I’ve often wondered what new and innovative ways Microsoft could find to make my computer even less likely to do what I want.
But AI, bro
Bro, remember when VR was all the rage? EVERYTHING was pushing VR, so much so
FacebookMeta went all in on it.Now it’s a fucking novelty at best.
VR is great, just unfortunate still lacking software. Half Life Alyx and GT7 are amazing experiences unlike anything without VR. Meta’s shit I haven’t tried but on more powerful, Facebook free platforms there’s a lot of great stuff.
He wasn’t talking about games.
Glad you enjoy playing with your toy though, thanks for the review.
Remeber when 3D was all the rage? 3D monitors 3D tvs, every fucking movie was in 3D. And…now it’s a novelty at best.
I would pay more at a theatre to not watch it in 3D
Right? I mean… movies are too expensive to see in theaters now… but I would too if I had the money.
It’s very obvious that they rushed Copilot. What should have been an assistant like Jarvis in Iron Man, has literally no purpose and can’t do anything useful.
Watch your mouth or Clippy is coming back…
This might just be the push I need to switch to Linux desktop.
Do it. With proton the last argument for me to use windows is gone (gaming).
Well, it’s not GONE. There are still plenty of games that won’t run well on Linux, or they won’t allow online multiplayer because their anti-cheat software is restricted to Windows. But that number is getting smaller every day.
But there are so very many games that do work. That those that do not, i can easily ignore.
Thats why I specified that, for me, that was enough to switch. I agree that proton isnt there yet and 100% compatibility, and we will probably never get to that. But there are enough games on the market for me to do 90% of my gaming on Linux these days.
Yeah and it’s getting closer all the time. I don’t think we’re that far from a “tipping point” where Windows gets so shitty, and simultaneously Linux gets so good (for gaming specifically) that it would be silly not to switch.
Any day now…
Meh. I don’t play multiplayer games at all other than FFXIV and that I haven’t played in over a year. The only thing that would deter me is some visual novels I play are windows only but I could probably just run them in a virtual machine as they’re not demanding.
Games like that just reinforce that a large segment of the gaming population will prioritize Windows, and developers go where the players are. I used to dual boot windows but now run windows as a VM with a VFIO gpu. Works great but it’s annoying to need that for just a few applications.
Can you run Adobe software via proton? As soon as that works I’ll be on Linux.
Look at your usecase, if it really requires adobe suite, you are out of luck i’m afraid. Perhaps you could research running a VM or wine, but I havent tried any of that myself.
If you conclude that you dont need features exclusive to adobe you might be able to find a foss alternative.
I need Lightroom and I’ve tried Darktable but it just doesn’t cut it.
I’m just waiting for full real parity (HDR, and some RT stuff), and I’m gone.
[5 years later]
“it wasn’t”
Lol, every single Microsoft article has this comment.
Do it.
Dooooooittttttt!
About a month ago Windows 11 started forcing ads for apps and services I didn’t need. Immediately installed a popular Linux distribution to have some peace of mind. There’s every flavor of desktop out there. I picked one for work and games (pop_os). It’s out of my way most of the time and it’s not trying to sell me anything. I recommend it, specially, if you’re someone that doesn’t fiddle with settings too much, it just work.
if you’re using windows in 2023, I doubt it
I use Windows, macOS, and Linux, but all in separate ways. Haven’t used a desktop Linux in quite some time — only headless Linux servers.
Why? I switched to Linux in 2023.
Microsoft may replace the Start button with the Copilot AI in Windows 12
Yeah, they could also replace the start button with a shit emoji. But there’s no indication at all anybody wants to do any of that because they’re not idiots. You only said that so people visit your shitty website. In fact, not even the quote you reference for your article suggests any plans of replacing the start button whatsoever:
“The Copilot is like the Start button,” Nadella explains. “It becomes the orchestrator of all your app experiences. So for example, I just go there and express my intent and it either navigates me to an application or it brings the application to the Copilot, so it helps me learn, query and create — and completely changes, I think, the user habits.”
Fuck clickbait headlines and fuck websites bending any and all content to the SEO voodoo.
lemmy reddit is basically a misleading clickbait megaphone
And everybody’s just happy to bitch about whatever the headline suggests without ever checking if it’s even true.
