Just because of your rant windows will add a fourth settings menu, also with different design, it will blend award winning design of modern tile settings menu and registry editor power via ai commands changing registry keys from futuristic copilot enabled design
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That sounds like an utterly broken nightmare.
Please do not give them any more bad ideas.
it will be audio only
His uncle works at ~~nintendo~~ Microsoft.
I switched to Debian (with KDE) from Windows 10 (me upgrading my pc screwed something up somehow and was unable to actually get 11) and it seems like 90% of the things preventing me from committing to switching to Linux are now fixed.
Plus it looks great. Windows on my PC has its days numbered, until I finish transferring all my stuff from one drive to the other.
It's pretty good, huh?
Soon enough you'll be getting the distrohopping bug... Just remember, most of the time, you don't want or need a new distro, you just want a new DE (and you don't need it, you just want it). I've had to remind myself of that a few times.
Are there linux distros that work on apple silicon?
Asahi Linux, although it's missing some features right now and doesn't work on M3s or M4s
Fedora asahi remix for m1 and m2 macs.

One of the things that I've slowly gotten more and more irritated about to the point that now it absolutely pisses me off is the way these apps make their advanced markov chains have a persona and pretend to be a person.
The way they use pronouns "I" and "my" "me" drives me mad. It is an APP. It should not be pretending to be a person at all. This gimmick angers me, I tell the stupid thing not to do it every time I feel like torturing myself by using one.
I feel considerably better when it behaves like an app should behave and doesn't pretend it is a person or individual.
This, so much. I do not need software that pretends to be a human! Even if it wasn't worse than useless, I'd still hate that part. I do not talk to computers and I do not want the computers to talk to me. It's creepy.
Honestly so excited about this for a corporate drone perspective as we play cat and mouse to lock people out of copilot and others. New vibe coded updates seem to have some spectacular failure every patch Tuesday. The computer has suddenly started lieing and it's microsoft's fault.
Why am I excited? because this system is becoming untenable and doing the fuckers unbelievable reputational damage. The best is part how Microsoft will never backdown from this madness. I don't think it's the terminals that scare people but change does. Microsoft is forcing that change relentlessly on something their livlihood relies on. The selling point there is that you can run the same version of rocky linux for 10 years.
Let's be real too. Your relatives aren't going to be buying new hardware. Very few of us are going to afford it now. They are going to be amazed how fast and efficient even a KDE desktop is and it's going to give them fuzzy memories of Windows 7.
KDE's neat, but I like Cinnamon myself. Good warm fuzzy Windows XP memories. Especially with an actual Windows XP theme. ; ) (The secret's in changing the system sounds out for some of the default Windows XP ones. That's what really makes the warm fuzzy nostalgia hit, more than the right shades of blue and green and the right shape on the menu button and the rounded windows.)
Yeah, that's about what I've been thinking. Eventually people who have no clue about computers will hear about and try Linux, if Windows keeps becoming more and more unusable and unstable. Because Linux might be a little weird, but good old Debian is unbeatable for stability. And at a certain point, all people want is an Internet and office software machine that doesn't crash daily and doesn't get a new wheel-of-slop-and-broken-features update every week.
Eventually people who have no clue about computers will hear about and try Linux, if Windows keeps becoming more and more unusable and unstable.
it me. I’ve been too busy to get it started - but have been setting up an older enterprise computer as a “sandbox” to learn how to use a different OS. Shouldn’t be too hard though- I once figured out how to print “Hello World”. Fr though I wish I was better with coding- I’ve done a decent amount of work with SQL, various Python applications, R, matlab, Arcade, Visual Basic, etc but somehow have managed to glean few useable skills from those experiences 
I mean, that's me too. I'm definitely not your stereotypical Linux nerd, but I, essentially, tried it out in anger and just kinda realised how much I truly hate Windows and that I don't have to put up with it and that feels great.
I assumed everyone else was born with the knowledge but me lol. I’ve been steadily switching to all FOSS programs which is already a nice change from MS office. And like I said, with my limited experience I at least somewhat understand how computers work. So, agreed, it’s a matter of applying that annoyance in a productive way!
