This isn’t a Linux fanboy provocation. But the technological paradigm shift we’re living through is the most significant in thirty years — and if you’re still clinging to an operating system born in the pre-AI era out of sheer laziness, a well-deserved and thoroughly painful obsolescence awaits you.
AI Is Not a Feature. It Is the Computer.
Has it actually sunk in yet? AI won’t be a function running inside the computer. It will be the computer. And when that moment arrives, anyone who still wants sovereignty over their own computing will need to bet on:
- Efficiency: local computation with minimal energy draw
- Control: zero dependency on American clouds
- Reduced energy consumption: we cannot afford these power-hungry behemoths
- Sovereign hardware: a supply chain that can’t be strangled
These features — essential to our digital sovereignty — are precisely what Microsoft and friends have sacrificed, turning the operating system into a telemetry-bloated platform riddled with Stars-and-Stripes government backdoors and hardwired to their cloud infrastructure.
Ubuntu and AI Baked Into the OS
Meanwhile, Ubuntu is preparing its next Long Term Support release — the one aimed at professional use — with local AI capabilities integrated directly into the operating system.
Read that again carefully.
Not glorified copilots. Actual open-source LLMs running natively on the machine in agentic mode:
- Lower power consumption
- Lower cost
- Your data stays off American servers
European Dependency Is a Choice, Not a Fate
For decades we’ve been bankrolling Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and the entire American tech ecosystem while systematically dismantling any semblance of European technological sovereignty. Today we depend on the US for:
- Software
- Cloud
- AI
- Digital infrastructure
Ubuntu is showing us the path. Through deep integration between AI and OS, we have a genuine historical opportunity to flip the table. On this front, Linux is light-years ahead.
Linux Powers AI. Windows Doesn’t.
A few facts worth stating plainly:
- AI runs on massive datacenters powered by Linux — as does the rest of the internet
- The best AI agents — like Claude Code — run natively on macOS (a BSD Unix derivative) and Linux
- On Windows? Only through WSL, Microsoft’s desperate hack to inject something functional into that vast, brownish, vaguely malodorous swamp
The Real Revolution: A European AI-Native OS
The real revolution will arrive when a European OS emerges that is:
- AI-native
- Open source
- Lightweight
- Optimised to run on a shoestring of power
- Capable of running local models at energy costs that make American alternatives look grotesque
That day won’t just be a technological revolution. It will be pure geopolitics.
The Question Is Simple
Do we actually want to keep financing digital dependency on the United States — or do we have the spine to build and back something of our own?