Shall AnduinOS provide system level AI features?

[Anduin2017]

Nowadays, the market is flooded with messages like “AI is the future,” and it seems that every engineer is developing agents or fine-tuning prompts. Many companies, having entered the field late, have almost been disrupted by the market. It feels like a storm sweeping across every industry.

Currently, AnduinOS remains a clean canvas: by default, it is relatively easy to use, while keeping a low profile, staying quiet, and allowing users the freedom to customize and build on top of it.

In the future, would the community expect AnduinOS to integrate some system-level AI features?

For example, having a conversational assistant, and allowing applications to register certain AI capabilities?

Or should it continue to be a canvas, where users who want these features can install something like Cursor themselves, or chat with GenMini in the browser?

[ireeus]

I think it should be optional during installation. Give a choice for those who would want to use i or not. When enabled it should allow at least scan all documents so the user can ask questions regarding them. I think this functionality can be achieved already with some scripts

[macdaddyaz20]

I disagree when you can download it from gnome software.

[macdaddyaz20]

Anything we can’t provide support for third party apps should only be optional and not included in the OS. It will only create headaches for anduinOS developers and users will be disappointed at you that they need to contact the developers for those apps. We can’t afford to end up like Gnome.

[JAM-92]

Doesn't Anduin GNOME too?

[Pato51]

Copilot, we want copilot

[stardate4196]

Clean canvas please! As a recent refugee from Microsoft I would be disappointed to see this (or any) pristine new Linux OS go down a path of enshittification. Imho AI is not the future, but it has a place to enhance and amplify human creativity and potential. So please lets keep this lovely OS light without bloat or telemetry and optionally allow those who need AI to install it on top of the OS.

[JAM-92]

I agree with you, but I think a button to ask simple questions to an open-source AI model like Mistral could be beneficial.

I often want to ask questions like: 'When was the Abbey Road album by the Beatles released?'
or: 'What are synonyms to the word ,,Presumably´ in English?

AI is a great tool to get quick guidance, and answers to start a web-search or lookup quick facts.

[stardate4196]

Sure, that would be nice...but, as it happens far too often, convenince comes at a cost.

Even though its open-source, the Mistral free version trains its AI with user data as stated in their privacy policy.

Granted, to some folks this may not be a big deal, but to some who are privacy-conscious, embedding a connection to an external AI in an operating system would be a dealbraker.

Now, if a Linux distro can embed Ollama or AnythingLLM (for example) with a few popular quantised models for internal AI, that would be a different story. Although that too would be convenience vs cost, since the download file size of the distro would go up significantly.

[JAM-92]

I would love to see a small prompt box on the taskbar or pop-up window in the taskbar to ask simple questions routed to an open-source AI model like Mistral. Just to ask those little language questions, or about that new TV show you forgot the name of.

If Anduin is set to be a worthy replacement for Windows 11, AI as a assistant with 'coding' should be the least of the developers worries. Windows users, like I was, don't want to code anything, but just run 'OnlyOffice, Brave browser & a good email client, have a good calender app, library for pictures, and music player like Amberol´.