The ol' switcherooski. Abruptly end support for your previous product, force people to buy all new hardware, then when everybody is on board you hit em with consumer-hostile monetization attempts. Classic Microsoft baby.
this post was submitted on 13 Nov 2025
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We're about to get that subscription model! Probably gonna be Adobe flavored. Steam Machine launching just in time.
I can’t shake the feeling that Win11 is part of the AI grift master-plan. They’re a big investor in OpenAI, and OpenAI needs to start showing large, genuine revenue. Locking both consumers and business customers into a subscription model for the largest OS by market share to fund this grift seems like exactly such collusion. The required minimum hardware requirements for Win11 feel like the big clue, here.
As far as I can tell, AI almost always makes a call to a remote server. So why do you need a powerful PC for that? You could do that on a 20 year old computer easily.
I tried AI on my MacBook to ask it how to fix my config. It just did an internet search and didn’t even check the setting on my computer.
It's certainly just going to end up being used as an advertising tool. Like the recent hype of trying to get people let AI do holiday shopping for them. Like the AI saw you opened paint, have you considered a subscription for Adobe cloud. You searched for cake recipes on Google and clicked links, why not sub to copilot+. It'll have text to speech AI as well
Former windows user here, ever since I used Win11 for the first time in 2022 I saw how buggy and useless it was. And it was clear to me that someday win10 will stop receiving updates.
I decided to get onto Linux and I am proud of myself that I tasted nearly all the distributions and tried them all.
Pure arch, Manjaro, EndeavourOS, CachyOS, Debian, Linux mint, Tuxedo OS, MX Linux, Zoroin OS, Nix OS, Alpine Linux, OpenSuse Tumbleweed, Kali Linux, Fedora KDE, Fedora Workstation, Fedora KDE Silverblue, etc.
Linux mint, Tuxedo OS, MX Linux, ZoroinOS are the best for new comers from Windows and all are based on Debian.
That's awesome! :) Did you land on a favourite for day-to-day stuff? I had the exact same pipeline - windows 11 was announced, and Mint went on days later! :) I love Kubuntu at the moment, and tried PopOS as well. :)
I actually found pure Debian to be perfect for me as a newcomer a few years back.
Maybe stick to AM4 and processors for now that don't have AI feature? I have AM4, it works perfect and I haven't had to upgrade yet. I think there would be a way to disable all of the AI, like with app OOSU10 or tron. Second option would be to install Linux OS and use Wine for any Windows app and for anything buggy that wouldn't work well, using a vm for it.
Speaking of, there's VPNs or you could use PIHole to block Microsoft's telemetry and AI ips.
Speaking of, there's VPNs or you could use PIHole to block Microsoft's telemetry and AI ips.
That game of cat and mouse would get very tiresome very fast and Microsoft would win in the end. Better to hope for new vwrsions of Tiny11 or one of those debloater scripts to disable the AI features entirely, but they'd probably be reinstated with every update. Maybe use a hook to re-run the script after every update? I don't even know if that's possible in Windows.
Thankfully I've been Microsoft free for years now so I don't have to know. Linux is a blessing.
Writing as a new CachyOS user, this is like finishing a move from Florida to New York, and then learning there's another two hurricanes headed for your old hometown.
Legitimately. Fedora Bluefin here. Giving the atomic thing a try 😁
Microsoft [...] gets massive backlash
Pretty much since the release of Windows 10, Microsoft has been getting backlash because of the invasive, hostile and insane decisions they make and force on their users. It's gotten particularly vocal since W11 and the EOL of Windows 10.
Yet, everybody seems to eat the plate of shit MS serves them. They complain, but most people dont seem to want to put in effort to rid themselves of Microsoft.
I could cry.
Windows 11 made me a Linux user. I stopped eating their shit.
Microsoft […] gets massive backlash
"Fine, then we're going to do it twice as hard and half as good!" -Microsoft
Windows 8.1 made me a Linux user.
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If only my computer was constantly hooked up to cloud AI watching everything I do! -No one ever.
There must be some unaccounted for survivorship bias in the data for the MS to get it this wrong. Not even about agenda just PR they are operating on bad assumptions which is just bad for business.
Well yes, that data source is called stockholders. They eed to ride the hype. Honestly they really don't have much choice. Either make the users happy or the stockholders. They can't do both, it's impossible at this stage. Want to guess which side wins?
That doesn't make sense it's just mindless anti capitalist sentiment which is fun and all but it isn't getting us anywhere.
I wonder if they're asking their AI.
Iam even more happy to be using Linux 😎
Yeah the ones who went that path now can be super happy about it. We have the best desktop in the world.
this phrasing had to be intentional xD no social media worker can be this clueless
I think the same about the sandwich company that asked people to share how they "top their subs".
Damn I really missed my opportunity
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Microsoft's Windows chief Pavan Davuluri had earlier hinted at such plans already about how the next evolution of OS will make it capable enough to "semantically understand you" as Windows will get "more ambient, more pervasive, more multi-modal". Using features like Copilot Vision it will be able to "look at your screen" and do more.
Since when did corpos try to reframe the word "pervasive" as something positive?
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I hate how tech companies just constantly want to change everything.
Just give me something usable that I can get shit done with and fuck off. I don't want your changes and updates and new feature.
It's about keeping us guessing and reminding us who's in charge.
They don't want us to get attached to things.
That's one thing I love about FOSS, that the only stakeholders are the devs and the users. The goal is to make software that's good at what it does.
When it comes to any tech company's product, you not only have all the stakeholders that corrupt the end product, but you have giant teams of marketers, designers, engineers, and managers that need to constantly justify their existence and or be efficiently utilized at all times.
Honestly it's like lesser version of enshittification, the tendency of commercial products to always be changing things.
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I love watching users of proprietary software suffer.
Hang'em high!
The best part here is that, when the AI bubble pops, AI will become a dirty word for a while before settling in some, much smaller, feature.
MS is going all gas no brakes on AI and when that bubble pops, their entire ecosystem will be toxic and laughable
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