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So they're shutting down Windows 10 after telling everyone Windows 10 would be the last windows operating system, and at the same time as them doing that they're telling everybody that Windows 11 won't last very long either, and they're going to replace it with an AI nightmare.
Great marketing strategy.
For some reason, corporate just can't stop itself from slaughtering its own golden cow.
Never been happier to be 100% on Linux.
God I love Linux ...
pervasive
What? Why would anyone want this?
That was my first thought, like what the fuck, I don't want my OS creeping on all my shit.
It won't matter, they will serve slop and most people will happily eat it.
A lack of even basic technology literacy hurts everyone so much. Most people have zero clue how their stuff works and zero interest to learn. Its easy to manipulate an ignorant population as we see again and again.
My favorite simple example is "do you shit with the door open? No? OK then privacy does have value--for all involved."
I would recomend Linux mint, but the main thing, get used to the openscource alternatives for your programs you use now while you are still using windows. By the time you swap to linux, you'll just have to get used to things like using "sudo apt install ****", appimages and snaps. Just some things that are different about linux. Also I wouldn't worry too much about trying to use a "gaming" distro. With some elbow grease pretty much any distro can look look and feel the same. All that matters is witch distro starts closest to what you want.
That is a lot of words to say it will be shittier and have more ads...
Dear Microsoft.
Your operating system only exists because I have a need to click and type into business things in a quiet office.
Please stop fucking this up.
Fundamentally, the concept that your computer can actually look at your screen and is context aware is going to become an important modality for us going forward.”
Since I don't feel the need for ambience nor multi-modal experiences in my OS, considering the implementation of that "modality" I'm afraid that even as a long-time Windows user I'm going to have to switch to another OS that closer aligns to my needs.
Uh. You really gonna force me to switch to Linux, are you?
Do it.
Just do it, its simple. I moved to Linux Mint and it is essentially no different. Loads the same browsers for everything. Every major piece of software, in my case, has a linux version or at the very least and linux based alternative.
Most importantly, Steam compatibility mode is goddamn amazing.
Question. Can't you get around all this shit just getting win pro?
I still hate to give any $ to microshit, but if anyone wants to use popular software or play new games they need windows.
It will be true if people are unwilling to put in a little effort to demand better or stop using windows.
You want your games to run on something else? Don't buy them until they do. Sadly, most people are 100% unwilling to delay that instant gratification and sacrifice even the smallest convenience.
That's how we got here. You cannot expect change if you are unwilling to do anything to make it happen.
This is why sloth is a deadly sin.
Even if true, that doesn't mean you have to put up with it everywhere else.
I dual boot linux. These days, I only boot an extremely neutered Windows for most games or anything HDR, but basically for nothing else. Honestly a lot of old Windows stuff works better in Wine anyway.
You and I do this, but 99% if the world runs on ms. They wont change. My friend says it sounds exhausting to do anything like that.
Fair.
And it’s the default.
Eventually, OEMs might find all this stuff is hurting sales and start offering Linux. I think that would be huge, as 99% of buyers will just stick to the default.
Oh for sure. I've had my SO look over at my mint pc (they are on 10 still) and go woah that is awesome!! So i am trying to convince them to change over. I really dont want any windows pcs on my network. But they use vr which still isn't good on linux without a lot of work.
BTW you can share NTFS partitions with Windows and Linux, if that's your SO's concern.
I do this, and it works really well! This used to be an issue in Mint because its kernel was kinda old, but no more.
Obviously getting into partitioning is a lot of configuration for most people, but still.
no one wants to sit in their office talking to their computer verbally, its fucking awkward. Its cool on star trek as a means of exposition and plot, but not in real life.
Start fixing the actual architecture issue of Windows. An immutable base system and modular containerised app workflow might be a start, but we already have that in every other operating system
All those offices with open floorplans are just going to be a auditory nightmare, like some call center every single day.
So: an even more disempowering user experience.
Sounds like shit to me.
Opensuse still over here .... Just being a computer.
Gave my mom a machine with Mint, havent heard a peep out of her.
More gluant, juxtaposing and hereditary.
I too can just string adjectives together.
What is gluant? I couldn't find it in the dictionary.
Sticky
Seems logical. Glue, gluant, sticky.
I hadn't expected a dictionary search to come up empty, though.
I'm not native English speaker so maybe I just made it up mixing some other languages 😱🤓
More ephemeral, voluptuous and hydrogenous!
Oh, I love hydrangeas!
I'd rather it were more pulchritudinous, steatopygous and lubricious, but maybe that's just me.
If you want steatapygian software, Emacs is right there.
Yeah, that sounds exactly like what everybody were looking for in an OS. /s
I've been very happy to be using Linux for the past decade and a half, but never more so than now.
Microsoft: the biggest promoter for using Linux. "Our goal is to make Windows and it's apps so extremily repulsive even your grandma wants Linux instead. Because we care."
I love Windows 11 (the non-copilot+ version) and am positive on AI, but if they pull through with this vision, I WILL switch to Linux once Win11 support ends.
Why wait? Just jump in now and start distro hopping until you find something you like....
