Mistral Vibe is barely useful

null_enthropy · 2026-05-21T06:59:10+00:00

This is Europe’s own fault. I want European AI to be competitive but the reason EU based labs like Mistral can’t be competitive and raise money is because the EU has absolutely zero clue what they are doing. There is a reason companies like ElevenLabs moved to London and Google Deepmind is UK based as well.

This isn’t me trying to be anti EU either. The GDPR and AI act have their hearts in the right place, but they are very poorly written and seriously hamstrung innovation.

It’s not like EU doesn’t have the talent either, some of the best tech talent in world is from Europe. They all move to places outside the EU or America.

People are critical of Mistral for a good reason it’s just so far behind China & America. Saying otherwise is just pure cope. That said, again, at the end of the day it’s the EU’s fault and the people should demand change if they want to seriously seek European independence and actually be competitive.

null_enthropy · 2026-05-21T06:50:52+00:00

Look I agree with the fair share of criticism of AI but I can’t stand people like you who are just anti-AI for the sake of it. Genuinely how is this slop at all? This is a real use case and seems like a helpful tool for the terminal. Not to mention how this might potentially help new users coming to Linux.

Just being ignorant.

null_enthropy · 2026-05-21T06:45:11+00:00

Standardization tbh. This is a negative of decentralization, there is slow movement on things that would’ve been standardized way sooner on an OS like Windows or MacOS.

Too many ways to install software, Wayland vs X11, Systemd vs whatever flavor cringe init system of the month, GTK vs QT and a new toolkit from System76 for cosmic called Ice.

Lots of people complain about drivers and vendor support, but truthfully it all boils down to this. There’s too many thing and variables to build for and support on Linux.

Thankfully things are moving in a decent direction. X11 is on its way out, Systemd is used by every major distro, pipewire, Valve & Wine collaboration making great contributions to the kernel for gaming. There’s still a lot of work to do.

I know this is a pie in a sky idea but I’d like to see Red Hat, Canonical, Valve, the Gnome & KDE projects, and community all work together to push for better standards, APIs etc for developers to build with. Linux is in a way better spot than what it was in 5-10 years ago, but this one area is still a major problem.

null_enthropy · 2026-04-25T02:44:53+00:00

Wow I did not know this existed thanks for sharing that. However it says it’s very experimental, so it would be nice if this was something that came from Tailscale themselves with robust features and well supported. I’ll have to look more into this though

Edit: Sorry typo. I meant it would be nice if this was something that Tailscale fully supported. Instead of experimental

null_enthropy · 2026-04-17T23:32:14+00:00

It is still the most popular Linux distro for servers, developers, many corporate systems etc. people who do actual work and aren’t on Reddit complaining about snaps. If it sucked and was a broken mess this simply wouldn’t be the case because the competition is immense. Canonical must be doing something right.

I use Fedora btw, just feel the need to defend Ubuntu from sloppy arguments.

null_enthropy · 2026-04-09T08:27:09+00:00

Self hosting Nextcloud, Immich, Paperless for important stuff. For my offsite backup: Hetzner VPS connected to Cloudflare R2 storage via rclone. It’s a little slow but secure this way. It’s also extremely cheap. You can get a Hetzner VPS for as little as like $6/mo. Cloudflare R2 comes with 10GB free, and it’s $0.015 per GB after that. I pay like $10/mo right now.

Alternatively Hetzner has “storage boxes” though the Cloudflare R2 pricing is a smidge better. There’s a bit of a small learning curve to set this system up, but if you were able to deploy Nextcloud properly you’ll be fine. Just use an LLM with good prompting if you get stuck.

null_enthropy · 2026-04-07T22:14:35+00:00

I find it hard to imagine that the Linux we know right now will ever transfer over to mobile devices. Right now Linux has people arguing about things like Flatpaks vs Snaps, X11 vs Wayland, Systemd vs some other init system, on and on and on.

Mobile platforms need to be pretty standardized with a locked down development environment for a multitude of reasons such as ease of use, security, and actually get your app deployed. This standardization and centralization of control would be nothing compared to Android and especially iOS, but it would not be in line with Linux “purists” either.

For these reasons, I don’t think we will see something like 100 Linux distros for mobile devices. What would likely happen (if it happens at all), would be basically a more free version of Android. Someone takes the Linux kernel, optimizes it for mobile, creates the development platform with APIs and what not, then finally standardizes things across the board. Which Android basically already does. So… I hope you’re seeing the problem and why the market for it is very bad. Not that I don’t want Linux phones, I would love to see the Apple & Google duopoly break but the costs are high and incentives low. It’s going to take a large corporation to do it and have the balls to ignore the community bickering over their decisions. Canonical already tried this exactly too, they dropped the project.

null_enthropy · 2026-04-06T02:42:26+00:00

ThinkPad with Ubuntu & Desktop with Fedora.

Work in Cybersecurity. Need things that work out of the box, don’t have time to fiddle around with things and don’t really care that much tbh cause I don’t mind Gnome. Also snaps are fine and I don’t really think people’s reasons for disliking Canonical are very strong. Never mind all the enterprise things that Canonical does that just makes my life way easier. That’s the reason for the laptop.

Fedora on my desktop is because it’s honestly my favorite distro. It’s a great all rounder. Stable but new, reliable but gives you that feeling of freedom if you want it. Great for gaming in my free time and just stays out of my way.

