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Chat GPT writes code! However it can't do the "change a letter in 5 word" game - it kept trying to change two letters

cereberus said:

I was on a site where the asinine bot kept going in circles unable to answer a simple question and it started being sarcastic when I asked it to answer my exact question where a yes or no answer was needed. lt started asking what part of its reply was unclear!

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it may have been one of them Indian AI bots with a keyboard that was getting upset.

best of luck, Steve ..

Sorry, cutting in for a sec then ducking out again as threads go in different directions w/o me. (Not good or bad, just a thing.)
On this one I apparently picked a good title as it has definite interesting lasting power where I put it.
Pure accident, trust me. No, I did not find any of this laughable - no rotflmao. Not looking for that anyway. To me it simply was/is what it was/is. The series of criticisms and attempted putdowns is simply, to me, de regeur. It simply IS - nothing more. It's when people go beyond that that the good stuff comes out. (line from Maggie Smith in a Dev Patel flick)
As to linux replacing win, there is simply too much inertia and things will remain sorta the same until something replaces them and we probably cannot conceive of that now.
Present AI as commented here seems mostly a threat to screenwriters, TV, movies, fantasy, dynamic RPG and other games, etc, ( and by threat, it may actually vastly improve areas that rely mostly on regurgitated themes to sell popcorn and AI does that better and faster),
but not at all to an operating system which like the old ARPA net (with HASP and ASP) could take in a stack of jobs, process it, and disperse the answers to the appropriate place. I don't think that will come from the likes of GROK, but from other directions that we are not seeing yet or are simply not being publicised.
So, the flavor of this keeps returning to AI and am finding pieces of that interesting. I hope this interjected comment does not dampen that direction. Later.
I think computers, (back before Greek times) were intended to do "work", Now they are mostly for entertainment, and AI really adds to what it can do with that.

I’m guessing you have a prescription for that whacky stuff you’re smoking?

Just poppin in & poppin out again.. poppin somethin.

Linux is and will always be the low hanging fruit.
Only thing I use Linux for is compiling firmware for my routers.

I actually found one good use for AI..., creating an album cover for some random track.

(It was Copilot, cuz Google Gemini puts a watermark on it!

KevTech said:

Linux is and will always be the low hanging fruit.
Only thing I use Linux for is compiling firmware for my routers.

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The Linux dynamics is changing and changing fast. For every week, month and year that passes it becomes more and more usable for mainstream computer users. The terminal days are becoming the past. More and more software vendors has started supporting all 3 major OSes (Win, Lnx and Mac) and I call that progress.

SlicEnDicE said:

The Linux dynamics is changing and changing fast. For every week, month and year that passes it becomes more and more usable for mainstream computer users. The terminal days are becoming the past. More and more software vendors has started supporting all 3 major OSes (Win, Lnx and Mac) and I call that progress.

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I've been playing with Fedora SilverBlue the CMD line doesn't even come in to it
the whole root file system is read only and everything installed is flatpak.

its an immutable system with atomic updates.
best of luck, Steve ..

This is the year of Linux on the desktop, along with every year I've heard that since I was in college in the late 20th century.

SlicEnDicE said:

The Linux dynamics is changing and changing fast. For every week, month and year that passes it becomes more and more usable for mainstream computer users.

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And yet the number of users does not climb from 2024 if anything it has went down slightly.

From Statcounter for Linux from January 2020 to June 2025.

Marcus Vinicus said:

From Statcounter for Linux from January 2020 to June 2025.

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Watch out! Linux is taking over the world!

jvickers said:

Watch out! Linux is taking over the world!

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By running on the same spot for years?

Marcus Vinicus said:

By running on the same spot for years?

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Well, it's a sloooow trendline...

cereberus said:

I was on a site where the asinine bot kept going in circles unable to answer a simple question and it started being sarcastic when I asked it to answer my exact question where a yes or no answer was needed. lt started asking what part of its reply was unclear!

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they started being a-holes and dems years ago... and if you said something like climate change is b.s. it would shut you down.. and turn it against you. evil people program it.

Linux isn't taking over the world. That's ridiculous. It's only getting more usable for novice users and therefore it can be an alternative.

What comes to Linux forums toxicity, go to another forum and DO READ the manuals. It's all in there, very well documented.

pseymour said:

This is the year of Linux on the desktop, along with every year I've heard that since I was in college in the late 20th century.

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isn't Android, which is Linux, already doing that.
most that i have talked to are upgrading their phones, including my son
there is no mention of even thinking about upgrading or replacing their PC, if they have one.

Windows works for most people much of the time
just that most of the up and coming generation do everything on their phone.

best of luck, Steve ..

You don't need a PC to take a selfie

XxXxX said:

isn't Android, which is Linux, already doing that.
most that i have talked to are upgrading their phones, including my son
there is no mention of even thinking about upgrading or replacing their PC, if they have one.

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1) “Year of Linux on the Desktop” has been a phrase since the 90s.
2) Did I say phones?

There's even an official countdown clock!
Year of the Linux Desktop