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Make Microsoft's CEO cry by installing Chrome's 'Microslop' extension (www.pcworld.com)

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A Chrome extension called “Microsoft to Microslop” that renames Microsoft references in browsers as a protest against the company’s aggressive AI integration.
The extension reflects widespread user frustration with Microsoft’s Copilot AI, which faces extremely low adoption rates and growing privacy concerns among Windows users.
Many users actively seek ways to remove AI features from Windows, highlighting significant backlash against Microsoft’s AI strategy despite CEO dismissals of complaints.

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[–] skaffi@infosec.pub 22 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

Avoid Ubuntu - it's made by the Microsoft of the Linux world. If you want an easy transition from Windows specifically, then you really ought to run KDE Plasma as your desktop environment, as that is by far the most similar to Windows in terms of look, layout and workflow, and it is very flexible in what can be changed and adjusted. GNOME is the other big one, but it feels more Mac-like or tablet-like.

It's preferable to pick one of those two, as they support the modern Wayland protocol, whereas other desktop environments still only support X11 or only partially support Wayland - I don't want to infodump on you right now, but suffice to say that Wayland is more secure, and is widely regarded as the future of Linux, while the old X11 has security issues, and is only in maintenance mode now.

Mint, for whatever reason, and unlike almost every other distro, doesn't come with KDE Plasma as an option. I would recommend Fedora - it's very solid and well developed, an all purposes workhorse that can do anything you need it to, and it's a first class citizen anywhere, since it is one of the most commonly used distros by far. My runner-up would be OpenSUSE. If you're dead set on something Ubuntu-based, then I would take a look at Tuxedo OS, or perhaps just going back to the roots, and install Debian.

[–] ieGod@lemmy.zip 10 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I'm definitely not knowledgeable enough to contrast and compare linux distros but I'll chime in with my experience for two years now on Pop!_OS.

So far, I'm super happy! Was simple to install and setup. Aside from Photoshop, there's nothing I miss, and when in a pinch I've got photopea ready to go. I've got steam on there for gaming with little to no issues. My ds4 Bluetooth works out of the box, better than it did on windows. The options for how to install apps are great (love the pop shop 'app store').

I do a lot of go development using vscode (happy to try an alternative but the go ecosystem and plugin support is fantastic for vscode) and it's smooth sailing.

My biggest hiccups were trying to use experimental nvidia drivers but rolling back to stable releases wasn't too painful.

[–] buffing_lecturer@leminal.space 1 points 2 hours ago

Vscodium might be an option for you

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 1 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

The only issue with Fedora, and it isn't a big one, is that the maintainers are adament about only including OSS. This isn't much of an issue except that it doesn't come with some video codecs IIRC. This meant that some videos online wouldn't play until you add the codec. This isn't hard, but it is a small frustration point for casual users.

[–] CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 1 points 25 seconds ago

Go with Bazzite. It's built off of Bluefin which is an atomic version of Fedora.

Bazzite has all the accoutrements for gaming built into it.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 hours ago

its not because they are adamant about OSS, but because the H.264 and H.265 codecs have software patents that require distributors paying a license fee. the situation is a bit unclear, that's why some distros choose to distribute these drivers. Besides fedora, opensuse and others too do not distribute these drivers.

but flatpak versions of software will get downloaded along with these drivers, and that will work on any distro, because flathub decided they can distribute these drivers. bit of a courageous move, but I guess they know what they are doing.

[–] buttmasterflex@piefed.social 4 points 20 hours ago

Second vote for Fedora. I set up my wife's laptop with Fedora KDE, and she uses it with no issues. She gets easily frustrated by tech hiccups, and Fedora KDE just works for her.