There is a clear, widespread trend toward replacing major commercial software programs with AI clones—a phenomenon that, in a way, reminds me of the auld lang syne when "cracked" versions of commercial software were available everywhere ;) This could also help projects like ReactOS make progress by incorporating the best features from this fork, given that the clones are open source.
I’ve tried a few of these AI clones—specifically those from ArtCraft. They’re sometimes interesting, though they obviously make my computer’s fans spin up (some others, from different sources, are practically unusable for this very reason)... The only one I’ve adopted so far is PDFCraft; it’s already better than anything else we’ve had on Linux, despite a few odd quirks—the kind you often run into with AI.
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u/Francois-C 3d ago
There is a clear, widespread trend toward replacing major commercial software programs with AI clones—a phenomenon that, in a way, reminds me of the auld lang syne when "cracked" versions of commercial software were available everywhere ;) This could also help projects like ReactOS make progress by incorporating the best features from this fork, given that the clones are open source.
I’ve tried a few of these AI clones—specifically those from ArtCraft. They’re sometimes interesting, though they obviously make my computer’s fans spin up (some others, from different sources, are practically unusable for this very reason)... The only one I’ve adopted so far is PDFCraft; it’s already better than anything else we’ve had on Linux, despite a few odd quirks—the kind you often run into with AI.