HumanOnEarth announces they will install Linux on all computers going forward
this post was submitted on 18 Sep 2025
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They'll try to make Linux illegal soon.
Impossible. The cloud will fall. And locking the bootloader of computers won't work.
I didn't say they'll succeed. And it'll only apply to private users, of course.
Major fear is corruption of the culture. There are corpos and cunts that would benefit from Steam stopping linux suppory which is a major adoption driver. Nvidia is supposedly a more difficult gpu/cpu to use with linux and the current duopoly leans heavily in their favour.
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Use Linux.
Use LibreOffice.
Use LibreWolf or WaterFox.
Free yourselves.
If you're in the US, soon this will be arrestable for enabling terrorism.
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This message is brought to you by Microsoft, for Linux Mint, and Linux Mint Debian Edition.
And Bazzite, and Fedora, and OpenSUSE.
I found Linux Mint Cinnamon edition to be an incredibly easy transition. Just make sure you disable secure boot and use the drive format that the installer recommends.
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Life has been so good with Linux.
Linux is inconvenient at times but so is Microsoft at all times. Atleast you can fix your problems on Linux
I can picture the MS execs going "Shit, we still have 1,000,000 Windows users that are not feeding us their data every second, we're not enshitifying fast enough. Step on it".
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Microsoft fuck you. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Even though I have a free student subscription, I uninstalled all Microsoft Office last month because the constant ‘do you want to use copilot???’ was infuriating.
Do you want to use copilot???
😭😭😭
Do you know what would dry up those tears? A Copilot, to help you navigate your digital needs. Now, click this button, grant us root, and never worry again!
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I have never been more glad that I made the switch over to Linux.
It is truly shocking how shit Microsoft is under Nadella. It's like 100× worse than Gates or Balmer. Wild.
What's really wild is that people put up with this shit.
For me the straw that broke the camel's back was finding out that system32 is owned by the installer user and I'd have to jump through a bunch of hoops to make any changes there.
And here people are like: "Sure, show me ads in the OS I bought." While the apologists go: "You can disable those in the registry."
I SHOULDN'T HAVE TO!
The moment I have to wrestle the OS for control over my computer it ceases to be useful and becomes a burden.
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Its worth understanding that microsoft, like most companies, is rapidly rebranding most of their existing stuff as "AI". A couple weeks (months?) back at work we managed to convince the boss that maybe it wasn't a good idea to put all of our sensitive internal data into Teams and convinced him to turn off copilot. Literally minutes later he lost his shit because auto-transcripts no longer worked and IT turned it back on.
But that is what we are seeing with a LOT of companies. ANYTHING that can be sold as "AI" is getting re-branded as it. So it makes perfect sense that MS will rebrand it as "installing copilot AI" rather than "not removing clippy".
That said: MS have also been ahead of the curve on adding even more bullshit and spyware to everything they do so... have you heard the good word about Linux? Libre Office gets personal users most of the way there (and if they worked on their documentation, all the way there. I STILL don't fucking know how to get row/column headings to work in Calc...). And for business/power use, the browser/cloud based solutions are probably what you want anyway since none of that data should live on your laptop/desktop and should instead live in the company approved data store.
Hear me out. I work in fintech. Medium size company. Super duper strict compliance and security. Although not as strict as what I've seen and heard of from big data and military contractors. Still. Experian for example mandated us that as a third party API data processor everyone that even goes near their raw credit score data be in an audited room that has a camera pointing at them at all times and a camera be pointed at their computer screens at all times as well. That's right, not on-device recording, but CCTV. The alternatíve was that we don't see their data at all. So we opted to encrypt all data from them at all times instead. At rest, in transit, doesn't matter. No visibility of it to us at all, except for the final numeric score you see on your credit reports and nothing else. And this is just one vendor we adhere to. There's tons of PII running through us. You get the ghist.
Come AI, suddenly our slack has an AI channel, we have a director of AI(?), and then a whole department. And of course the AI-assisted tools proliferate and QA and engineering are both mandated to perform more after laying off 30% of our devs. And every product manager's demo is talking about AI.
Meanwhile security said that no more Ubuntu and Fedora imaged laptops are allowed on our VPN. Windows 11 and the occasional Mac only.
Highly confidential business meetings are held with gong or other AI assist tools recording and summarizing everything. Code is being written with agentic AI. Internal-only docs are smoothed over with gpt. And all this with the notion that we should trust them that they don't extract data from these enterprise subscription products.
My only hope is that there's still some semblance of sanity left in this company because they have recently fired someone that proclaimed themselves being MAGA.
we should trust them that they don't extract data from these enterprise subscription products.
LMAO of course they use that data for their AI training, now and forever (or maybe until the collapse of Usa as we know it), and they won't even ask anymore.
I guess there is at least one person who should be fired urgently: the one who said that they don't do that.
I STILL don't fucking know how to get row/column headings to work in Calc...
Have you tried with asking Copi...OUCH!!!! /s
Funny enough, I actually have tried with chatgpt. The problem is the same one with all these LLM based tools: Training data.
And if you actually google this yourself, the vast majority of what you find are people not understanding what is being asked or referencing a REALLY REALLY old UI (possibly dating to the open or even star days). And the LLMs are effectively scraping that so you get the equivalent of "This was already answered HERE. Closing duplicate question" response.
(I usually DO end up figuring it out after a bit of deep diving when I really care but I go through so much FUD in the process that I inevitably forget a month or two later).
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I STILL don’t fucking know how to get row/column headings to work in Calc
I'm assuming you are referring to column filters and/or keeping the first row at the top of the screen:
- Filter: Select Header Row > Data > Auto Filter
- Row Freeze: View > Freeze Cells > Freeze First Row
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I dare them to do it on my Pop OS! computers! I don't even run a windows VM anymore.
It feels liberating! No more Stockholm syndrome ✌️
Yes because that went so well for teams.
Krunklom announces he's going to keep using Linux and to kiss his fucking asshole, gently, and delicately, after Krunklom has taken a shit, Microsoft.
Yeah, I've dumped all mikroshite from my devices for FOSS software. Only my work laptop has it and I never do anything personal with that. Libre Office, Thunderbird, Notesnook. Also considering Obsidian and Joplin.
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fuck no. I am not installing their SaaS bullshit. I have old editions for a reason.
So if Microshaft is going to install these products automatically with my copy of Windows, the tools are free to use, right?
I may finally pull the plug on my full conversion to Linux this or next year. I already dual-boot and have been a single inconvenience away from kicking Windows Spyware Edition to the curb, anyways.
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I was dual booting for a bit on two computers but didn't get too far away from Windows.
Finally reinstalled only Ubuntu on my laptop. I use my laptop until I need something on Windows then figure out how to do it on Ubuntu.
Got Syncthing running on both computers early this week to replace Box. Still need to see if I can run it on my NAS. Then need to get Back blaze sorted out.
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Laughs in LibreOffice
They are also inserting AI shit into Notepad too.
Like, good luck getting me off from LibreOffice and Notepad++ assholes.
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I've converted my whole family to LibreOffice. fuck MS
Isn't it already bundle with Windows 11? Article doesn't say what's the difference.
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Moved to Linux (popos on desktop, mint on ancient laptop). Been fine. Don't miss windows. Play games and browse the web without issue.
I will immediately uninstall it. AI is a MAJOR hindrance to what I use MS Office for.
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