As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity

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RedStrider@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
I hate windows 11 so much. Notifications are so much harder to read compared to 10 due to the right menu being nonexistant, instead we have this floating notification area that I never use. Everything takes ages to load, even on my beefy pc Settings still takes like 10 seconds to open. And it feels like the programmers died halfway though re-coding the context menus. Everything slightly more advanced can only be done through the old stuff so you end up with this awful mess where there’s no design consistency, and it takes twice the clicks to get to something.

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- Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Makes me wonder if anyone actually likes the windows experience. The main resistances I see to moving away from it are about familiarity and compatibility, plus some people tired of linux’s popularity here.
  
  I’m thinking that the company is only surviving based on large org buyin, including the main PC system makers who make windows the default option.
  
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BehindTheBarrier@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
My experience with W11 on the work laptop.

Taskbar sucks, maybe because I’m colorblind but I can te what my selected program is and programs with notifications (Teams) look like the focused program. Apparently notification boxes there are pink now. Can’t find any accessibility setting but fuck the colorblind I guess. It feels wrong to click the highlighted icon I for years have learned will mean that I minimize it…

And why all the dots? And why is the notification dot the largest, so I can even tell which window is actually focused?

Outlook doesn’t open with focus, especially the window that is supposed to pop up and warn me of upcoming meetings. Really annoying.

Teams notifications just don’t show if you are in a meeting and that is focused, they used to do that on W10.

Might be a Firefox bug, but there’s a lot of new visual bugs. Github diff view is randomly strongly colored, and randomly changes to the old weaker background colors when scrolling/resizing the windows. And a surprising amount of scrollbars in grids that weren’t there before.

I just wish W11 at least worked with the regular features of W10.

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- DupaCycki@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  
  Can’t find any accessibility setting but fuck the colorblind I guess.
  
  On Windows 11 there are accessibility settings for colorblind people. Settings -> Accessibility -> Color Filters. There, you can enable the feature and choose the right filter for you. Going by your description, I’m not sure it’ll help, but feel free to try it. Colorblind accessibility options have been progressing quite nicely the past few years, so at least there’s something to be happy about.
  
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  - BehindTheBarrier@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    It’s not helping unfortunately, it’s just a blanket change in colors by some filter. The taskbar highlight is bad to begin with. Ideally the should use red/orange for warning highlights and used bright white. But a weak pink isn’t going to be more visible even if it was turned redish. It’ll still be weak.
    
    And it does change every other thing on screen, which won’t be good for me since colors aren’t an issue normally, and even worse if it affect screen sharing. Taskbar changes is just straight up bad UX that tries to look good.
    
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adespoton@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Only if you have hardware that can handle it.

Don’t run Windows 11 on ARM.

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InnerScientist@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
These threads feel kinda redundant, all comments are just preaching to the choir.

Can anyone comment about anything besides “[…] switched to Linux […]”?

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- sonofearth@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  What else do you expect everyone to do? Please enlighten us if you have something more to offer than switching to Linux — which seemingly is the best option currently.
  
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  - InnerScientist@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    I’m not saying that you shouldn’t, I am saying that there’s more to discuss than “switched to Linux /thread”.
    
    For example let me just quote microsoft “The vision that we have is: let’s rewrite the entire operating system around AI, and build essentially what becomes truly the AI PC.” and think about what that means for your workplace. Windows isn’t going to vanish in a few years. The companies that have a lot of windows PCs will have to deal with increased hardware requirements in an already expensive market, have to wrangle user settings that the ai set on voice commands or fight against Microsoft to shut it all down.
    
    I feel like there’s going to be a lot of wasted productivity in the coming years spend on fixing what ai broke.
    
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  - OozingPositron@feddit.cl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    I’m not that guy but there’s ESU or windows 10 IoT.
    
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- lukaro@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Sure, I switched to Mac.
  
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  - InnerScientist@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Don’t they also push their new AI on customers? I don’t use MacOS so I’m a bit ootl on that.
    
