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Tips for a new Linux user (kbin.social)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Hello!

I've bought new parts and I am awaiting their arrival so I can build my brand new computer. I've decided to go for Arch Linux with KDE plasma or perhaps Gnome as my desktop environment but that's as far as I've come.

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/Xw4sRv

I figured I would ask the community if they have any tips or suggestions, thanks!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

An AI search is your friend.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I don't know about this. In my experience with ChatGPT was really bad, at least for programming. Asking about libraries, it started to allucinate and invent some APIs. Also with working with a REST API from GitHub, it started making up endpoints.
So, specially for a begginer, I'd say that better go with the other popular resources (ArchWiki and Server Fault)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

And you can expect this to possibly get worse. I remember seeing a post about how AI is now having trouble obtaining good quality image data because the internet has become saturated with AI generated art. I imagine text content is even worse. I've already seen several news articles lambasting a few lawyers for referring to non-existent cases.

The bottom line is that ChatGPT and other AIs don't understand what they are writing. They are just stringing words together by association with keywords. It's writing convincing sounding fiction about the real world. The fact that you can get things like vaguely working code out of it is just a happy accident.

At best, AI it should be seen as an idea generator. It requires that the person be skeptical of whatever is output.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

There's some bots out there just spamming this "advice" for some reason. It's an insane thing to suggest.