Great. Well I'm not pushing the update icon that's been waiting on me for a few days. If Copilot is invasive and can't be turned off, I may finally jump ship.
this post was submitted on 20 Oct 2025
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Microsoft is doing more for Linux adoption than anyone else ever has lol
Valve with Steamdeck and Proton development: “Am I a joke to you?”
They are helping, yes, but windows 11 is a driving force like I've never seen.
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Honestly, big shoutout to Microsoft for the strong push to get me in Linux's loving embrace.
Double shoutout to them for making it very easy to not even considering to come back.
That and backwards compatibility for Win7 & Win10. Shares of those OSs have gone up and several application developers have announced continued support or are advocating for unlocking/keeping secure those OSs.
Source?
And Mac.
Yes definitely, but mentioning anything good about Apple on Lemmy gets you stitches…
I mean there's good reason for that but MacOS is kinda in between Windows and Linux, in terms of usability and shitfuckery.
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Microsoft is so incredibly fucked when the AI bubble starts to burst. They've abandoned so many of their other projects and customers to go all-in on it.
I dunno. I feel like they are like the cable company now. They will jus sit there twiddling their nipples while we are all fucked.
I need the cable company (or similar) due to the fact that infrastructure is hard to deploy, and we need Internet to participate in society.
Nobody needs Microsoft cause every single one of their products has an alternative that's at least as good.
They survive by courting enterprises, but many of them can also switch away if they want.
On a personal basis that works, but they are so corporately entrenched that their products getting shitier matters quite little.
Nothing like FOSS when it comes to cost cutting.
Seriously this, it would take something like the PCI or SOX declaring Windows outside of compliance for Microsoft to die from bad business decisions in the US. Although German gov switching to Linux starts treading a path through
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Oh really, how bummed would they be?
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Hate to tell you, but we're all incredibly fucked. Least of all Microsoft. They know what they're doing. They most certainly already have a plan for recovery, as they know it's coming just as well as everyone else.
I keep parroting this, but in the next couple of years, I think there will be a couple of giants that fall. I work in ServiceNow and they, like many others, have gone all in on AI. Their problem is that they were slower than some, their solution is half baked at best, and it's prohibitively expensive. Nobody is paying 10s of thousands+ extra for the licensing to be able to run agents, and less are paying the extra licensing required for the users to be able to use that agent.
I've now been pulled into copilot studio, and yet again it's another product rushed to market that isn't ready for the big stage. Dog shit documentation and training material, and terrible environment design.
All of these big players have invested so much money in adding AI, nobody wants it, and now they're all hemoragging money.
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Making every Windows 11 PC an AI PC
Great, so everything runs locally, making it a self-contained “AI PC”. Otherwise, the headline surely would’ve been, “Making every PC collect data to train Microsoft’s models with little benefit in return“. Right?
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fuck off, not my shit you wont
The only reason I have a windows box is for gaming, specifically sims (racing and flying)
Ever more reason to test and see if the wheel and flight stick work under Proton.
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And for some reason when I buy a laptop I need to also pay for that disgusting spyware. How is this scam still going on?
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All with your permission and built upon the security of Windows 11.
So I can decline. Good.
You’re always in control of what Copilot Actions can do. Copilot Actions is turned off by default and you’re able to pause, take control or disable it at any time.
“With Gaming Copilot (Beta)” you can let the AI play the games for you. /s 🤡
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One more reason to restrict Windows to a VM and run Linux or some other *nix on the host for a baremetal OS if you want or need to run it at all.
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