Is it though? How did the agent learn to operate GNU+Linux? Man pages, or questions on forums, mailing lists, and wikis?

If the operating system is building the agent in, they will give it access to various APIs needed to do stuff. Apple already did this with Siri on the iPhone before AI took off, they wanted users to be able to adjust settings via Siri. Microsoft has made pretty much everything possible with Powershell as well, which I’d expect to be in Copilot’s training data. Maybe it’s not as easy as modifying a text file, but if the AI is doing it, does it matter?

Maybe it’s more work for the OS vendor, but it will likely be more user friendly overall, without any setup… this is the typical trade off and one reason why the year of the Linux desktop always seems 5 years away.