know who never pushed AI?
Linux.
know who has fixes or useful community support?
Linux.
know who doesn't scan your desktop every second to scrape your data?
Linux.
know who has the audacity to provide a free product and still doesn't sell your identity to the lowest bidders?
Linux.
holy shit, it's almost like Linux is the OS by the people for the people...
Remember: Companies don't learn lessons, they react to profits. They're 100% gonna boil the frog here.
They already did with 10. At this point even a funny smell is gonna rumble 'em
Messed with Ubuntu maybe a decade ago was the last Linux experience I had until recently replacing win11 with Fedora KDE on my main machine. Honestly feels like a breath of fresh air. Nothing is asking me to sync it to one drive. Everything is snappy and customizable. It’s clean and just feels pleasant to use. Not ever going back.
and this is why I use Linux. No forced AI nonsense being shoved down my neck.
i don’t believe it and am no longer giving them the chance to allow me to see it.
Microsoft hasn't made a decent OS since Windows 7, why would they start now?
Agreed. 2000 was fantastic, but that was 9 years before 7. Its been 17 years since 7.
Too little to late.. I already left and fell in love with Linux
Welcome! Isn't it a breath of fresh air to use an OS that isn't trying to turn your computer into an advertising and upselling platform? It has its issues, but it's a huge relief to escape the constant inundation from Microsoft.
(Obligatory: I use arch BTW)
Fucking Arch Users -- The Tesla Owners of the Linux World
But thankfully with no Elon
Same here. Got fed up after every damned update to subscribe to this, want to setup backup to cloud, setup office. Switched to Linux and now not a single subscription popup in sight. It’s been bliss. Spent the weekend with the misses sorting out 30 years of photos and getting to know exif editor 🫣
[edit] exif not exit editor.
Windows 11 felt like a downgrade before all the AI bs. Microsoft values me more as an advertising opportunity than a customer.
I think it's really easy for Lemmy users to assume that the general population has the same technological interest and literacy that they do.
The Windows 11 users they are talking about are from an /r/pcmasterrace thread.
The vast, vast majority of consumers don't give a shit. They don't care enough to even think about whether their computer is actually secure, they don't care that they don't own their OS, and they don't care that AI is being shoved in.
Their computer is a magic box to them, and they don't care to know more.
The one thing that I disagree with is that most people don't care about AI being shoved into everything. Studies are consistently showing that the vast majority of people don't use/hate AI being shoved into everything. 80% of phones users in one study, 90% on another study for DuckDuckGo IIRC, etc.
Fair, but they don't care enough to do anything about it.
I do think the vast majority of users see things like copliot all over the OS, and then watch their PC run like shit, and assume it's the new fandagled thing ruining their experience regardless of whether they care about AI or not.
I read "reevaluating its AI strategy on Windows 11" as "finding a more subtle way to shove that botulistic sausage down their customers throats".
Yeah, exactly, they never said they are removing any AI. Just will be slapping some paint on it.
The Start menu has gotten worse with every update. It is getting ridiculous.
I can no longer click start > type in the program I need > hit enter.
Start menu, you had one job!
Well funnily enough it was already broken even in Windows 10 half of the time, was pretty infuriating. But with Windows 11 they've outdone themselves
I moved it to the side when 16:9 screens became popular and vertical space was more limited.
Windows 11 removed this feature.
What sucks is - windows is the easiest to jump off. There are tons of viable alternatives.
There is nothing for mobile.
For mobile I can't recommend Graphene enough. Freedom from Google with no draw backs.
Assuming you have self control about keeping shite apps off your mobile, fastest and most private option there is.
I'd get on graphene in a second if they supported more than one phone, and I'm not buying a damn Pixel alright. Google if you don't and Google if you do.
Yeah I've heard of that, but so far it's just rumours. Hopefully it ends up being something reasonable.
100% with you there. Would enable the less nerdy people to benefit.
i'll never see it because i'm never using windows again
Microsoft's promises to fix the OS and stop pushing AI
Never heard such a promise.
Windows 11 feels like Microsoft is actively punishing me for being foolish enough to keep using their products. Adding some janky AI bullshit machine to this garbage fire feels now they're just taking the piss.
No they aren't. They don't care.
Do you believe them that they gonna stop AI? It's a billion investment that needs results for the shareholders!
Great news, you don't have to bother, just switch to Linux. I did, and I don't have to spend a single moment worrying about what Microsoft is doing to their garbage.
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