I cannot understand why a user would ever want this
this post was submitted on 10 Jan 2026
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Windows, the first ever sloperating system.
Windows obsession with destroying their own file explorer is bizarre.
Looks cool. But holy crap. Windows search is so bad that you need everything.exe. now it's gotten to the point where we need a third party explorer to do the most basic tasks without being bombarded with ads or AI crap.
I just really... REALLY wish citrix and epic worked on Linux. I would switch in a heart beat if this gets pushed into the wild.
everything saved my work life
and I'm not even on windows 11 yet
The thing is that if MS concentrated on providing a bulletproof experience, a sane licensing mode, with a low, cheap, entry bar, they would just keep being the top dog forever.
Now they are just giving market share to Linux and MacOS for free.
it really is wild that they're pushing away so many people, who otherwise would just sit with them forever, just because profits must always increase
like all they have to do is stop making things worse and people will stay with them and continue joining them. that's literally all they have to do. and they can't do it.
This is just pure idiocy and desperation at this point.
I'm surprised at this. If I was given the job to fuck up windows, I wouldn't be able to get such ludicrous ideas
Install Linux Problem Solved.
Ah, that would explain why they started to allow uninstalling the separate app.
For those stuck on Windows, try double commander instead of explorer. It's cross-platform so you could use it on Linux too.
I've been on Directory Opus for many years, it's absolutely excellent and I struggle when on Linux without the same toolbox.
Well just earlier today, I installed Pop OS on an external drive. I'll be using that to see if I can use it as a daily driver. If I can, microsoft can eat the entirety of my arse.
Genuine question. How does all of this useless nonsense make them money? Is it all just from loans? Are they just saying "look at all the AI we're doing" and the investors are just desperate to give them more money?
I just cannot fathom how they profit from all of this. They're spending so much time doing this. For what? What is the business motive for doing this, if not to get bigger loans from their investors?
Copilot is falling very far behind all of the other big AI players in the space that it's actually laughable. The main reason they're implementing it into every Windows first party application is so they can boost their "user" numbers to satisfy investors. Every time you open Explorer, boom that counts as you "using" Copilot.
I asked DeepSeek something the other day and it actually admitted that it didn't know the answer and offered advice on how I could find out. I was actually pretty impressed by that
Is the share price going up? All they care about is the share price.
Down last few months, but overall strong upwards trend over the last few years.
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Nadella has gives exactly 0 fucks about Microsoft's products, legacy, its employees and the company itself, let alone the customers. His only concern is how can he squeeze more money from the white Dalits while enslaving Shudras and stealing their labour so he can further enrich himself. Anyone thinking otherwise is delusional.
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I just got a colonoscopy and the doc said she found some copilot in there
Terminal
Powershell, acktually
Powershell is such garbage. Every time I run it it takes 20 seconds to get to a working prompt.
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MS: JUST EAT IT
Microslop going full "the beatings will continue until morale improves" with their ensloppification of everything they touch, I see.
At this pace Microsoft will change Windows' name to Copilot. That's my prediction.
They're already changing the name of MS Office to "Microsoft Copilot App". So when you use Copilot inside Microsoft Office on Windows, you'll be running Copilot in the Copilot App on Copilot OS.
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I can already see them brainstorming how to put that stuff in the calculator app.
At least, they don't put it into the event viewer, because its source code has never seen a change. Looks like 10 years ago and the performance is as bad as then.
if you judge it by the standards of current system performance, the phrasing is more appropriately "as good as then"
and I hate that that is the case. like seriously, how do you fuck up file explorer (and I'm not talking about whatever this post is about that I haven't even opened yet, I'm talking about Windows 11 file explorer being essentially not functional)
Thank you Microslop!
Explorer already crashes enough without this.
Why don't they work on Explorer's awful performance and constant hanging before working in another chatbot?
You know, useful software development work?
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When I wanted the file search to not suck I didn’t mean that.
Users: File search should not be this bad
Microsoft: How about this bad?
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