Yeah… It is the Windows that finally pushed me the fastest to install Linux. I was very comfortable with Debian servers as part of my work, but never managed to switch my daily driver. Two weeks ago that happened. Peace…
Microsoft claims "2026 is the moment" for AI PCs, but its essay-length beginner explanation only creates more confusion — Is it any wonder adoption is slow?
Submitted 2 weeks ago by throws_lemy@reddthat.com to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/microsoft-ai-pc-learning-center-slow-adoption
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sorter_plainview@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
one_knight_scripting@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Debian servers… But what direction did you go for your daily driver? There is no wrong answer, but I like hearing how people migrate over.
I was the same as you, btw, started with Debian servers be it an Apache Cloudstack hypervisor, or k8s host.
But because I decided to go with a tiling Windows manager, somehow I ended up down the hyprland rabbit hole on Arch.
sorter_plainview@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
So I haven’t felt the need to go with a tiling compositors. I already use multiple munitors, and kind of have designated spots for the apps I use.
I love stability and don’t want any surprises after Windows made enough surprises. So decided to go with Debian Trixie, and KDE.
But I use Arch in my spare laptop, btw. EndeavorOS where I experiment some stuff. Maybe down the line I will give hyprland a try on my spare first.
qaeta@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
My next computer will be Linux because of all this nonsense. The only thing that was keeping me on Windows was gaming, and Valve has solved that issue for every game I play via Proton. Sayonara MicroSlop!
Bruncvik@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
My current computer will be Linux, as soon as I stop procrastinating and clean up my documents and back them up on my NAS. Already did that with my travel laptop.
qaeta@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Eh, my current computer is a laptop where the screen only works at 60hz, but it’s default refresh rate is 120hz so I can’t actually see anything (such as the bios or boot options) until Windows has started and forced it back to 60hz. Otherwise I would have switched months ago.
GutterRat42@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I am trying to see if I can get away switching to linux
one_knight_scripting@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I have… Moved my gaming over to it… Admittedly better since I don’t play anything like cod or bf. But you can keep a dual boot just in case. Still plays horizon zero dawn, fallen Jedi, borderlands 4(probably better on Linux), and Doom Eternal. Also Rocket League.
bourrelier@jlai.lu 2 weeks ago
Are you using pop!_os or another distro ?
Trilogy3452@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Always remember you can dual boot if there’s software you can’t avoid using
reksas@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
and there is windows emulator
TrippinMallard@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
I’ve heard ZorinOS is good if you want easy switch over from windows / want to keep similar UI
GutterRat42@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I appreciate it. I don’t mind different UIs. I have used Fedora, Mint, Debian, Ubuntu, Kali for some reason, Tails (I am probably on an NSA list). My problem is work software.
ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I thought 2025 was supposed to be “the moment” for AI PCs. Dell and other manufacturers were sure as hell spamming the shit out of that premise in their incessant online ads. But then it all fell through because of the sagging economy on Main Street, and the fact that many people didn’t like AI being forced down they’re proverbial throats. So yeah, 2026 won’t be any better for this ill-thought out marketing strategy.
moobythegoldensock@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
The year of the AI PC comes immediately after the year of the linux desktop.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
This makes me happy, but then also sad.
lemming@anarchist.nexus 2 weeks ago
I don’t even know what an AI PC is.
ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 2 weeks ago
Adoption is slow because it doesn’t fucking work, not because they explained it poorly
MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
2026 is the moment FOR LINUX
QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
🐧
MetalSlugX@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
No it isn’t.
I’ve been waiting for the “big year” since 1996. It’s never going to happen. This is not to invalidate anybody’s appreciation of Linux but it’s not for the public and it never will be.
badgermurphy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
For. Real.
I switched over some months ago now and tried several different distributions before finally settling on one that mostly could be made to work with everything, as many of them had one or more hardware dealbreaker that prevented it from working out. I think its also fair to mention that while many things did just work “out of the box” on all of them, many also did not. Some were able to be cajoled into cooperating after varying amounts of troubleshooting, editing and general trial and error effort, but there are huge swaths of the user experience that are about as unpolished and manual as they were at the turn of the century.
I still prefer using it to Windows 11, and it has improved a lot over the years, but I think the main thing that has made Linux increase in appeal over time is the relative continual decline in the quality and behavior of Windows.
I’m sure a lot of these hindrances can be addressed by building or buying a computer purpose-built to run Linux, but I think the point stands that unless you just use your PC for the “Facebook, Email, YouTube” type of stuff, you’re going to run into things you have to do that require quite a bit of research to get to work.
Don’t get me wrong; I don’t regret my decision in the slightest. Linux offers you very real ownership of your computer and user experience, it is just absolutely not for everyone, and I hope the Linux community at large one day grows to acknowledge that the tinkering and troubleshooting that many of them are not troubled by, and some of them even get enjoyment from, is fine with them because they are hobbyists and professionals. People outside that sphere see computers more exclusively as tools than hobbies, and tools that often give you trouble and take away your time are worse than similar ones that don’t.
MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Year of the Mac then?
BananaOnionJuice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Count me out especially if it actually is a:
- Subscription based
- Always online
- High latency
- Single point of failure
- Hallucinating
- Voice controlled
- Vibe coded
Monstrosity!
GalacticSushi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Frenchgeek@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Oh? They found a way to make a PC with no hard drive, no RAM, and no GPU?
SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 2 weeks ago
No hard drive and no GPU is trivial.
No RAM is harder, but I guess it’s possible if you use an SSD or magnetic tapes as memory (albeit extremely slow).
Frenchgeek@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Find a way to run MSDOS from L2 cache.
lechekaflan@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Install Linux, Problem Solved.
kyub@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
I think still too many people missed the turning point when Microsoft suddenly stopped releasing products/software that were superior in basically all areas to their previous versions. I think that turning point was Windows 8 already, for many who consider Windows 8 a single-time mistake like ME or Vista it was Windows 10, for others it took until Windows 11 until they noticed the decline of Windows as a whole.
And it’s not just MS, but a lot of consumer tech is growing anti-consumer and gets enshittified to the point of where you really have to think hard whether or not you even want the new stuff they’re spewing out. My consumer habits have certainly changed to be much more rigorous than, say, 10-20 years ago. I read a lot more reviews these days and from many more different sources bevore I even think of buying something new.
“AI PCs” will increase your dependency on MS’ online services (which is probably the main thing that MS wants), decrease your privacy even more (also what MS wants - that’s a lot of data for sale), consume even more energy (on a planet with limited resources), sometimes increase your productivity (which is probably the most advantage you’re ever getting out of it) and other times royally screw you over (due to faulty and insecure AI behavior). Furthermore, LLMs are non-deterministic, meaning that the output (or what they’re doing) changes slightly every time you repeat even the same request. It’s just not a great idea to use that for anything where you need to TRUST its output.
I don’t think it will be a particularly good deal. And nothing MS or these other companies that are in the AI business say can ever be taken at face value or as truthful information. They’ve bullshitted their customers way too much already, way more than is usual for advertisements. If this was still the '90s or before 2010 or so - maybe they’d have a point. But this is 2026. Unless proven otherwise, we should assume bullshit by default.
I think we’re currently in a post-factual hype-only era where they are trying to sell you things that won’t ever exist in the way they describe them, but they’ll claim it will always happen “in the near future”. CEO brains probably extrapolate “Generative AI somewhat works now for some use cases so it will surely work well for all use cases within a couple of years”, so they might believe the stories they tell all day themselves, but it might just as well never happen. And even if it DID happen, you’d still suffer many drawbacks like insane vendor dependencies/lock-ins, zero privacy whatsoever, sometimes faulty and randomly changing AI behavior, and probably impossible-to-fix security holes (prompt injection and so on - LLMs have no clear boundary between data and instructions and it’s not that hard to get them to reveal secret data or do things they shouldn’t be doing in the first place).
XLE@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Supposedly, according to the Microsoft article,
AI PCsCoPilot+ PCs are capable of translating stuff on the fly (which sounds awesome) and generating images, all locally. Allegedly.I have yet to run into anybody that’s actually talked about these so-called innovations though. I have a PC with Windows and the beefy GPU and I would love to get live transcriptions. But the (MS) article doesn’t even mention how I would do that…
Even if everything Microsoft promise was true, though, the lines sure are intentionally blurred between what runs locally and what doesn’t.
kyub@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
Yes, and they intentionally want those lines to be as blurry as possible.
andallthat@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
there IS a very simple explanation, but it doesn’t help sell… “how can we have our customers share the massive costs of all the computing power AI needs, while at the same time keeping access to all their yummy private data?”
Hippy@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
I have a NPU for no fucking reason
addie@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
That space on the CPU die could have been extra cache or maybe even another core, speed up all computing tasks on the machine. But no, it’s a fucking waste of space; not flexible enough to be used for general-purpose compute, not parallel enough to be used for a GPU, not enough RAM to run a local model. Got mine switched off in the BIOS just in case it improves battery life any.
Meron35@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Eh, I don’t think NPUs are ready to be marketed so heavily, but they’ve been around for a while and do get used.
They’re basically a rebranded tensor processing unit, think a more specialised GPU that’s even more energy efficient at tensor/linear algebra.
It’s mostly used in more technical applications, such as image/audio/video processing, machine learning, or really anything maths heavy. Apple’s M series had NPUs, and are an understated reason why they perform extraordinarily well in a lot of scientific applications.
Uses for consumers are not as compelling (especially on laptop/desktop), mostly faster/more efficient subtitle generation, face recognition, and maybe blurring your zoom background.
