Now that Debian is embracing AI anyone have any anti-AI distro recommendations? (feddit.online)

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Been a long time Debian user but with the recent AI decision I am planning on moving on so anyone have an anti-AI recommendations? I understand its being used in the kernel as well but are there any distros taking a full anti-AI approach to the parts of the code they control?

Since folks seem a little confused on what I am referring to here is the mailing list page regarding the use of gen ai without disclosure vote: https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2026/08/msg00360.html

Phoronix article on it: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-Votes-Responsible-AI-Use

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[-] Sivecano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 hours ago

Gentoo?

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 hours ago

I'm not sure why you think Debian is embracing AI

They took a nuteral stance on it

[-] COASTER1921@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 hours ago

Given Debian's slow development and focus on stability above all else I doubt this will make any practical difference to contributions that actually end up in releases. And honestly at this point every OS or piece of software needs to have AI reviewing its codebase for vulnerabilities, even if it's not making any code contributions.

[-] buran@lemmy.today 2 points 10 hours ago

For the people who really don't want AI in their OS, check this.

No AI OSes

[-] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 0 points 9 hours ago

Ooh, that's one I hadn't seen. Thanks for sharing!

[-] AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip -2 points 6 hours ago

I am probably gonna ditch linux all together because the creator has been infected by genAI ( used LLM to heko debug, which is a big sin in my codebook ), so I have been trying NetBSD. I got it installed last night, but now I need to figure out how to get xfce4 to be default desktop environment I boot into.

Someone else listed a no-ai OS website, so I am gonna look into some of the other BSDs there as well.

[-] Epp@lemmus.org -1 points 5 hours ago

You may as well abandon life altogether, because life has been "infected" with reality.

[-] AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip 0 points 5 hours ago

And reality is shapes by our actions. We work hard enough and we may and genAI forever best case scenario. Worst I'll take is societal values equating genAI with CP levels of degeneracy and depravity.

[-] nyan@lemmy.cafe 2 points 14 hours ago

So . . . maybe it's a good thing that Gentoo with GNU Hurd exists? Does Hurd even have an AI policy?

[-] simpolomeo@piefed.blahaj.zone 12 points 23 hours ago

Arch, Void, Gentoo, Chimera and Aeryn all have anti-AI policies.

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[-] hexagonwin@lemmy.today 10 points 1 day ago

i wouldn't say they're "embracing AI" or 'sloppified'.. but anyway.

i think slackware isn't using llm stuff for development. it's my daily/fav distro. but it's quite different from debian.

[-] sbeak@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 day ago

I believe Fedora requires disclosure on the use of LLMs in contributions, and that fully generated submissions are not allowed, so slightly better than Debian in this respect (https://docs.fedoraproject.org/council/policy/ai-contribution-policy/)

Linux Mint is always a nice option, but I can't find an LLM policy for them, but given that they are removing snaps and other Ubuntu bits that nobody likes by default, I would imagine they are more resistant on LLM contributions. They don't have a policy set in place for this though.

Arch Linux (and derivatives, I currently use EndeavourOS but many like CachyOS too!) are awesome too if you are alright with rolling release. Again, no LLM policy I can find (I didn't look very hard though, I have better things to do), but I imagine they would be more resistant to it.