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- melfie@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  There are several common refrains on Lemmy that many people find cathartic. If you don’t care to tell us about your preferred Linux distro again, maybe another thread will pop up soon about how streaming services are enshittified and you can tell us about what you’re self-hosting again.
  
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  - InnerScientist@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    I get wanting to tell people that you’ve switched from windows but these threads just feel too repetitive to be engaging, there’s no interesting discussion when everyone is just repeating the same points every month.
    
    There’s also no discussion about the article or if there is then I couldn’t find it because of all the switched to Linux comments.
    
    Oh well, back to other threads…
    
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  - bless@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    I use arch btw
    
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- WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  windows 10 LTSC from massgrave.dev site for afew years, but that will come to an end too. after that if you hate yourself there are the BSDs, or you can install hackintosh too. but the linuxes are the most mature alternative that won’t just fuck you over
  
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- ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Stay on 10 and force M$ to give further updates because of sheer popularity, just like they had to with XP
  
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  - InnerScientist@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Companies have already updated, new notebooks come with windows 11, it’s sadly inevitable that most users will sooner or later be switched to windows 11.
    
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ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Glad I ditched windows 11 for linux mint.

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VintageGenious@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
If you absolutely need to use Windows11, use Tiny11. But for the great majority of users, Zorin/Ubuntu/Mint or Bazzite are best pick

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justOnePersistentKbinPlease@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
This entire article is trusting the word of Microsoft's director of marketing

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goatinspace@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
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Prove_your_argument@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Cool. Pop_OS is working quite well over here.

It’s never been a better time to convert to Linux. The best part is that if one distro turns to shit you can just move over to another.

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FourThirteen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
I’ve been on Debian for a couple years since Windows 10 came out. Not sure what this fuss has been about, but I’m glad I switched when I did.

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- incompetent@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  
  Not sure what this fuss has been about, but I’m glad I switched when I did.
  
  The fuss is about those who haven’t switched yet. They’re being forced to swallow a big, fat AI pill.
  
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Sunflier@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
They are shoving AI down our throats.

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- mika_mika@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Because it makes them a lot of potential money. This has been going on since business as old as radioshack logged phone numbers initially to the dismay of the consumer, and whatever the fuck probably bothered people about capitalist practices and privacy before that. I will never understand the hate boner for AI because I rarely if ever encounter it and if I do it’s backend like the thousands of learned algorithms before it. I think AI might actually be revolutionary the way lemmy acts like it impacts their day to day lives.
  
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flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Windows team is desperate to remain relevant.

I suspect most Microsoft revenue these days comes from Azure and the cloud version of Office. Windows OS is pretty much irrelevant other than as a platform to distribute other products.

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- dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  I am predicting at some point Windows itself will become a business only product and cease to be marketed to consumers, and the home user platform will be some kind of live service bullshit probably served in a browser. Basically the Chromebook idea, but Microsoft.
  
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  - Reygle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    That’s what they’d like, and that’s what’s actually available today, if you have serious enough brain damage it’s available now.
    
    www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-365
    
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- Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Windows is about 10% of Microsoft revenue
  
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- sonofearth@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Once Adobe apps and new versions of Microsoft office start working reliably on Linux, 50% of corporate PCs are out of Windows’ market share.
  
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Jhex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Microsoft is going to implode with the AI bubble

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- explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  I hope you’re right but they’ve been overdue since USA vs Microsoft.
  
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- ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  MS is waaaay too big to fail.
  
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  - eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Xerox, AT&T, sometimes companies die
    
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  - hayvan@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Yes. At this point they are pretty much trying to fail but failing at that.
    
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Dogiedog64@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Some real 5D chess plays from the big MS these days lmfao. I’ll stick with Linux, thanks.

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WolfLink@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
I’m trying out Bazzite, and although it does take a little tweaking sometimes, I haven’t encountered a game I can’t run yet.

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- CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Have you tried out Steam on there? I don’t know if there are any workarounds to running Steam games that require Windows; otherwise I’d probably switch one of my last Windows machines over.
  