I don’t own thigh high socks - but maybe if I pull on a pair of soccer socks extra high it’ll buff my programming skills
I don't own any programming socks either... or the matching cat ears.
I do have a set of Tigger ears, though!
But I don't know if they buff my computer skills or if they just make me feel more like a little kid again and thus less scared of breaking something.
Microsoft Fans
I'm surprised they exist
I know my brother had at least bought into the prestige at one point when he joined an engineer team there; and believe it or not that all evaporated fairly quickly after starting lol. And that was before they started forcing engineers to use “AI” for coding - can’t imagine that’s made things better
Probably just middle managers of large companies that are entirely dependent on Microsoft products, I can't imagine any end user being at all enthusiastic about a Microsoft product.
I think you should meet my dad. At least, he used to be really enthusiastic about most stuff Microslop made. I think he's less extreme about it now, but he definitely doesn't hate them with a burning passion or have the other typical end user attitude of apathy.
People who crap their dacks when they see *nix are probably not using the command prompt tbf. That said I would love to see a greater uptake of Linux, I'm half considering switching over with my laptop but I mostly use it for gaming and I (1) don't know just how many of my games work with WINE/proton (never used either) and (2) don't know how I would go about restoring my windows install if it goes south. Not really a show stopper. I have a legit license so obviously it's doable, plus my closest friend works as a sysadmin and is in the final year of his degree in computer science. But it has no removable drive which would be a first for me to install a new os on, and I don't want to have to sort it out, y'know? I'm confident installing Linux from USB but I don't know how it works with windows.
Once I'm back in the workforce I may put together a cheap, small form factor PC to run Linux on and get my confidence back with it - it must've been over a decade since I last used it in anger...
I switched to Linux mint last year and haven't had much problems when gaming. Every game I've tried is compatible with proton or wine, the only complication I've had is modding Fallout 4 being a bit more complicated, but that works as well. I highly recommend switching, especially since Linux doesn't carry bloatware and spyware owned by Microsoft
Your laptop's storage isn't removable??
There are laptops with soldered storage, not as common as soldered RAM but they're out there.
Well... No, not really. It's an SSD. I'm not replacing it if I can help it. No optical drive or equivalent.
Eh, you'd be surprised who you'll meet in certain "tech nerd" circles. Not a lot of people who are comfortable with Windows command prompt and other advanced tools, but shit a brick when they see *nix or just don't like it for reasons even they can't really articulate, but they do exist.
Terminals are how you look like a 1337 h4xx0r in front of friends and family.
I love 'em in theory!
In practice, they're kind of scary, I have no idea how to find out how to use it, and of the things I do have some idea how to do, I can do faster with a graphical tool I'm more familiar with.
It's definitely intimidating at first but cheat sheets (or straight up googling) can help with a lot of stuff. But in modern Linux, you also don't really need the terminal for a lot of things; mainly just installing software or updating. So you don't need to know a lot about it.
If I ever see any copilot bullshit in my operating system, I'm literally going on a killing spree
Copilot would probably egg you on too
Well, there's one surefire way to avoid it. Don't use any Microslop products.
But yeah, it'd be nice if they'd just make a functional and uncluttered OS and actually try to compete in that market instead of shooting themselves in the foot and coasting on enterprise and "it came with my prebuilt computer".
Windows 14 is just an injection
Number of people who are terrified of a *nix terminal but who are willing and able to use the windows command line and edit their registry is 0.
You have invented a person to get mad at, I'm pretty sure.
You have invented a person to get mad at, I'm pretty sure.

Have you never interacted with people who use microsoft or apple products?
A friend of mine who is new to pc gaming was afraid to download a mod from nexus... So I think it's plausible there are people like that out there
These people do exist. I have met them. I have argued with them. I know someone well who is probably that person, but to find out would reveal to them that I know anything at all about computers and would lead to them attempting to bait me into having arguments that are counterproductive and wasteful and therefore I don't wish to start them.