Both Ubuntu and Fedora have made it official: support is coming soon for running local generative AI instances.
An epic and still-growing thread in the Fedora forums states one of the goals for the next version: the Fedora AI Developer Desktop Objective. It is causing some discontent, and at least one Fedora contributor, SUSE’s Fernando Mancera, has resigned.



They’re discussing a new spin specifically for AI developers, not changing existing distros to include new stuff.
CTFD
Oh good. We can all just ignore the AI version then?
Yes