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Sigh. Getting real tired of windows 11 doing BS in the background that presents a security risk.
Nobody asked for this Microsoft.
Are you just gonna...sit there and complain? Or are you gonna do something?
Did something. All my personal computers are on Linux. But my work laptop? Still windows. Even finally got the upgrade to windows 11. And I hate it. So yes. I'm going to complain.
I'm on Win11. I spend a few minutes a year turning bullshit off when I notice it or hear news about it. Most of that time is spent, "Oh. Already killed it."
Confidential internal documents for corporations running win11 start getting leaked by copilot when?
Probably sooner than later. My work laptop was updated to W11 yesterday, and buy did they screw up the group policy. Every time I open a new tab in Edge I get distracted from what I try to do, since I can't disable background image, MSN news and all the other shit. Every time I lock the computer the screen stays on, no way to turn it off. And copilot is just everywhere.
That's on your sysadmin. GPOs should handle all the bullshit. And MS isn't going to deny us GPOs, fucking around in that space is the beginning of the end for corporate Windows.
I know, but since my company pushes the update like this with the help of a big supporting firm, I'd wager that it's done like this at a lot of other firms too.
I’m gonna sit back and crack a cold one* with the boys**.
*not experience that
**linux
I'm on Windows and will not experience it. I often have a hard time finding these new features that have supposedly been jammed down my throat.
"Oh. Never mind. Turned that off last year."
Not like it's some constant battle. I look every few months when I'm told I have a new "feature".
"Welp. Don't have that. On with my day."
I have to wonder how many windows devs are aware they're just making windows worse.
They are just doing their jobs, just like the masked brown shirts.
I expect they're aware, but they want to earn a living. All of these dumb AI initiatives come from execs who never question that they know best and don't give a crap how the devs feel.
I'll stick with Linux. Even with the occasional "what do you mean clib2_39 isn't installed?" nonsense it's still better overall.
I never have that kind of problem on Linux. I have random problems all the time on Windows, plus I have to fight a system that keeps trying to cajole or trick me into things I don't want. These days, any mainstream Linux distro has far less friction for the user than Windows 11.
I had that specific problem trying to run an elden ring mod (reforged) this week.
/home/myuser/Games/er_reforged/ERRv2.0.1.1-541-2-0-1-1-1762909215/ERRv2.0.1.1/internals/modengine/bin/me3: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.39' not found (required by /home/myuser/Games/er_reforged/ERRv2.0.1.1-541-2-0-1-1-1762909215/ERRv2.0.1.1/internals/modengine/bin/me3)
[RED]Error:[/]
me3 failed to launch due to error code 1: Unknown
That kind of thing happens on Windows sometimes, but there's also more people finding and posting solutions.
Of course, a regular user isn't installing mods for games. That's already kind of a niche activity.
Linux is still my choice, though.
Oh god.
Whoops, CoPilot accidentally deleted all your files! (ad for OneDrive appears)
Uh oh, CoPilot deleted half your text files! (ad for OneNote appears)
Oops, CoPilot sent all your files to Microsoft! They are definitely going to discard them and not violate your privacy wink wink
Whoops, CoPilot converted all your office docs into yet another proprietary format! (ad for MS Office 365++ AI Super Duper Ultra Max)
Only bad things will happen.
If MS didn't exchange compute for tokens with OpenAi, I would write an agent that uses the built in Ai and just burns tokens all day long.