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Microsoft is silently installing Copilot onto Windows Server 2022 (mastodon.gamedev.place)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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[–] 85 points 2 years ago (14 children)

That is fucked.

I'm already starting to transition to full Linux on my devices with the arrival of Windows 11 and Windows 10 reaching end of life in October next year. I never thought I'd see the day of this happening.

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  • [–] 36 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    oh god, win10's dying next year?

    i really need to transition the rest of my shit to Linux soon

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Microsoft has been telegraphing these moves for years now tbh.

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  • [–] 32 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    That doesn't make it right.

    And not everyone can dump Windows for Linux. We run a lot of software that requires Windows. Changing is impractical if not impossible.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    it's becoming much much easier every year to switch to OSS alternatives or at least Linux compatible software. There's basically nothing categorical that can't run on Linux, even gaming is making tremendous strides.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    There’s basically nothing categorical that can’t run on Linux...

    From a desktop standpoint, I agree. From a business server infrastructure standpoint, I disagree completely. We run tons of software that doesn't run on Linux. Maybe there are alternatives, but there are other aspects in play (integrations with other services, vendor pricing, etc).

    It's not just desktops that people worry about.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    ITS THE YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP! 🥂

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I doubt it. Regular folks are ignorant about those issues and what the technology involved implies. AI sounds cool until you realize every single action you take on your computer, every single word you say, everything you look at, is collected and sent to some machine which does god knows what with it.

    That plus the ads. The fucking ads. I'm so god damn tl saturated of seeing ads everywhere. But apparently most folks have grown some kind of immunity to it??

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