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  - tiramichu@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Steam is absolitely the EASIEST way to run games on Linux.
    
    It abstracts Wine, Proton and all the other dependencies so you don’t have to think about it much.
    
    You just install it, download and play exactly the same as you would on Windows.
    
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  - captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Steam is honestly your best shot for getting a game to run, they’ve worked pretty hard on their compatibility layer.
    
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  - WolfLink@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Yes Steam is the main tool Im using to run games, even non-Steam games.
    
    Bazzite also comes with Lutris which will set up some wine wrappers for you, which work fine, but Steam gives you things like Steam Input. I’ve never seen a controller mapper as good as Steam Input.
    
    I don’t know what the performance comparison between Valve’s Proton and current FOSS variants of Wine is.
    
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- Dyskolos@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  But nearly no multiplayer will work (due to stupid anti-cheat) Which is a very large base of the gamers who can never switch, even if they’d want to.
  
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  - kylian0087@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Almost all multiplayer games work even with anti-cheat. The once that do not use kernel level root kits for anti cheat. Vanguard is even worse then a normal root kit as it forces it self to be loaded with the OS.
    
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CaptainCancel@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
I finally troubleshooted why my Linux usb boot drive wasn’t working. Planning on making the switch when I have time off work.

So long as I can get Steam and Jellyfin working, I’ll never switch back.

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- Mertn33@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Jellyfin works well on linux.
  
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- placatedmayhem@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Bazzite was the distro that got me to kill the Windows 10 install on my gaming machine. Steam Deck catalyzed the move, but Bazzite was the final piece. Steam comes pre-baked in Bazzite, as does your graphics drives, and some multi-store frontends (I forget which atm), and some other quality of life bits. And Jellyfin Media Player is on Flathub, so installs easily via Flatpak.
  
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Tim_Bisley@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Forcing users to ditch WIndows 10? I can’t help but feel like this is a giant media campaign by microsoft to make people switch to Win 11. Nobody is forcing anyone to do anything. I can still use Windows XP if I want to.

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- BanMe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Corporate users will find it unacceptable to use an OS without regular security updates. Individual users will do whatever they want as per usual. Unfortunately without the security updates, the average Windows 10 user is going to be less and less secure over time, although MS will undoubtedly patch major things.
  
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  - AceOnTrack@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    The machine I have to use at work was updated to windows 10 two months ago. One of the software we use for our job is hosted on a VM running Windows 98.
    
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skisnow@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
How bad would running Windows 10 past support be exactly? Seems like most vulnerabilities should have been patched by now.

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- AlDente@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Extended security updates are available. This can be activated for free using Microsoft Activation Scripts.
  
  Microsoft tech support has been repeatedly caught using these scripts to resolve support tickets for license issues. (bleepingcomputer.com/…/microsoft-support-cracks-w…) Also, the open source MAS code is hosted on Microsoft-owned Github, so they are appearantly not very concerned with people taking advantage of this exploit.
  
  If you go this route, please also see the FAQ entry here. There is currently a glitch with commercial ESU keys (which this uses) and Windows Update will continue to claim that your device will no longer receive security updates. This is also effecting W10 LTSC systems. However, you can verify that the license key is active through Command Prompt and instructions are given in the FAQ.
  
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- prof@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  See an example here:
  
  Microsoft said both issues could allow attackers to execute code with elevated privileges, although there are currently no indications on how they are being exploited and how widespread these efforts may be. In the case of CVE-2025-24990, the company said it’s planning to remove the driver entirely, rather than issue a patch for a legacy third-party component.
  
  The security defect has been described as “dangerous” by Alex Vovk, CEO and co-founder of Action1, as it’s rooted within legacy code installed by default on all Windows systems, irrespective of whether the associated hardware is present or in use.
  
  New attack vectors are found constantly. Having no support can very likely result in a system that can be automatically breached in a few weeks to months.
  
  As long as you don’t have a public IP on your device and are in a trusted network you should be fine. But if you use a public wifi or somehow expose a port to the internet you’re increasingly vulnerable for each day after the last security update.
  
