Why would they make a rural Chinese granny either go out and buy a new computer with preinatalled Linux or go learn how to do it herself, just so that it’s legal for her to call her relatives? Sounds a bit shortsighted to me.

Just get an oldish SFF or USFF office computer cheap somewhere. It’s generally much cheaper and allows for upgrades if ram/ssd prices ever come down. Also somewhat new Intel CPUs are quite good for transcoding.

While I completely agree with you, I think we should give him a break on this one. The man’s 85 after all.

Does it come with KDE preinstalled or is that just for the screenshot?

I’d love to give it a try on my secondary laptop as it sounds just great, but I really can’t stand KDE.

Edit: KDE is the only desktop available, but if I understand that correctly alternatives are on the roadmap?

You know that AI/ML is not only LLMs, right?

Is that just an Electron wrapper?

Edit: looking at the phoronix comments it seems to be. I really don’t get why they though this is even worth a twitter post. Just an inefficient wrapper for an even more inefficient text generator…