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Bullshit and too late, bitches
don't believe it. ms is in for the long game.
LOL, I won when I installed Mint.
Cheers
Too late! That and requiring TPM and SecureBoot made me switch. I love it.
Thats bad actually, the free advertising to linux was a good thing. Now Windows users will slip back into apathy.
Windows will continue to degrade as Microsoft fires more of its professional staff and turns to "Vibes Coding" for increasingly delicate systems development. They'll keep pushing out the OS as a vector for unwanted third-party advertisements. They'll keep ratcheting user control of the OS away from the hardware owners. And they'll keep injecting bloatware into their applications and services.
This isn't the end of enshitification. It is a brief retreat and regrouping by a company that has invested tens of billions of dollars into the AI sunk cost.
I hope you're right because I am enjoying Microsoft's failures and I would like them to continue.
I wish these were proper failures. They're such an entrenched monopoly, a whole lot would have to change before a $3.2T company sees any kind of tangible penalties.
The only thing they're rethinking is how to repackage this so people accept it. They learned a lot from this, but I promise you it wasn't the right lesson.
Won? They will do it again. The only winning move is not to play their game. Choose Free Software.
Genuine question: What do you recommend? I want to replace Windows 10 on a 8-year-old midrange laptop with something that works reasonably well in terms of performance with a connected 4K monitor.
I've already tried Ubuntu, but unfortunately the experience has been marred by bugs such as poor performance, visual glitches, windows jumping around when attempting to move them, and DPI settings not being able to be applied per screen.
I am more impressed you got windows 10 to work well on 8 year old computers ngl. I had an HP pavillion around that age and it had torturingly low startup speed.
Definetely try mint-cinnamon and mint-xfce4, latter one uses xfce4 which has very good performance.
A lot of experienced users will find linux run without bugs for them but that's because it's an OS that gets better as you learn more.
In my case battery life was 2 hours on windows and 1.5 hours on linux. But once I past the skill-curve I tweaked it to be 6 hours because I knew how to find what caused the problem and fix it.
Either that or there is the IT-guy effect going on where once an experienced user shows up the aura just makes computers work normal again lmao.
I've had more luck with Mint, thanks to its Windows-adjacent GUI and user-friendly on ramp. Still encountered a few issues (a couple of peripherals that didn't support Linux drivers). But on the whole, it's improved system performance over Win10 and synced smoothly with my workstation.
Linux is definitely the route. A lot of people use Mint or Ubuntu. But they are usually running out of date drivers.
I'd recommend looking into distros based on Fedora Workstation. It stays up to date but not as much as Arch so that it's stable.
My recommendation is any of the Universal Blue images that fit your need. They are based off of the Fedora Atomic image with added quality of life features.
If you identify your laptop (including model number) someone who has the same hardware might be able to make a solid recommendation.
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I read "a major shit"
common freudian slip when talking about windows
Oh, and only now am I re-reading it to see that's not what it actually said...
It mostly looks like a mild slow down of user-facing release and rebrand of unpopular features.
It is not a retreat. The marketing team is just trying to figure out how to reframe things that caused public backlash.
It would be nice if they change the Office app back to its old name, rather than M365 Copilot or whatever insane nonsense they picked. They should also review their corporate culture, and how the way they set performance rewards leads to insane unintended consequences across the company.
Office has been Microsoft 365 for five years now. They added "Copilot" to the name at some point last year, but it's been M365 for a while.
Tbf 5 years ago is 2021 and I remember disliking Microsoft's decisions even back then.
Oh, absolutely--but back then it was just normal, ordinary platform decay, not the sparkling AI hellscape of today.
Microslop Microslop Microslop. Microslop?
Microslop.
Too late, trust is already gone and im old enough to know all of this is CEOs bullshit and pure marketing.
Too little too late. I'm already over to Linux now. Shit's been going downhill even before this whole AI craze went off the rails. I hope Microsoft Windows crashes and burns
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Understand that they're not doing this because of user feedback; they're doing this because shareholders got cold feet about the whole thing after the backlash (so indirectly it's still down to user feedback, but not really)
I haven't won until Microslop is a company that is used in past tense.
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Stop using Windows any, it's a US company that's too large.
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...for now.
I swear. Society at large will never learn from Microsoft's games.
I've won when everybody gets the principles of free software philosophy, along with other essential freedoms, free roaming, free speech, free assembly, free press, free energy, free healthcare, etc.
It's the freedom.
Free to use, study, share, change.
The Free Software Definition
The free software definition presents the criteria for whether a particular software program qualifies as free software. From time to time we revise this definition, to clarify it or to resolve questions about subtle issues. See the History section below for a list of changes that affect the definition of free software.
The four essential freedoms
A program is free software if the program's users have the four essential freedoms: [1]
- The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose (freedom 0).
- The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
- The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help others (freedom 2).
- The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others (freedom 3). By doing this you can give the whole community a chance to benefit from your changes. Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
A program is free software if it gives users adequately all of these freedoms. Otherwise, it is nonfree. While we can distinguish various nonfree distribution schemes in terms of how far they fall short of being free, we consider them all equally unethical.
In any given scenario, these freedoms must apply to whatever code we plan to make use of, or lead others to make use of. For instance, consider a program A which automatically launches a program B to handle some cases. If we plan to distribute A as it stands, that implies users will need B, so we need to judge whether both A and B are free. However, if we plan to modify A so that it doesn't use B, only A needs to be free; B is not pertinent to that plan.
"Microsoft is walking back Windows 11’s AI overload — scaling down Copilot and rethinking Recall in a major shift" For Now.
Give them 6-8 months, they'll shove it back in quietly in a way you can't see it happening as easily.
Absolutely.
This just means "We pushed our crap too fast and people noticed, so we're letting things cool off slightly to quiet down the critics, and next time we'll boil the frog more slowly."
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According to people familiar with Microsoft’s plans
Might as well get your information from psychedelic mushrooms.
I am kinda glad they went to shit so quickly. If it were slow, I probably would never have gone fully Linux. Now, I have all 5 of my machines free of corporate spyware. I am having fun again configuring and learning. Thanks microslop! I needed the push.
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I won? Of course I did, I don't use Windows anymore, I've been using Linux for years now.
The irony of having a copilot and right below this post
Why does your lemmy client have ads?
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I got a popup on my work PC 5 mins ago advertising co pilot. 
At least it does not say "i will try it later"
I think it will come back. Given that its using a system notification to suggest an app that is suggested to me in every app I open, pinned to my taskbar, pinned to my start menu and built into my keyboard.
"This is going very poorly, we will pretend to listen to our customers so it looks like we are course correcting, winning favor with investors and customers (big businesses, not home users)."
They may even switch CEOs if the situation worsens, but the practices remain.
Yeah, i'm never going back to that dumpster fire OS.
Too late. I've already left. Never again.
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