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Microsoft is doing more for Linux adoption than anyone else ever has lol

Meanwhile I'm making every one of my computers Linux.

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Microsoft is so incredibly fucked when the AI bubble starts to burst. They've abandoned so many of their other projects and customers to go all-in on it.

Making every Windows 11 PC an AI PC

Great, so everything runs locally, making it a self-contained “AI PC”. Otherwise, the headline surely would’ve been, “Making every PC collect data to train Microsoft’s models with little benefit in return“. Right?

With 68% of consumers reporting using AI to support their decision making, voice is making this easier. [1]

Does anybody actually believe that 68% of consumers use or even want Copilot? But they included a source for this very generous assertion at the bottom of the page:

[1] Based on Microsoft-commissioned online study of U.S. consumers ages 13 years of age or older conducted by Edelman DXI and Assembly, 1,000 participants, July 2025.

Oh yeah, that's compelling: US consumers, 13 years old and older. An entire thousand of them!

So the only question I have left is which junior high principal Microsoft "compensated" for this survey, and what happened to the 320 summer school attendees who said fuck you, no anyway.

i think the whole problem is that they call it AI, which basically describes it as something that it just cant deliver

How to either make more sheeple or convince more to switch to Linux.

First, you should be able to interact with it naturally, in text or voice, and have it understand you.

Second, it should be able to see what you see and be able to offer guided support.

And third, it should be able to take action on your behalf.

Fourth and finally, it should be able to destroy your corporeal form and live on as digital-you liking your aunt's dog pictures on Instagram and writing Facebook posts about immigrants taking our jobs, with just as many creative slurs as you would use.

return of the clippy, now named skynet.

...and 99,99% of middle managers '''working''' in tech be like yeaaaaaaaa daddy just cram that shit down my throat like I'm an abused goose!

It's obvious that Windows and Microsoft remain as evil as they were in the 00s when they basically singlehandedly held back web development with ie6 for a fucking decade.

fuck off, not my shit you wont

At this point, regular use of AI should forbid you from voting. It not only means that you can't make decisions on your own, but that your choice can be affected by the people owning the AI service.

Oh thank God. I need more AI in my life to be useless

First steps of windows install:

1. No to everything for data monitoring
2. Google or Opera default browser
3. Disable or ignore all copilot icons
4. Unstick all user folders from OneDrive
5. TranslucentTB

If you're stuck with Win11, this will unfuck quite a bit of it.

https://github.com/Raphire/Win11Debloat

More unwanted bloat to disable, I guess.

The only reason I have a windows box is for gaming, specifically sims (racing and flying)

Ever more reason to test and see if the wheel and flight stick work under Proton.

I was pondering about updating that dying w10 partition, just in case. Well, looks like someone else put the final nail in that coffin for me.

And for some reason when I buy a laptop I need to also pay for that disgusting spyware. How is this scam still going on?