become more popular but they're not mixed reality. I'm not a gamer but I don't think headsets like the Quest series are the mixed reality he envisioned either.
As for quantum computing maybe some distant day.
He does address job displacement by AI at length and suggests humans can
be retrained for meaningful, productive jobs augmented by AI. That's where
my cynicism kicks in. Nadella and his wife come from upper middle class Indian families and his entire career has been in well educated circles.
He hasn't had much experience with the chaiwala who is at the extent of
his abilities to make tea.
Still he was what Microsoft needed. He looked around in 2008. Amazon was building out the AWS cloud infrastructure and MS had nothing. Google was cornering the search engine revenue; MS had nada. Windows Mobile wasn't
going anywhere. The fiefdoms were entrenched and wanted to stay with
business as usual even though it was going down fast.
He also tried to steer them away from the Ballmer approach. He mentions getting up at one conference and pulling out an iPhone. Gasps. Then he
shows the applications loaded on the phone are all Microsoft. Can't beat them, join them.
I don't have a crystal ball but I am aware many people will be dragged
into the future kicking and screaming.
However, the transition to "you'll do nothing but tell artificial intelligence what to do for you" doesn't make computing better. Yes, I'm impressed by the images artificial intelligence can create and even more
by the videos it manages to produce from nothing, but the knowledge that humans are no longer the ones being created with such production bothers
me immensely.
On 2026-07-10 3:23 a.m., RonB wrote:
On 2026-07-07, vallor <vallor@vallor.earth> wrote:
https://www.phoronix.com/review/ryzen-ai-linux-os
A distro from AMD focusing on "AI" development using
their spandy-new processors.
Available as an installation option, along with Windows. Smart
AI developers will go with the leader and choose Linux, natch.
Ugh. That's one distribution I'll never try.
Just about everyone has decided that they will go in the direction of
AI. Bryan Lunduke posted a video from the offices of Microsoft,
presumably demonstrating what the next, AI-focused, operating system
would be like. Essentially, applications would be a thing of the past because everything would run withing Edge.
<https://lunduke.substack.com/p/microsofts-project-aion-ai-desktop>
It's a nightmare, but that's what Microsoft and the H1B Indians that replaced hard-working Americans working there are going to try to sell
you next.
On 2026-07-10 3:42 p.m., rbowman wrote:
On Fri, 10 Jul 2026 07:29:57 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:
On 2026-07-10 3:23 a.m., RonB wrote:
On 2026-07-07, vallor <vallor@vallor.earth> wrote:
https://www.phoronix.com/review/ryzen-ai-linux-os
A distro from AMD focusing on "AI" development using their spandy-new >>>>> processors.
Available as an installation option, along with Windows. Smart AI
developers will go with the leader and choose Linux, natch.
Ugh. That's one distribution I'll never try.
Just about everyone has decided that they will go in the direction of
AI. Bryan Lunduke posted a video from the offices of Microsoft,
presumably demonstrating what the next, AI-focused, operating system
would be like. Essentially, applications would be a thing of the past
because everything would run withing Edge.
<https://lunduke.substack.com/p/microsofts-project-aion-ai-desktop>
It's a nightmare, but that's what Microsoft and the H1B Indians that
replaced hard-working Americans working there are going to try to sell
you next.
I finished Nadella's book 'Hit Refresh'. It was interesting if at times
self-promotional. Note that it was published in 2017. In the final
chapters he lays out his vision of the future, AI, mixed reality, and
quantum computing all cloud based.
Times change. His example of where AI was going was Cortana, that
Microsoft took out behind the barn and shot about 5 years ago to be
replaced by CoPilot. Same idea, I guess, although Cortana never approached >> Alexa's popularity. Amazon is still trying to monetize that one. Alexa was >> supposed to be primarily used to order stuff from Amazon, not turn the
lights on and cue up your playlist. It has been a net loss so far.
For mixed reality he talked about HoloLens. I don't know if it's still
available. The smart glasses type devices may become more popular but
they're not mixed reality. I'm not a gamer but I don't think headsets like >> the Quest series are the mixed reality he envisioned either.
As for quantum computing maybe some distant day.
He does address job displacement by AI at length and suggests humans can
be retrained for meaningful, productive jobs augmented by AI. That's where >> my cynicism kicks in. Nadella and his wife come from upper middle class
Indian families and his entire career has been in well educated circles.
He hasn't had much experience with the chaiwala who is at the extent of
his abilities to make tea.
Still he was what Microsoft needed. He looked around in 2008. Amazon was
building out the AWS cloud infrastructure and MS had nothing. Google was
cornering the search engine revenue; MS had nada. Windows Mobile wasn't
going anywhere. The fiefdoms were entrenched and wanted to stay with
business as usual even though it was going down fast.
He also tried to steer them away from the Ballmer approach. He mentions
getting up at one conference and pulling out an iPhone. Gasps. Then he
shows the applications loaded on the phone are all Microsoft. Can't beat
them, join them.
I don't have a crystal ball but I am aware many people will be dragged
into the future kicking and screaming.
I don't doubt that Nadella has a better vision of the future than I do,
but that doesn't mean that I'm going to allow to have my own life
changed by what he believes the future should and will be. The
transition from the command line to the GUI was an easy one when I was a teenager since DOS couldn't multitask and I spent a lot of time
wondering how much fun it would have been to use an Amiga or a Mac.
Adding the Internet to my computing experience was also a welcome
transition as it was a natural evolution of hanging out on bulletin
board systems. However, the transition to "you'll do nothing but tell artificial intelligence what to do for you" doesn't make computing
better. Yes, I'm impressed by the images artificial intelligence can
create and even more by the videos it manages to produce from nothing,
but the knowledge that humans are no longer the ones being created with
such production bothers me immensely.
On 2026-07-10, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
On 2026-07-10 3:23 a.m., RonB wrote:
On 2026-07-07, vallor <vallor@vallor.earth> wrote:
https://www.phoronix.com/review/ryzen-ai-linux-os
A distro from AMD focusing on "AI" development using their spandy-new
processors.
Available as an installation option, along with Windows. Smart AI
developers will go with the leader and choose Linux, natch.
Ugh. That's one distribution I'll never try.
Just about everyone has decided that they will go in the direction of
AI. Bryan Lunduke posted a video from the offices of Microsoft,
presumably demonstrating what the next, AI-focused, operating system
would be like. Essentially, applications would be a thing of the past
because everything would run withing Edge. >><https://lunduke.substack.com/p/microsofts-project-aion-ai-desktop>
It's a nightmare, but that's what Microsoft and the H1B Indians that
replaced hard-working Americans working there are going to try to sell
you next.
Oh well. The "whole world" can go to the AI crap. I won't be joining
them.
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