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Microsoft Wants to 'Make People Addicted' to its New AI Assistant, Internal Documents Reveal (www.404media.co)
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[–] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 12 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Yeah every time I get on my laptop it's a little more unrecognisable and unusable to me. Will be getting in Linux as soon as I get a chance.

[–] moobythegoldensock@infosec.pub 10 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

What’s stopping you so far?

[–] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 11 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Time more than anything, im only on it about 2 hours once a month

[–] TDCN@feddit.dk 3 points 16 hours ago

A good place to start, if what you do for those two hours a month is just a browser and such, is a live USB with Linux mint (or something like that) and then there is no commitment until you are ready.

[–] Meatwagon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

SSDs costing $300 for me. For some reason my current drives refuse to partition. I got an old laptop on it, but it barely works regardless of what OS is on it.

[–] HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org 1 points 4 hours ago

Older refurbished Thinkpads are a good and cheap way to go. They save a ton of compatibility headaches which only eat time. Linux is very economical on hardware resources. Or, just use an old pc. I work as a programmer and my main PC is 15 years old now.

[–] magnue@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I've strongly enjoyed cachyOS. Cue downvotes for this, but I installed ClaudeCode (any other cli would work fine too like opencode etc) and gave it a persistent memory as an OS helper of sorts when I get stuck.

Probably moronic to quit windows over AI integration and then set up Linux with the exact same vision just in a completely custom way.

[–] snugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.works 1 points 57 seconds ago

I've just started messing around with cachy after using mint for a month and a bit, honestly kinda liking it with KDE over mint now.