This is a continuation of this mailing list thread about "fully LLM-generated merge requests, preserved at https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-devel/2026-September/004496.html There, I proposed...
Putting shit in your food is OK as long as it is only a little bit of shit and you can’t immediately taste it.
this is why the “year of the linux desktop” is never going to happen. This past year, hell the past few months, have shown why it won’t happen. The Linux community is divided and will never agree with each other.
On the one side you have people who are anti-AI and advocates for pure FOSS. generally this is the user. On the other side you have people who are open to AI, or straight up pro AI and while they are all about FOSS will never hesitate to accept money for their projects. This is pretty much the devs and maintainers.
So it’s not going to happen and if anything is going to drive the current userbase away from Linux and embrace a new userbase that simply either doesn’t care or is unaware. Look at Omarchy. that’s exactly their target demographic. As for the current userbase when the options become more and more limited then where do you go? to one of the BSDs? Haiku? something else? The problem is a fully embraced AI ecosystem is a sloppy one. After reading that Omarchy “made” their own kernel last night I decided to install that on an SSD to check out. I lasted all of 30minutes before I wiped the drive. It’s a mess. an absolute mess. But it’s one that is being embraced by a group that many current linux users don’t agree with and that userbase is growing, and growing quickly.
I’m in the process of ditching linux. It’s not for me anymore. it’s not fun anymore. and while people can say “well just ignore the politics behind whatever project and just use whatever you want” that might be easy for some people with weak morals and ethics but I’m not like that. I can’t. so I won’t.
And to go back to your last point of “what to use” I currently starting to daily drive OpenBSD using CTWM. not great, but it works for what I need. It’s a sad state of affairs that in the current landscape I have to go back to a WM from the early 90s that I KNOW won’t be vibecoded any time soon if at all.
this is why the “year of the linux desktop” is never going to happen. This past year, hell the past few months, have shown why it won’t happen. The Linux community is divided and will never agree with each other.
On the one side you have people who are anti-AI and advocates for pure FOSS. generally this is the user. On the other side you have people who are open to AI, or straight up pro AI and while they are all about FOSS will never hesitate to accept money for their projects. This is pretty much the devs and maintainers.
So it’s not going to happen and if anything is going to drive the current userbase away from Linux and embrace a new userbase that simply either doesn’t care or is unaware. Look at Omarchy. that’s exactly their target demographic. As for the current userbase when the options become more and more limited then where do you go? to one of the BSDs? Haiku? something else? The problem is a fully embraced AI ecosystem is a sloppy one. After reading that Omarchy “made” their own kernel last night I decided to install that on an SSD to check out. I lasted all of 30minutes before I wiped the drive. It’s a mess. an absolute mess. But it’s one that is being embraced by a group that many current linux users don’t agree with and that userbase is growing, and growing quickly.
I’m in the process of ditching linux. It’s not for me anymore. it’s not fun anymore. and while people can say “well just ignore the politics behind whatever project and just use whatever you want” that might be easy for some people with weak morals and ethics but I’m not like that. I can’t. so I won’t.
And to go back to your last point of “what to use” I currently starting to daily drive OpenBSD using CTWM. not great, but it works for what I need. It’s a sad state of affairs that in the current landscape I have to go back to a WM from the early 90s that I KNOW won’t be vibecoded any time soon if at all.