I love this idea. The reason people continue using Windows is because they’re used to it. Messing with the Start button is going to piss off even the most patient users. Not to mention it’ll be an absolute nightmare for any IT department. Just imagine an army of Karens calling your hotline first thing on Monday morning, yelling at you because you took away the Start button. It’ll make Windows 8 look like a huge success.
I feel like things like Classic Shell (or whatever the go-to alternative is nowadays) are just going to make bank from enterprise customers suddenly wanting to make their desktops usable for the average user.
Doubtful. It’s hard enough to get programs past our security team and having half malware bundled programs like this won’t be an easy task.
Which is why this is obviously just a shitty clickbait headline. Have you read the article? Nobody is planning to replace the start button but they could and that’s enough for tech “journalism” these days.
I too, think the Windows start menu is way too responsive and not buggy enough. /s
It used to be when it was basically just a folder of shortcuts. Since the metro interface the start menu has been getting worse and slower.
I only know of Win 7 and Win 10, never touch 8, 8.1 nor 11. I still use win10 at work and the start menu is very odd. I like to use the win key to summon the menu and search, but the behavior is very inconsistant, sometimes it’s fast, sometimes very slow, sometimes I can search, sometimes not, sometimes it gives me the file/app i am looking for, and sometimes it decides to go for bing results. I must admit, I actully never ever navigate the menu itself appart from turning off the laptop. It is a very slow and inefficient design element in my opinon.
Weirdly enough the windows 11 start menu has gotten better.
I personally don’t find anything I like about the win11 start menu, it feels like such a huge step backwards to me
Come, yer tired souls, to the Kingdom of Torvalds.
- Start menu is whatever you want it to be
- Search works
- No ads
- No spyware
- No drivers to install (except Nvidia)
Fuck Nvidia.
Also:
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upgrades don’t need forced restarts
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major OS versions are, usually, non-breaking
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new DE… same as the old DE but may contain new features. Long live the DE!
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Every day we stray closer to Linux.
I use arch btw
Ahhhh finally time to give Linux a try
Go with Linux Mint, you won’t be disappointed
I’ll try it!
“Oh, don’t tell me what to be disappointed with!”
All the “X company may/could/might” and “X plans on this” news feel like they’re just feeling for a reaction from the public to see what they can and can’t get away with. If it gets too much push back, they just put it on the shelf and boil the frogs for longer before trying again, like with Google and WEI. It’s tiring. Stop being evil you corpo fucks.
This type of information, encourages me to move quickly to a linux distro of choice.
Agreed. I have already been contemplating it. When they finally brick my Windows 10 desktop I will be switching for sure.
encourages me to move quickly to a linux distro of choice.
Fedora, Steam, Bottles.
Fedora/KDE for the quality support and stability of your Linux distro, Steam for, well, Steam, and Bottles for non-Steam games, that still lets you launch those games from inside Steam.
I almost switched around the 2007 to 2010 timeframe but they got a lot better with 7 and PowerShell closed the deal for me.
I’m now working more Linux into my daily usage to get a feel for what I’d need to do if I switch, and start solving those problems now, because if they do go this way, I’m probably going to jump ship. And they’ve made it even easier since I can still have PowerShell and C# and .NET on Linux now!
I am planning to change/ move to Ubuntu LTS during coming summer. Currently studying at university & don’t want disruptions with study activities. Compatibility issues etc.
For someone graduating in entrepreneurship, i believe Ubuntu with other open source software will be sufficient towards my main objectives at work life.
Hope I can ride the 10 wave as long as I rode XP.
We need a 10.XP version
How many times has Windows tried to kill off the start menu!? I can think of at least three:
- Windows 8
- Windows 10’s funky live tiles thing (by default).
- This strange Windows 12 AI junk
Windows 10 didn’t have live tiles, that was 8.
Windows 12 is not a product that exists and there are no plans to replace the start button.
You can think of one.
Time to experiment with Linux again. Still haven’t settled on a distro that I liked 100%.
been distrohoping for a long time, tumbleweed kde changed that…
been using it for almost 2 years now.Tumbleweed KDE is definitely sweet. Can also recommend Fedora.
TBH you don’t have to find the perfect distro - just one that is better than the BS Microsoft peddles. And that gets easier and easier.
Meanwhile in the category of “useless bullshit nobody asked for” we have Microsoft. Again.
I might replace Microsoft with Linux in Windows 12
I’ve just done exactly that, now dual booted with Linux mint, once I iron out the (specifically my) kinks, win10 will get put in a VM for emergencies.
