I’m very excited for the future of machine learning right now. I was cynical about it for a short while in mid 2022, since I got the impression that it was all going to be proprietary, privacy-invading online services, but things look like they’re changing.
A future of democratized open-standard and open-source AI sounds like a good one to me!
Fedora has a pretty good amount of software in the repositories, so a lot of the time that’s enough. When it’s not, flatpak with flathub have most gui software covered, and outside of that, if we’re talking about terminal or command line stuff, most of those have their own custom way to install them, or they just have self contained binaries that you can put in ~/.local/bin/.
I haven’t run into many issues with flatpak like it sounds like you have, so that really covers a lot of it for me honestly.
For anyone who’s interested in an alternative, check out https://codidact.com . It’s much smaller right now, but it’s open-source and the community is nice.
That’d be cool, but just a simple reminder in case not, that you can simply make an account on that instance. There’s no limit to what instances you’re allowed to have accounts on or anything like that, so you can always do that.
Still for cohesion I get wanting it all together.