The choice isn’t uncomfortable. It’s a need for a hard fork from Linus that’s always been present, and now is just more obvious because 2026 really is the year of mainstream FOSS OS use.
Ok great.
So fork it yourself.
If you can’t handle progress, then you shouldn’t force everyone else to comply.
Even Linus knows how the real world works.
I would like to see both anti-AI and “slop 'em up!” forks of Linux, mostly to see which one fails first.
My hypothesis is that the anti-AI one would fail first because the slop-em-up one would end up with bots just copying a bunch of fixes from mainline Linux.
Haiku, anyone?
Are you asking for a poem, or suggesting the BeOS based OS?
I’m suggesting the BeOS successor.
Thank you for clarifying. It needs better software, but I used Haiku as a primary OS for a month a few years back. I was able to dig out old games and play them, so no major complaints here.
I think you’ll find that even distros that are generally anti-AI and don’t allow its use in their own projects are pragmatic about not being able to influence other people’s software (for instance, Gentoo’s AI policy flat-out states that it doesn’t prohibit packaging AI-coded or AI-related software, although there’s been some discussion about marking it so that the user can make an informed decision).
