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Glad I switched to Linux!!

We should keep in mind that thousands of people work at large corporations like Microsoft and many of them do not agree with company policy and positions, including people in senior roles.

Scott Hanselman is a VP at Microsoft who has given some of the best presentations on AI from a social, ethical, and technical demonstration standpoint that I have seen. I have been spreading his NDC London talk around to everyone I can: https://youtu.be/kYUicaho5k8

It is worth the watch.

Not even surprised

"Replacing software engineers with AI is really gonna pay off... some day... we guess..."

My wife continued to use Windows for her work because many of her clients are locked into the MS ecosystem. A few weeks ago a Windows update decided to corrupt her SSD and now she has finally joined me in Linux land. Good job Microsoft!

One thing junior devs at my company are taught early and often is that it's OK to look at a potential solution that an AI could come up with, just like it's OK to use stack overflow, but to never ever trust that solution without fully understanding it and usually simplifying it quite a bit.

I literally fixed a laptop for a family member, and thought I'd put Windows 11 on it because they may like the shiny new thing.
Articles like this are making me revert them to Windows 10 (IoT LTSC).

It sucks that Windows has gotten so bad

And that's why, as Windows 10 is about to expire, I am switching to Linux

My windows install started bluescreening a couple days ago and won't boot, might be this exact issue lmao, anyways, I got linux and neither the energy nor time to deal with microsoft's bullshit, I'm tempted to wipe that garbage off my disk for good

Outlook has spent the last 2 weeks freezing on me constantly, and Excel freezes with it. Absolutely painful, seriously thinking of jumping to Linux this year, with MSoft ending support for W10.

AI bad true, but there's no evidence this update did anything bad and ssd/hdd manufacturers and Microsoft have all come out after testing and said as much.

Negative placebo and gossip. Drives fail all the time, people (and media/youtubers for clickbait) see the headlines and blame the update.

https://www.techradar.com/computing/windows/microsoft-claims-windows-11-is-innocent-of-killing-ssds-but-the-mystery-continues

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ssds/phison-squashes-reports-of-windows-11-breaking-ssds-says-it-was-unable-to-reproduce-issues-despite-4-500-hours-of-testing-recommends-users-deploy-heatsinks-just-in-case

People witch hunting Phison too.

I fully switched to Linux this year: it's nice not having to worry about what Microsoft is up to.

I went into linux mint. I am certain, CERTAIN, that a windows 10 update probably caused a fundamental HD failure on my old computer. I have hard drives much older and more used than the one I had, yet that HD, which was the main HD I had started to fail. It gave enough life for me to back it up into a massive 14TB backup drive (I keep that one unplugged when not in use) so I didn't lose any data.

But HD failures are rare for me. I am fucking glad I was able to save the data. I need to put that drive to some old fashion electronic recycling.

I'm so glad I get to enjoy Linux every single day.

I switched to Linux Mint saldy I need Windows for some things so I dual booted. Got sick of that, so now I have a VM with Tiny11.