"We did it, Patrick! We made a technological breakthrough!"
A place for all those who loathe AI to discuss things, post articles, and ridicule the AI hype. Proud supporter of working people. And proud booer of SXSW 2024.
AI, in this case, refers to LLMs, GPT technology, and anything listed as "AI" meant to increase market valuations.
Ragebait article. Especially using words like "Epically", "Screwed up", "Rage", and "Crammed Everywhere"
Most users don't care. They didn't even notice the buttons.
And even then, Microsoft understands the backlash from its most vocal users, and reverses their decision. Which is exactly what any good company would do.
Should have just titled the article: "Microsoft reverses decision to incorporate Copilot in their apps after backlash from users."
But that isn't rage inducing enough.
I think you're being too kind. A good company should understand their user base and technology better so as to not make something no one wants. The reason they consistently fail at this, is because it's primarily shareholders and investors who are the intended target. Same with the recent DLSS5 slop from NVIDIA. The actual users don't like it. "A good company just needs to reverse their decision" would apply here too, I suppose? Need to keep appearances up. Bubbles all the way
The microslop conundrum:
If some windows users are looking for a user-friendly gaming Linux, i'd heavily recommend Bazzite. Great entry point, great ease of use, great support, and a superb app store (Bazaar).
If some of you are tech-savvy, I'd recommend CachyOS. Most popular arch-based distro out there, so great community support, with great video game-oriented optimisations.
“What came through was the voice of people who care deeply about Windows and want it to be better.”
Oh honey, we care deeply about Microsoft going away entirely at this point.
I only care about Windows in the sense that it runs software I use.
My condolences, I wish you a speedy wine solution or opensource equivalent.
I have expensive software that only works on Windows, so the only thing that I care about is that it won’t get locked down to the point where I can no longer remove all the cruft.
That is the correct outlook when it comes to the general public. PC operating systems are a dwindling percentage of OS market share. For most users all they care about is that it works.
Too little too late
just passed my 2 year anneversary of linux
Glad I learned Linux 2 years ago.
There isn't any AI or other M$ crap in my Windows, always the first things I kicked out. Now it goes blazing fast and stable with less than 700MB RAM (Windows 11), unneeded telemetries blocked with Portmaster.
How do you disable ALL AI in Windows 11? and even so, Windows running "blazing fast and stable" with less than 700 Mb? Sorry bud, I will need some evidence
You seem to be under the impression that "16.0 GB (15.3 GB usable)" means that Windows is what is taking up the missing 0.7 GB. This is not the case.
Most of that is probably reserved as VRAM for your integrated graphics. None of it is in use by Windows itself.
Windows memory footprint is larger than that, without question.
VRam is only integrated with 500 MB in my laptop.
Which aligns with what I said. 500MB is most of 700MB. The difference is made up of other various hardware reservations.
My completely standard Windows 11 install says 64GB installed and 63.9 GB usable. I can assure you that doesn't mean Windows is only using 100MB.
Go to task manager and look for "Hardware Reserved" at the bottom right of the memory tab. I bet you'll see a number very close to 700MB. Mine says 87MB.
You misunderstood what that value means. It's rather difficult to remove all copilot components, but the easiest one I know (it won't remove all of it because it's integrated in many MS apps) is https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10
Install linux (sorry, mandatory lemmy comment)
I don't have nor use any MS apps, so it's easy to have the OS AI free.
Windows X Lite?
Something like this, but DIY with Windows 11
Microslop
Get the name right.
I worked at Microsoft a long time ago.
The OS team used to be powerful. They used to actually give a shit about the OS being useful for the person sitting in front of it.
Now they're being led around by the nose by the ai and cloud teams.
You can't just rebuild that.
This source posts recycled content constantly, of no real value and is posted here all the time. I really wish people would stop posting it, plenty of better sources for hopium like https://pivot-to-ai.com/
Pivot also takes time to call out bullshit research papers that tell ai haters what they want to hear.
Installed Mint last night
Nice, though cinnamon has its problems with gaming, especially dual monitor mouse capture and full screen stuff and such
If you have problems with this and dont mind wiping your /home (fedora installer [at least a month ago] absolutely hated every other partition type and arrangement except its own) I'd recommend fedora KDE or gnome, whatever suits you best
Even mutable fedora has great update processes with its windows like update envoirment
But again, if youre that fond of btrfs, use opensuse (but don't fill your drive before updating, at least with nvidia drivers it won't check if there's enough space to install and it will break your DE
Opensuse :)) great OS
Congrats! When I first installed Mint it was like being reminded of how computers are supposed to work.
Yeah that's how it feels lol I even spitefully replaced Ableton Live with a recording program that is Linux compatible 😆 I will spend money in the name of spite
Their Sloppy sloppity slop can slop off and Slopya Nadella can fornicate with himself
I doubt the realization substantively changes their course of action.
For real. This is PR to stop hemorrhaging users so they can inject more AI crap.
No, it's whinny fanboys who are complaining. The general public is fine with Windows 11.
Microsoft realizes things?
Wait, what?
Since when?
Since enterprise clients started cancelling
M365 Copilot told them about it.
Shows how bad they fucked up.