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> In one week, the installer was downloaded more than 1 million times — not counting updates via Linux distribution repositories. Either there's 1m people down
by NitpickLawyer 27d ago
> In one week, the installer was downloaded more than 1 million times — not counting updates via Linux distribution repositories.
Either there's 1m people downloading new software "because no ai", or there's another popular thing that installs this, and is not counted in the "updates via linux repos". One is much much more probable than the other.
- andai 27d ago> or there's another popular thing that installs this Yeah, an AI tool: The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49527396 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49527396
- tcfhgj 27d agoand the bundled copies will contribute to installer download statistics?
- leptons 27d agoYou underestimate the public's hatred of AI-in-everything. HN is a bubble of AI.
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- ghaff 26d agoI fully expect the bubble is the people in tech who have strong feelings about the goodness or badness of AI one way or another.
- leptons 25d agoYeah, the ones that know obvious slop and won't ship it are the ones who will win. Unfortunately it seems like I'm stuck with the other half at my current job.
- KolibriFly 26d agoDisliking clunky autocomplete is very different from going out of your way to replace Word with Libre Office. The average office worker will tolerate ten bad assistants before they voluntarily deal with ODF formatting quirks in a corporate environment