[bossyTeacher]

Why? They take lots of space and lots of computing power. Linux has always been about lightweight and a bundle only containing essential things. You can always install one if you need it but as it stands right now LLMs are not useful enough to warrant their bundling in a distro. Just my 2 cents

[yjftsjthsd-h]

> Linux has always been about lightweight and a bundle only containing essential things.

I really don't think that's true. There have always been distros that are based on being tiny, of course, but I think most of the normal distros are concerned with hitting a happy medium of size and features. Otherwise I can't imagine why anything would be shipping GNOME or KDE over LXDE, or why libreoffice would be installed by default. So the question is more where LLMs are on cost/benefit... which granted, may not be there yet, but I could easily see it turning into a checkbox at install time - "this machine has 16+GB of RAM; add SomeLLM?"

[bossyTeacher]

you can't really compare the utility of an LLM against libreoffice or similar. There is no comparison. Libreoffice is something that you would definitely use unlike an LLM.

[p10_user]

I use LLMs to double check/write python pandas code so I don't need to use Libreoffice/spreadsheet software.

[bossyTeacher]

But distros are not made for you only. They are made based on what most of their targeted userbase needs. And for most an LLM is not needed