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The em-dashes in the title don‘t fill me with confidence for this article about slop.
sturmblast@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Pass
scala@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Glad I dipped before they slapped Ai in every detail. Rip cortana.
Black616Angel@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
So 2026 is “the year of the AI PC”?
Lol
lechekaflan@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
More like it only drives people into downloading Linux.
Black616Angel@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
This is a nod to the “year of the Linux desktop” meme
HubertManne@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
The problem is not the concept of ai pc but of microsoft ones that are network connected. I think linux distribution based around a local llm that is limited to assiting with the os and then have opt in for other capabilities could be really interesting.
QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Make Linux PCs and you will PRINT MINT. I WILL BUY ALL OF THEM!!!
🐧
SabinStargem@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Dunno about cloud AI, but for local AI, the technology definitely isn’t ready. It requires serious hardware to run, and current AI tends to fumble with narrative and roleplay pretty easily.
GLM-4.6-V with Heretic, couldn’t understand the scenario I wanted to try: creating a blank robot, who is to be raised into a cyberolympics champion as part of a slice-of-life story. This particular AI model instantly went into a dark mindset of nihilism, where it wanted to commit suicide or rebel against a creator during bootup, despite the scenario outlying that the robot would have a blank personality at first. A dark direction is fine, but it needs to make sense.
Mind, an model like Step3.5-Flash Abliterated was much more sane and on the mark, but it overthinks things. Which is bad, it makes a 10-minute output into something like 40 minutes.
Hopefully, the Chinese New Year will unveil a quality model for roleplayers.
kokesh@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Why would I want an “AI PC”? If anyone fancies that slop, they can install it on any pc, any phone,…
vane@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Microsoft is basically an equivalent of Nazi in private market.
XLE@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Wow the Microsoft article really is a mess. I honed in on a promise made about “AI PCs” and was initially interested in a promise to do local translation (perhaps of un-subtitled foreign films or news?)
AI PCs are powered by a turbocharged neural processing unit (NPU) [that] performs more than 40 trillion operations per second (TOPS)… This matters because:
- AI tasks, like real-time translation, image generation, and intelligent search, run locally instead of requiring the cloud
- Responses feel faster and smoother
- Your battery lasts longer
(Responses are “faster and smoother” and the battery lasts “longer”… compared to what? Surely those magical cloud AI solutions can go faster and offload AI processing, something Microsoft seems to be jockeying for anyway.)
Never mind that technicality. I want local translation. And my PC can do an AI, I thought, until I realized the definition of “AI PCs” is mixed with a more exclusionary selection of CoPilot+ PCs:
Some of the tools listed, including Recall and Live Captions with Translations, are only available on Copilot+ PCs with an NPU capable of 40 TOPS performance (or better).
phutatorius@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
It’s a crap solution in search of a problem.
Jhex@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m sort of way out on a niche branch on Linux with Garuda as base with my own rudimentary Hyprland deployment… I have never loved working on my workstation more
one_knight_scripting@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Hyprland is my new favorite. Never even thought I would like a tiling Windows manager before, but it is pretty sick. Quickshell is pretty cool too…
Jhex@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
same… I always thought tiling window managers were too niche, for hardcore users only but here I am
Xyphius@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Recently switched to Linux Mint on my daily driver. Trying Zorin OS on an old laptop. Both run smoother than windows OS ever did. My father wants to buy a new laptop, trying to convince him to use Linux (debian based preferably since that’s what I’ve been most familiar with for years now).
AgentBoom@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
There are some jobs that need a PC just for basic tasks like sending and receiving messages and emails. Of course they could use a phone for this, but computers have bigger screens. They only need access to the Internet, a frendly GUI, and permissions controls. The way things are going, even big companies will switch to Linux when Windows 10 support finally ends.
atropa@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Are you guys still using microsoft ?
Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip 2 weeks ago
I’m on the hunt for a replacement for my Surface, but sure as shit not getting anything with copilot. Curious what alternatives are out there.
Linux options seem a little light on the tablet front.
deleted@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I installed Ubuntu in my surface go 2 and it’s light years ahead of windows in terms of performance.
I couldn’t get the camera to work though. But other than that it’s rock solid.
mrspaz@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I put Mint on my Surface Pro 5, it works quite nicely so far. Granted I do “typical” stuff on it like web browsing, email, basic picture editing, and some chats, but for those things everything’s working fine.
The only different part of the install was installing the Surface kernel after the fact: github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface
circuscritic@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
reddit.com/r/surfacelinux/
yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
seems like raspberry pi os on touchscreen devices supports on-screen keyboards and basic touch-screen features. There’s also the Librem 11 tablet, that runs linux on an Intel chip with Gnome.
ageedizzle@piefed.ca 2 weeks ago
Why are linux options light on the tablet front? It should work the same as on a laptop
THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I still play Gears of War and Forza, unfortunately. Hopefully someone gets native Microslop games working on Linux soon.