"We did it, Patrick! We made a technological breakthrough!"
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Listen to the man. He doesn't give a shit about regular Windows users. You're getting it because his entrenched corporate licensors will get it. And they get it because they get a button to turn it off. That and they don't have many options because of the sweet fucking deals they're getting when they bundle the MS software ecosystem, locking out competitors. Embrace. Extend.
Agentic, I fucking hate this word.
It’s only meaning is to management, and is some kind of horseshit way of saying “less employees to pay”
Words for it already exist. Its whole purpose is marketing and AI fart huffing.
Agentic, I fucking hate this word.
It joins 'the ask' and 'the spend' and 'action this' as words people use to sound trendy and smart. It's the surest sign someone went from Used Cars to I.T sales in their career, and should be heard with similar mistrust.
If your peers use these - heck, if they use 'emails', pluralizing the mass noun - just laugh at them like you got their absurdist attempt to lampoon one of these people so they can learn how ridiculous they sound. Help your friends.
I love how these fuckers talk about the ability to "work anywhere" as if it were some kind of freedom. To me, freedom is shutting my work computer down at 4pm, leaving it on my desk at work, and going home - whether it is for the night, the weekend, or my vacation. I work at work and nowhere else; the only thing freer than that is not working at all.
This is what being in a union has allowed me to do. It's wonderful.
I get it, but hear me out: My company offers to take "workation". For one week this year I worked from another country. I worked for around six hours a day (shorter than usual, because I used some overtime) and enjoyed my freetime in a warm and nice city. I went to museums and good restaurants after work. I did not use one day of my (more than average) holidays for that, but took another week off for only holiday directly after the workation. It was great only possible because I had the possibilty to work from anywhere outside the office.
But here comes the thing. I didn't need AI and didn't need Windows for that. It's possible for years already. Microsoft is - as everybody knows of course - trying to sell shit to people that they don't need and don't want.
it’s like Nigerian prince scam email – they don’t want you as a customer if you’re smart enough to recognize you’re the resource being extracted.
Almost all actual users hate this. Unfortunately, it is corporate customers that buy the majority of Windows licenses, and those C-levels gobble up that shit like there was no tomorrow…
It’s beyond “nobody asked for this.” People are actively saying “this is bad, I want not this.”
Blue checkmarks fund Nazis. It’s these fuckheads pushing Ai slop onto us.
Switching to Linux was so much less effort than I expected, and so much easier than trying to unfuck a new Windows install (which essentially requires pirating an enterprise version to have a chance), and then still have all of your data stolen despite best efforts. So, yeah, thanks Windows 11.
If you live in the GUI you really won’t notice much friction. If you work in power shell or command prompt regularly it’s going to be a lot of muscle memory to break but from the GUI? Anything outside of GNOME will feel like home for you.
Right, but if you're someone who is comfortable with powershell, then you're not going to be intimidated by the CLI like many Windows people are.
Agreed, more differences there, but that's always been an area I thought was so much better to work with on Linux every time I installed. I'm definitely not someone who's lived in the command prompt though!
Some other tech website did an article recently about how to unfuck windows as much as possible. Like four pages of tricks, registry edits, third party tools.
People in the comments were like "you know, Linux is free and is getting very user friendly."
People were mad. People really want to stick to windows.
No idea why. I'm running basic pop!_os and have no real complaints.
I was given a macbook at programming work and honestly, the battery life sold me on it.
And with that Steam Cube thing, I can't imagine anything Microsoft in my house.
Steam Cube thing
I saw someone call it the Valve GabeCube and I can't unsee it now, lol
Dbrand got it right with the companion cube skin. Valve totally missed that opportunity.
i for one am very excited about this new "AI" pc idea. it will really help to streamline my job, where i spend 8 hours a day talking to Cortana™ and browsing LinkedIn™
If you're stuck on windows, you should know, the new version of O&O ShutUp will help you delete copilot off your system.
Cheers.
IMO it's been Adobe really running the Mac vs Windows duopoly for over a decade at this point. If they made their software compatible with Linux people would have virtually no reason to continue using Windows.
Honestly until recently affinity was a huge threat to Adobe. We almost had a way out.
Did something happen with Affinity that knocked it out of the running?
Got bought by Canva last year and this year they switched to a freemium model. People fear that cramming AI more prominently, ads and predatory subscription models will follow.