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You won: Microsoft is walking back Windows 11’s AI overload — scaling down Copilot and rethinking Recall in a major shift (www.windowscentral.com)
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[–] 4 points 6 months ago (1 child)

It maybe used to be more true, but these days even when someone posts a decent guide on de-bloating Windows, it can A) Miss something critical, leaving spyware telemetry running, or B) Become out of date one month later when a Windows Update manually re-enables all the things you turned off.

I would've appreciated it when I was on Windows, but now? I'm kind of just happy not to be constantly fighting my OS on things, even if I do get compatibility annoyances.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    I appreciate what you're saying. I will agree 100% it's gotten worse. I use it because I have a software that will never work on anything else, and a piece of hardware that only has drivers for windows.

    I just find the argument to be disingenuous that Linux is this - to use the Ron Popwil catchphrase - set it and forget it OS. And I'm not suggesting you made that, but I see it often.

    And so because I'm stuck with my work software (which I will use until I die because retirement isn't real), I just don't feel like going over to Linux is going to somehow better my life. I get along more than fine on Windows, same as I always have. I do get the itch to try Linux though, just to see, and so the constant bombardment here on Lemmy might be working. I did try Red Hat briefly 20+ years ago, but that's about the limit of my experience. I wanted to take over a MUD that had gone extinct.

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