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- LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  There’s always going to be vulnerabilities, that’s why they’re ending support. They don’t want to spend time updating an OS they don’t want people using.
  
  Windows 10 is probably fairly secure… today. In 2 years, someone might discover a new vulnerability, and you won’t get the update. If there’s a new way to do web security and the browsers need OS support to implement it, you’ll be stuck on legacy security settings.
  
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  - Rooster326@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    It’s not going to take 2 years…
    
    New vulnerabilities are found on a daily to weekly basis.
    
    To put this in perspective. In 2024 there were 1360 reported, 587 vulnerabilities confirmed with 33 of them deemed critical.
    
    I would guess that there are critical vulnerabilities that are right now being worked on because there is no concern of the exploit being patched.
    
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  - skisnow@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Out of curiosity, does anyone know how many critical vulnerabilities are currently unpatched in Windows 7?
    
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- Holytimes@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Short term honestly likely fine for your avg person. After even six months tho I wouldn’t trust using it for banking, government sites or anything more sensitive then looking at cat memes.
  
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- Passerby6497@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  If you want to keep running Win10, look into 0patch. They do in memory patching and are MUCH smaller, it’s what a real OS manufacturer would put out.
  
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- Rekorse@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Its probably more lazy than anything. Security always depends on what you need to protect. If you want to keep using it, dont keep sensitive information on it. People will target vulnerabilities in Windows 10 as time goes on.
  
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- BlackPenguins@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s a conspiracy where Microsoft purposely left a massive hole in windows 10. And they are going to attack their own system in 2 months and be like “oh noez, welp guess you have to come to windows 11”.
  
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  - Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    They don’t care about forcing you to 11 other than it saves them development costs. All the ads and spyware are also in 10.
    
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Quexotic@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
TrmpleOS here I come!

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- rob64@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  The deep cut! Praise god!
  
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- godrik@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Halleluja
  
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NegentropicBoy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Run Linux on my main PC.

Time to switch my old laptop over too, or maybe I could configure a new linux PC as my “laptop” if I could get a good touch screen interface (for relaxing on the couch)?

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- Jack_Burton@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  I think Ubuntu Touch gets decent reviews
  
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shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
IDGAF for my personal machine. If MS jams AI up my ass, and I can’t shut it off, then I’ll bail. All these stories are overblown, as is lemmy’s take on Windows.

For example; only ad I see is the occasional sentence on my lock screen, “You should try $whatever!” That blurb isn’t on my radar. But to hear lemmy tell it, I’m overrun with ads at every turn.

I’m told Windows is constantly fucking up and updates are crippling. This machine was originally Windows 10 and has been through 3 machines, same SSD, did nothing but swap it. No issues. At all.

Want to talk about issues? Lemmy is the most clusterfucked IT experience in my life ATM.

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- the_q@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  We’re so glad you shared.
  
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Nusm@peachpie.theatl.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Me, using my MacBook:

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(Don’t roast me for not using Linux, I’m all in and happy in the Apple ecosystem!)

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thatradomguy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Called it

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NGC2346@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

For now, the Copilot features will be technically opt-in, but it’s more than possible that this will change in the future.

As much as i dislike some Windows 11 elements, let’s stick to facts. The headline make it seem way worse than it actually is, although still not good at all.

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foodandart@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Hm.

Well, Microsoft can tell me to upgrade my PC and like with Apple saying the same thing about my Macintoshes - ad nauseam - I can ignore it all. And will.

My PC is for gaming and nothing else anyhow…

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Bosht@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
For the gamers here using Linux: what about Discord? One of my only social outlets currently is unfortunately through Discord with some friends. There any issues with drivers for headsets and/or Discord having issues?

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webdox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Posting from a 13 year old Windows 7 64 bit gaming desktop. Come get me Gates…

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Sam_Bass@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Guess I’ll be keeping mine offline forever then.

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Sunshine@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
But Zorin OS too hard! I was told.

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Surp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
I just play games on my home computer so windows 11 is whatever to me

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