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Open source AI is practical on Linux today: this article explains why (privacy, cost, control, reproducibility) and provides Bash-ready, distro-specific installs plus a Python venv to run four demos: FLAN-T5 for NLP automation, OpenCV for edge vision, Vosk for offline speech, and FAISS + Sentence Transformers for semantic search/RAG, with tips on pinning, containerizing, and right-sizing for production.