alt Hacker News> Linux is available to everyone and would end a lot of frustrations and headaches they currently experience with macOS
That is a very bad argument for the AI thing, because as a Linux fan (started in the late 90s with Linux) I am using a Macbook because the Laptop story on Linux is not at all a success story. The headaches macOS causes would just be exchanged for the headaches Linux does.
But that is entirely my point. You are merely trading headaches off because a solution like “running your own local LLM“ is never going to be as turnkey as simply paying a subscription and throwing down your questions on ChatGPT. Certainly not for the “average” user. It’s not a real solution. They will accept tons of compromises for it to be that simple.
They want an up-to-date answer with a modern/user-friendly interface. ChatGPT is as simple as Google search, I’ll give them that. Go to the site-> type -> receive an answer (of varied quality to be sure). We have seen this over and over again. You can’t throw the average person in front of LM Studio, tell them to go to town, and expect them not to open a browser and fire up ChatGPT at the first sight of that interface. You’re placing too much value in local control/customization for the “average” user.
At the end of the day a computer is “the thing that gets you to the thing.” Most people want it to just do that as intuitively as possible. Local control and customization more often than not bumps against that. It’s a decision that compromises ease of use for functionality, something that you and I value but most people do not.