Both Ubuntu and Fedora have made it official: support is coming soon for running local generative AI instances.
An epic and still-growing thread in the Fedora forums states one of the goals for the next version: the Fedora AI Developer Desktop Objective. It is causing some discontent, and at least one Fedora contributor, SUSE’s Fernando Mancera, has resigned.
Of using resources to implement a “feature” that users have already expressed they don’t want? Weird, I do.
The users would be the people who choose to install the new system image. The system image which will be created by a group of people who volunteer to create it.
If you’re not using the new system image then this doesn’t affect you at all.
The only opinions that matter here are the ones of the people who are choosing to donate their time to the project. If you think that more development time should be allocated to one project over another then you are free to volunteer your time in order to make that happen.
You are not free to volunteer the time of other people, however.