Microsoft should provide a method to debloat AI horsecrap.
Of course they should fix their own UI stack. It is SLOW and unresponsive.
Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders
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Re: Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders
#282Microsoft has gone full-blown evil corporation again. No customer validation on any of the AI cruft. No full OPT OUT. Office products are bastardized with copilot buttons everywhere. I've been a Windows user from day one and I now see a future without it. Satya had been a bright spot in Microsoft, but this blind lust for AI, especially in bed with Altman who is pure con artist, is unforgivable. Some of the investment…
> Satya had been a bright spot in Microsoft What? How? From a user's perspective, everything has gotten steadily worse under his reign. Solitaire is now a subscription service. I long for the halcyon days of Windows 8.
> I long for the halcyon days of Windows 8.
That's a phrase I would never have thought I'd see. I remember Windows 8 as being generally despised when it first came out.
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#283Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://bazzite.gg/ Should work out of the box, no configuration needed. The only caveat is games with kernel based anti-cheat, but I don't play many of those. Arc Raiders works just fine, for example.
I'm sorry but linux gaming absolutely does not support "support everything from 90s to cutting edge modern games without hiccups" I'm sure for some users it's acceptable, solid even, but I know several people, including myself, that keep hitting edge cases and invisible walls when on Windows these games "just work". And no, it's not about kernel anti-cheats or any other DRM.
I use crossover and/or Lutris on Linux in order to run most of my 90s Windows games as it's a complete pain in the ass to get them working under Windows 11.
Re: Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders
#284Microsoft has gone full-blown evil corporation again. No customer validation on any of the AI cruft. No full OPT OUT. Office products are bastardized with copilot buttons everywhere. I've been a Windows user from day one and I now see a future without it. Satya had been a bright spot in Microsoft, but this blind lust for AI, especially in bed with Altman who is pure con artist, is unforgivable. Some of the investment…
> OpenAI enabled its users to have a sext conversation. Considering that this is only with verified adults, how is this "evil"? I find it more evil to treat full grown adult users as kids and heavily censor their use of LLMs. (Not to detract from the rest of your post, with which I agree).
Yeah the disapproval/disgust I'm seeing everywhere, from pretty much every side that I keep my eye on, about OpenAI enabling erotica generation with ChatGPT is so frustrating, because it seems like just Puritanism and censorship, and desiring to treat adults like children as you say.
Re: Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders
#285Earlier quoted context omitted.
The other day I installed Windows 7 on a VM for fun.. it was not fun at all. I got weird wave of nostalgic sadness, like being teleported back in time, I felt/remembered how things were back in ~2010, the culture, my university life, how things were with an ex gf, ALL of it. The OS is engrained in my mind and it was gorgeous seeing those aero effects and hearing the startup sounds again. It is so simple and easy. It…
> and it won't change by itself for months That’s… not a good sell at all Promise me a decade and I’ll bite. (Joke’s on me, I’ll need to get out of this windows shithole asap)
I've been on XFCE for about a decade and it's mostly the same as it was.
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#286Earlier quoted context omitted.
I would argue that Windows 2000 was the last decent version of Windows. Fast, non-bloated, ran DirectX and games better than Windows 98 ever did, and as stable an operating system as I'd ever run.
Someone forgets how long Windows 2000 took to boot ;-)
given the current state of things, I'd take that slow boot over anything else ;)
Re: Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders
#287Does it protect sensitive info like user intellectual property, financial info etc?
To be able to tell if the data is IP, financial etc, so that they can protect it, they have to use AI. See, how that works?
Re: Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders
#288Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Satya had been a bright spot in Microsoft What? How? From a user's perspective, everything has gotten steadily worse under his reign. Solitaire is now a subscription service. I long for the halcyon days of Windows 8.
> Solitaire is now a subscription service That is a joke, right? Right??
Nope. Minesweeper, too.
Well, the games are still free, the subscription is to remove the ads.
But you have to subscribe for each game separately, and it's a per-device subscription.
Yes, Microsoft really is that petty when it comes to nickel-and-diming users these days.
Re: Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders
#289Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Satya had been a bright spot in Microsoft What? How? From a user's perspective, everything has gotten steadily worse under his reign. Solitaire is now a subscription service. I long for the halcyon days of Windows 8.
> I long for the halcyon days of Windows 8. That's a phrase I would never have thought I'd see. I remember Windows 8 as being generally despised when it first came out.
There's no bottom. It can always get worse.
Re: Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders
#290You would not be suffered if you use Windows Enterprise LTSC.