Microsoft's decision to push ai features into their OS got me to remove windows and install Linux this year. After gaming on windows pcs for 30 years, I'm now gaming on Linux and honestly, couldn't be happier.
I have a basic music player web app that can run decent on the cheapest android phones. It's buggy but has been pretty solid on my 3k$ pc (lmao).
Yesterday it was so sluggish I had to disable every other app on Windows AND restart AND disable my network (bcus who knows wtf windows is doing in the background). It ran fine (normal) after that.
Windows is so unbearable, my Mac and Linux (former ms) laptop from 6+ years ago operate better than this pc it's driving me up a wall.
MS is literally stealing my pc specs, they don't know wtf they're doing
The combination of hardware requirements and AI pushing by Microsoft is succeeding in finally making "Year of the Linux Desktop" a reality. Continual attempts at forcing AI on users, that don't want it, is only going to help more rapidly decrease their desktop OS market share.
My big company is all in on Copilot. So far it’s actually been a net plus. I like it and it makes my life easier. That said, when offered a PC or Mac I chose the Mac, because Recall. And all the Microsoft shenanigans on my home PC made me switch to Linux permanently.
If Windows at home ran like Windows does on corporate PCs, people would like it better. They’re biffing that hard.
Uninstalled Windows for Ubuntu a few months ago and never looked back. The constant coercion to get you to use their shitty products is unbearable. I want my operating system to get out of my way and let me work.
Users have "brutally rejected" pretty much everything that Microsoft have done since MS-DOS. Some cohort of users will get incredibly angry about any conceivable change to mature software. Add in the people who passionately hate anything AI-adjacent and you've got a recipe for a social media firestorm that probably doesn't accurately reflect the sentiment of the average user.
Personally, I think that Copilot for Work is a good product that does useful things. I use it daily. It isn't particularly groundbreaking, but it's nicely integrated with the wider 365 ecosystem and it has saved me a bunch of time on tedious tasks. The usual LLM caveats apply, but I just don't get why someone would be so annoyed by an entirely optional feature.
> Users brutually reject Microsoft's "Copilot for work" in Edge and Windows 11
It is because the Windows UX has become a mess of dark patterns and bad design. (gray on gray, bad titlebars, no scrollbars, no borders, no "yes/no" dialogue, notifications, bugs).
People are sick of it and every annoying change will be rejected.
Sounds like an AI could be writing the Pro AI social media posts.
I believe this is literally what was warned about by the super intelligence expert, When talking with Bernie Sanders at the Georgetown something something conference this November: that AI will be persuasive to humans, and basically it will talk the humans out of disabling the power for the AI machines.
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Yesterday it was so sluggish I had to disable every other app on Windows AND restart AND disable my network (bcus who knows wtf windows is doing in the background). It ran fine (normal) after that.
Windows is so unbearable, my Mac and Linux (former ms) laptop from 6+ years ago operate better than this pc it's driving me up a wall.
MS is literally stealing my pc specs, they don't know wtf they're doing
If Windows at home ran like Windows does on corporate PCs, people would like it better. They’re biffing that hard.
Personally, I think that Copilot for Work is a good product that does useful things. I use it daily. It isn't particularly groundbreaking, but it's nicely integrated with the wider 365 ecosystem and it has saved me a bunch of time on tedious tasks. The usual LLM caveats apply, but I just don't get why someone would be so annoyed by an entirely optional feature.
Why? Cause those are the people who know you better than you know yourself, and who know how to beat you at your own game
It is because the Windows UX has become a mess of dark patterns and bad design. (gray on gray, bad titlebars, no scrollbars, no borders, no "yes/no" dialogue, notifications, bugs).
People are sick of it and every annoying change will be rejected.
I believe this is literally what was warned about by the super intelligence expert, When talking with Bernie Sanders at the Georgetown something something conference this November: that AI will be persuasive to humans, and basically it will talk the humans out of disabling the power for the AI machines.