Yes. The difference is obviously that full, fat Linux runs on a superset of anything a layperson would call a computer, and can be built from source on roughly the same set of hardware. Running the full, fat Deepseek (as in the 1.6T model, unquantized) is too big to run on anything a layperson would call a computer, and being able to actually build it is even harder.
It's famously difficult to find people willing to rent you time on big computers over the internet.
Other people's computers famously can't be taken away.
You're right, there is an all powerful wizard who can take away all the world's computers. You got me.
There's a reason Yudkowsky only thinks AI can be stopped by literal missile strikes against data centers.