No coping, “idealist” is not the slur you think it is, and it isn’t even relevant to this.

ai is owned and controlled by really dodgy people. If you watch videos of jensen huang, sam altman, alex karp, elon musk etc, and don’t see anything wrong, you are what is wrong. trump is a huge fan…

You are the only person who is to blame for you lack of standards.

they say it on reddit, the same place where people post photos of their desktop and refer to it as ‘ricing’

Yes that reason is fanboys, and trashtubers

You mention hopping, but you don’t say what you have already tried, what you dislike about them, and what you mainly want it for, or your hardware config.

Hopefully you have already settled on a Desktop Environment or WM) though?

• Ignore everyone who suggests ubuntu, mint, or debian; even though that will be many people (except for the debian suggestion, which is not a common suggestion, and it’s bizarre that someone has already suggested that).

• Understand that most people will just suggest what they use, even if they have little experience with other distros, many of these people just went with what is marketed well, but they will often be adamant fans of it anyway.

• It’s easier to remove ones that you do not like (for whatever reason), to reduce the options. That might be to do with: gui vs terminal focused, where they are from, their politics, commercialisation, their community attitude, ai, whatever. I would suggest trying to pick a base (arch, fedora, debian, ubuntu etc) and work from there. Something like the advanced search on https://distrowatch.com/ can help with that

I stopped using startpage earlier this year when they announced they were going down the ai toilet.

https://noai.duckduckgo.com/

https://marginalia-search.com/

the fourth is only a problem if you believe in the whole ‘intellectual property’ charade

wtf

One of the issues there is that I will most likely not recognise them by the time they get there, due to all of the other zombies/crypto-bros/trash, many of whom are clearly frequenting this sub now.

Sure, let me know when you get there.

It’s not that simple, even if you are.

The usa could save us all by falling into the ocean

Can’t the ai trash just f*ck back off to windows, apple, and google where they belong?

Nura is an anti ai distro

Redcore is a gentoo fork, I have it installed due to it being anti ai, but haven’t spent much time with it yet

RedStar being North Korean would be way down my list along with usa, israel, and russian distros

“the exit hop is run by Mullvad. a respected VPM company out of Sweden.”

been living under a rock?

No one who is decent even considers visiting/supporting the usa.

The type of person who watches trashtubers, is the same type of person who was born to use windows.

Redcore

https://redcorelinux.org/

No idea what your day to day is, or what you consider “unique and creative”, or why that would be selection criteria for an os though.

Saying “no ai at all” isn’t much different than saying you can’t Google

really odd way to argue a point

personal social media

argument: it’s ai slop

Linus snr suggested that someone should fork the kernel if they want no ai. Fingers crossed that it happens.