Hi. I’m neurodivergent and I love computers. I probably emotionally depend on them a lot besides other interests like art. FOSS and Linux world felt like home. I do not use(as little as possible) any proprietary(or related to AI in any way) software. I feel raw disgust towards those. I feel like all stability in life is gone now that Linus has AI “brainrot”. What can I even do? What can others do? “Fork it”? “Rewrite it”? Okay, I’ll wait like 35 years. But being serious I feel lost. BSD family doesn’t feel like a solution for me. Everything else is experimental at best. I’m certainly not touching Windows or Mac ever again. Should I consider running something like older Debian exclusively to at least “conserve” myself until solution comes up or things change? I almost never post, but I ask you, the digital void, for advice. I don’t want to feel this way.

  • Maki@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 month ago

    I would say Debian Stable works for most solutions. Debian has a slow enough update cycle that you can make it last for a while before any big changes happen, and even oldstable still gets security updates and backports. (Not sure about oldoldstable.)

    If you want to also stay away from Systemd and its madness, there’s always Devuan. There might be a way to even stay with X11 in the face of everyone pushing for Wayland. I used to use BunsenLabs (continuation of CrunchBang) because it uses Openbox on X11 and is otherwise based on Debian stable. Their latest full release was in February.

    Linux is, and should be, about having the choice to go for something which fits with your needs. Shopping around is always a good idea when you’re faced with weirdness. In my case I always just want something that ‘just works’, and my mess of a custom configured Debian works for me in that respect.

    I’m sincerely hoping the AI madness bubble bursts soon… People need to stop destroying things we all rely on just because they can “vibe code” something together.

    “Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should,” – Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum), Jurassic Park (1993)