It seems like we’re at a real turning point for Linux adoption. I’m an Apple nerd, but I love seeing people switch to Linux and write about what a (mostly) positive experience it is. Cheers to my fellow nerds getting off the screaming pile of garbage MS if forcing on people who just want a computer that works.
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After a win11 forced updated made my nontech 75 years old father laptop nearly useless he ask me if linux could give it a second life i’ve been a user for at least 15 years so i was more than happy to install it
His laptop is like a new one sure he had to learn a little after so long on windows but it’s mostly really user friendly now except for some minor problem everything work out of the box (wifi,bluetooth,printer etc)
I doubt microslop could ever get most new linux user back once they get the hang of it
"Fuck this shit…"
Forever. If by some miracle W12 rolls out and undoes all of this shit I’m still not going back.
Looking back, these will be the times that trump destroyed america and microsoft destroyed itself. Maybe america destroyed itself and trump was nothing more than the guy who squeezed the pimple.
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Lol. Buhbyeeeeee
lol
Lmao, even
Also, hi from bazzite, which runs the vast majority of games I’m interested in flawless, and usually with even better performance than W10 (let alone W11)
Hello! I am using bazzite-dx at the moment. I don't even game much, just doing dev work.
Ha. I thought this was from The Onion the first time I scrolled past it. What a hilarious joke. I hope it back fires so people and countries continue moving away from Windows.
countries continue moving away from Windows
you have to admit a huge percentage of people are just dumb enough to actually believe they need the thing they're being told they need, by the people who are selling them the thing.
but when a company spends decades doing shit that literally everyone hates, changing shit that no one asked to be changed, ignoring the changes people want, and now force-feeding this copilot bullshit that doesn't even work, which, again, NO ONE asked for-- fuck microsoft, and fuck their ~~windows~~ spyware
Didn't they have to pull a botched update like last week?
Source code or perish.
The problem is upper management. Without touching that there is no hope for improvement.
I personally just want a glorified calculator (that works on text too) I can trust in doing what I tell it to do. And not some "experience" that does all kinds of unspecified things in the background. But that's just me.
Wait, so you're telling ~~me~~ Dell that you don't want their new AI laptop? But it's how those ahead get, uh, behind, or whatever the buzz phrase is now.
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Let me guess: instead of improving their products, they're going to get the US security industrial complex to silence the critics.
"Improving", the agentic OS thing? Or did they step back from that?
In other news, doctor prescribes a bandaid to GSW victim
I haven't had any trust since in Windows since about mid Windows 7 and that was probably unfounded.
Hilarious
Are they, tho?
My 4 part plan to put Microsoft back on track.
1: Re-open support for Windows 10 until at least 2 years after the release date of the next version of Windows.
2: Commit to making the next version of Windows less intrusive, cleaner, more reliable, and a small as technically possible.
3: Fully fund the open source projects that Microsoft relies on for their products.
4: Make Co-pilot an optional toolkit that runs in the background, with tight, easily configured controls and hook-ins to other applications and data.
Please put me in charge of Microsoft. I'll do it for a measly 10 million dollars a year. You'll save so much on my salary alone, you practically can't afford not to hire me.
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The biggest problem is that even if they fix it, it will take ages for the people that left to believe it is actually fixed. We can't take MS's word for it... And even then we will have no trust they won't just slip right back into this hellscape a couple years (or months) down the line.
one quiet “merp merp” from a three-foot tuxedo in the back of an otherwise completely silent and unimpressed audience
Talk is cheap.