Will take your word for it Mint Cinnamon is good, thanks for that also, I have not tried it yet, but might do.

I am lucky to have use of two nearly identical machines, One with Windows, the other with Ubuntu. Its very useful for my work as a Systems Engineering researcher, working on the global energy problem, I maintain the ubuntu machine to host a Networked Systems Modeling Repository Database in MySql, and I use the Windows machine to access this as a client. Its a cut-down version of the networked systems I have experience of using with industrial clients, it gives me the capability to continue using all the functionality of the modeling tools without having to be part of a corporate network.

I certainly can confirm quirky Nvidia drivers in Ubuntu, mine were stuffed three times in a row by successive updates of the latest development version of Ubuntu 23.10.

I would have had no chance of fixing them if I had not been able to consult ChatGPT (I am by no means a linux Guru).

I gave it copies of the logfiles it requested by name (With full paths), it read them and told me what to reconfigure on my machine, all I had to do was cut and paste into the config files it again identified with full path names. I rebooted the machine and voila it was fixed. Once or twice it did take a few iterations, but it always fixed it, usually within 10-15 minutes of me interacting with it.

The incredible part of this is that ChatGPT claims it operates on training data programmed in it years ago, so how does it know how to fix the latest versions of Ubuntu?

It's obviously learning as we go along. But another thing - the lates rollouts of Ubuntu including Nvidia driver updates have worked like clockwork on my machine, no hiccups. So Ubuntu has learned my machine Nvidia graphics architecture, it gets it right every time now.

I am almost tempted to ask ChatGPT to do an API which would enable it to just plug into my machine, and do any repairs needed, if it sees anything wrong there after Ubuntu updates. This would be me giving it the ability to not only monitor and manage my machine, but also the capability for it to offer to others who might be similarly tempted.

Then all we would need is a Ubuntu developer, just one, to request automation of their work on Ubuntu, and there we would have it, fully automated Ubuntu.

Then we might just be able to consult ChatGPT to say we need integration of Adobe support etc, there seems no reason it would not be able to do it, I guess it knows all the Adobe products intimately, as well as just about every other app we could shake a stick at...