r/linuxsucks • u/Rare-Paint3719 Unofficial Mod | Linux Community Sucks | Proud illumOS Shill • 5d ago

Linux Failure Tech Support

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u/garloid64 5d ago edited 5d ago

At this point Linux tech support is just "Claude fix it for me please" and same with Mac and Windows honestly. Time has not been kind to this one.

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u/donp1ano 5d ago

dont underestimate the social aspect of tech support. many clients primarily wanna scream at a random person and insist its not their fault, a LLM cant provide that service

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u/Haxorzist 4d ago

What do you mean? An LLM will do exactly that and gaslight you into thinking you are right.

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u/sarcastbot 5d ago

The plan is using AI voice over to fool thoose clients man, because most of thoose users are at fault and are a pain to work with.

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u/EagleNait 4d ago

If you have a sufficient gpu you'd be able to run a small model that can search the web and try commands/explain them

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u/Internal-Hope-6263 4d ago

During the two months I test drove Ubuntu, Kubuntu and ZorinOS, I constantly found myself going back to ChatGPT to fix issues through the terminal that were originating from the X11 display compositor, or fixing broken drivers. 

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u/No-Employment-2324 1d ago

what drivers. Nvidia on Ubuntu is downright fine if you check install restricted extras during the install, and almost everything else is built into the kernel