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Vast Number of Windows Users Refusing to Upgrade After Microsoft's Embrace of AI Slop (futurism.com)
submitted 10 months ago by [M] to c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world
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[–] 49 points 10 months ago (30 children)

Huge numbers of Windows users are refusing to upgrade to Windows 11 -- and many of them are citing its AI features as the reason why.

Spoiler: They're not. They're postponing. Eventually, they'll almost all give in to the bullying :(

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  • [–] 19 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    Windows 10 IoT LTSC is supported until 2032. That's a problem for future me...

    Hopefully by then I've switched to an employer that allows me to run Xubuntu in the office. Right now my hands are tied.

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  • [–] 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Narrator: He didn’t switch employers and was forced to run Windows 11.

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  • [–] 15 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    All my remaining W10 machines in the house are just in a holding pattern because I haven't bothered to move them over to Linux yet. For me (and hopefully many others), its just lack of free time and procrastination. There is zero chance they'll go to W11 for me personally.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Good luck with migrating over - my personal recommendation for advanced beginners: debian-based with XFCE (if you like lightweight desktop environments similar to Windows 2000)

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Oh, I already have several Linux PCs/servers, I just haven't migrated over kids' PCs or the HTPCs yet and they keep getting the ever more desperate and annoying full screen BS about moving to W11, getting a MS account, using One Drive, etc.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Good that games run better on Linux nowadays, at least in general :)

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah, the kids only play Stardew Valley and other games that I know are 100% fine on Linux. I was mostly worried about school related things, but apparently they are all web-based tools now, so I think that will have no issues.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Yup, lots of people are going to take the extra year of Windows 10 updates Microsoft is offering and put off upgrading until next year, but so many writers want to find meaning in people not upgrading as soon as 10 was technically EOL.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (7 children)

    True. The only reason my PC doesn't run W11 is because I can't be arsed to mess with the drive for that secure boot bollocks.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    What's the reasons not to try a Linux live boot though (Mint seems popular for first timers), and see if you like the look & feel? No need to install anything, but yes you need to disable secure boot possibly (temporarily to boot from USB)

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    Oh I've got a mini PC for Linux, and a Legion Go S for gaming, but I need my main one for work.

    Much easier to use Windows than convince thousands of customers to swap and rewrite 20 years of code in something else.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Ah, work. Understood. I migrated my work tasks away from stuff needing windows to avoid that dependency :)

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (3 children)

    I did advocate for Linux at one point, but any issues quickly became my issues for recommending it, so I stopped.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    I can see that happening... People somehow refuse to learn, yet at the same time they run to computer-savy family / friends whenever their windows breaks. I put a dead stop to Windows support for my parents ages ago - I told them "if you won't let me teach you how to help yourself, then I can't help you anymore"

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    Spoiler: They’re not. They’re postponing. Eventually, they’ll almost all give in to the bullying :(

    My primary laptop was Windows 10. Since Win11 was so different in interface, and sucked so much with MS AI+Onedrive force feeding, it was no different effort to switch to a different OS.

    I went with a Mac M2 system with OSX as my secondary OS, and Asahi Linux as my primary dual booting. So far I've only been in OSX for the initial user account creation and launch of the Asahi installer, but OSX is there to boot back to if I run into something commercially proprietary that simply doesn't run on Linux.

    I'm a couple of weeks into this config so far and am quite enjoying Linux OS on Mac hardware.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (4 children)

    I'd argue Mac hardware is a tad too expensive for a true Linux, but hey - main thing is that you enjoy it ;)

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (3 children)

    M2 is from 2022, its used hardware. I'm also pretty sure the OS does really care about the cost of the hardware. :)

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (2 children)

    I meant to say you have enough performance gain by using Linux that you can run it on cheaper Hardware, that's all :)

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    I get that. I never wanted to have to go back to Windows for proprietary things. Having a Mac meant I would have OSX to fall back to if needed instead.

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