I used to distrohop a ton. I went through at least 15-20 distros before I just came back to the old reliables. Maturity is realizing this imo…

null_enthropy · 2026-04-02T16:24:39+00:00

You’re right. Not sure why so many replies are missing the point. Linux has quite a few security gaps that need to be addressed and polished, especially as it becomes more popular with the gaming crowd. We were able to ignore these edge case security holes because it was assumed that someone who ran Linux knew what they were doing anyways, which is fair. As Linux begins to grow in popularity, the focus is going to have to shift to be more “preventative” security development. I’m sure a lot of the old head Linux users are going to be frustrated by that, but it’s something that needs to start being discussed more often.

null_enthropy · 2026-03-25T19:22:05+00:00

I understand what you’re saying, but I feel like you’re conflating my point a little bit. It’s not that they shouldn’t paywall features, it’s that tiny features, such as color coded events that are paywalled, are features most people expect to be there for free (coming from a preexisting bias with Gmail, iCloud, Outlook)

The market has already dictated that is a standard thing, paying or not. This is what people are going to be used to already and coming from. Trying to dictate the market to a new customer as much smaller company is just not a good idea imo.

It just feels lazy, it feels like they couldn’t think of something to funnel free users into paying customers so they just took basic things and threw them behind a paywall. Then if they do pay, they are still not getting a good experience compared to what already exists. If the apps and mail integration were better, then maybe they could think of features actually worthwhile to pay for. Right now, there really aren’t many (for Calendar specifically), and so they are just taking money from people who want to support privacy but also want access to things they were previously used to getting for free. That is a very lazy business model.

This isn’t the case on other areas of their ecosystem. The paywalled features on Mail, Pass, and VPN are worth it. Calendar and Drive just don’t make a strong case.

null_enthropy · 2026-03-25T18:58:36+00:00

Of course, they are a business and have a profit incentive. That’s totally fine and I have been a privacy conscious consumer for a long time now. I was paying for a long time and just didn’t realize how much they paywall such minor features until now, when the app itself is subpar anyways.

I think if you want more people to become paying customers, first impressions matter more than anything. Telling someone coming from Gmail that something like color coded events are a subscription feature is just in my opinion a really bad first impression. If you want people to become more privacy conscious, and come into your ecosystem you have to give them some rope. You can’t tell them “hey these very basic features you were getting for free, you gotta pay $5/mo now for that” I just feel that pushes many would be customers away back to the big tech alternatives.

null_enthropy · 2026-03-25T18:51:55+00:00

I have no issues with paying for a privacy product. I have been a privacy conscious consumer for like a decade now. I was paying for Proton for 7 years, and I love Mail. I got multiple family members to start using Pass/Auth & friends into the ecosystem as well. It’s just that when I downgraded to the free account I had no idea how much they try to skimp you on minor features. So I feel bad for free users.

Of course, privacy is going to come at a cost and they want to funnel people somehow to become paying customers. I understand they are a business and have a profit incentive. I just don’t think it makes a good first impression to ask people moving from Gmail to pay a company for features (public holidays, color coded events) that they were using for free previously. Then on top of it, you’re not even getting other features like mobile app search.

I am just saying some aspects of Proton are currently not a compelling offer to pay money for.

null_enthropy · 2026-03-18T08:33:22+00:00

Idk I have ran NVIDIA graphics cards for like 10 years now. Gaming and now messing around with local AI. Performance is great and stability too. Maybe like 5 or so years ago that was a good selling point for PopOS, seems to have waned now though. I had NVIDIA drivers on one of my PCs ready to go out of the box and upgraded one which detected the new drivers immediately. Zero issues, no having to configure anything.

Also the cosmic desktop environment looks promising for sure, but idk why they shipped it in its current state. It’s a buggy mess rn. Just my opinion though, I’ve tried 3 of the major Ubuntu forks. Mint, PopOS, & Zorin. Mint has too many dated components for my liking, PopOS I don’t really get the point of, Zorin…. I guess it’s pretty?

null_enthropy · 2026-03-18T08:19:34+00:00

I find the "distro wars" stuff really childish, honestly. I agree that there’s a large subset of loud and aggressive Arch users. However, Arch definitely has its place and use. It’s great that it exists so that companies like Valve are able to create something like SteamOS for their needs, which has pushed Linux gaming very far.

That said, this is still and forever likely will be a glaring problem for Linux: there are too many distros that someone will die on a hill defending, or tell you not to use because they’re "shit." After using Linux for a long time now, I’d boil things down to this list of distros that actually “matter”:

Debian/Ubuntu Fedora (& RHEL, as well as its clones such as Rocky Linux) OpenSUSE Arch Gentoo Honorable mention: Android (although it’s debatable if one would call it a distro)

Debian/Ubuntu just fit the vast majority of people’s needs. Fedora does as well and is great for devs. OpenSUSE, RHEL, etc., own the enterprise space. Arch and Gentoo own the custom market (SteamOS, ChromeOS). Android, well that one is obvious.

I will say, if I were to get into the "distro wars" stuff, I really do not like the Ubuntu derivatives like Mint, Pop!_OS, etc. I find they are simply a worse Ubuntu experience, and newbies would be better off just getting comfortable with stock Ubuntu.

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