These threads feel kinda redundant, all comments are just preaching to the choir.
Can anyone comment about anything besides “[…] switched to Linux […]”?
What else do you expect everyone to do? Please enlighten us if you have something more to offer than switching to Linux — which seemingly is the best option currently.
I’m not saying that you shouldn’t, I am saying that there’s more to discuss than “switched to Linux /thread”.
For example let me just quote microsoft “The vision that we have is: let’s rewrite the entire operating system around AI, and build essentially what becomes truly the AI PC.” and think about what that means for your workplace. Windows isn’t going to vanish in a few years. The companies that have a lot of windows PCs will have to deal with increased hardware requirements in an already expensive market, have to wrangle user settings that the ai set on voice commands or fight against Microsoft to shut it all down.
I feel like there’s going to be a lot of wasted productivity in the coming years spend on fixing what ai broke.
Business owners can form association and apply pressure. E.g. https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-windows-10-security-updates-european-economic-area-customers/
If you’re an employee, why give a damn…
The free extended updates are only for private consumers, companies don’t get them.
The consumer ESU program can’t be used by commercial devices.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/extended-security-updates
Most companies should’ve already switched over so afaict there wasn’t enough push back.
I don’t see how employees giving a damn is relevant to what I said, can you rephrase that?
I wasn’t pointing out that there are extended updates, I was pointing out that customer associations can apply pressure. That’s the only way Microsoft can be limited from taking more and more profit share with increasingly enshittified products.
People are much more likely to use windows as employees, rather than business owners. So I don’t think an average Lemmy user (lemmings?) will be interested in commenting anything seriously about it.
I think it’s time for a class action lawsuit. But yes, you make a good point. Our state agency just got new PCs due to the ending of windows 10 support, and it sucks because I have no way to turn off the AI bullshit because I’m not an admin. As much as I enjoy now having a machine with bluetooth so I can use earbuds, I’d go back to my old work PC in a heartbeat.
Just saying, you might have a sympathetic IT department. Stuff like that I’m more than happy to come and disable.
Hell, there are one or two of my users I make administrators of their machines, along with the advice to not do anything I wouldn’t do.
I’m not that guy but there’s ESU or windows 10 IoT.
windows 10 LTSC from massgrave.dev site for afew years, but that will come to an end too. after that if you hate yourself there are the BSDs, or you can install hackintosh too. but the linuxes are the most mature alternative that won’t just fuck you over
Sure, I switched to Mac.
Don’t they also push their new AI on customers? I don’t use MacOS so I’m a bit ootl on that.
There are a few ai based tools offered, but nothing shoved in your face.
Stay on 10 and force M$ to give further updates because of sheer popularity, just like they had to with XP
Companies have already updated, new notebooks come with windows 11, it’s sadly inevitable that most users will sooner or later be switched to windows 11.
There are several common refrains on Lemmy that many people find cathartic. If you don’t care to tell us about your preferred Linux distro again, maybe another thread will pop up soon about how streaming services are enshittified and you can tell us about what you’re self-hosting again.
I use arch btw
I get wanting to tell people that you’ve switched from windows but these threads just feel too repetitive to be engaging, there’s no interesting discussion when everyone is just repeating the same points every month.
There’s also no discussion about the article or if there is then I couldn’t find it because of all the switched to Linux comments.
Oh well, back to other threads…
Just downvote. Downvotes don’t mean you dislike them or think they’re wrong, it just means you think the comment should have less visibility.
Some real 5D chess plays from the big MS these days lmfao. I’ll stick with Linux, thanks.
Guess I’ll be keeping mine offline forever then.
Long time windows user, games retained me but I found Proton so bye bye forever windows. Now convincing my wife to switch it’s the real challenge haha
Just do it while she’s at work!
Wow Windows 11 new UI update looks wild… I like it.
“Honey, why is the wallpaper of ‘Hannah Montana’?”
I swapped my mother’s computer to Linux (Mint). She had no issues using it, because I put the desktop icons in the same place, and copied the browser profile.
Run Linux on my main PC.
Time to switch my old laptop over too, or maybe I could configure a new linux PC as my “laptop” if I could get a good touch screen interface (for relaxing on the couch)?
I think Ubuntu Touch gets decent reviews
I moved to pop!_os on the 14th and I am not looking back
This entire article is trusting the word of Microsoft’s director of marketing
Me, using my MacBook:
(Don’t roast me for not using Linux, I’m all in and happy in the Apple ecosystem!)
Heheheh… I too have apple hardware… running unsupported installs (am currently on Mojave as I require 32-bit support for old peripherals and software), so when Apple tells me to upgrade, it lasts until the System Update checks the hardware then promptly fucks off never to bother me again.
I think am going to ignore Microsoft just like I do Apple and leave the gaming PC with Win10 Pro until I get a second drive for it to run Bazzite on.
I mean as long as you’re not being too stupid with your PC, and not like doing your taxes on the computer the risk is pretty low.
I ain’t roastin’, but I am confused as all hell if you planned on gamin’.
I do not. I don’t game on my laptop.
Fair enough then, glad you found something that works for ya. (I’d put Asahi Linux on it if it was my PC tho XD)
I am 99% Tumbleweed except my gaming PC which is still on Win11 (but I haven’t seen any bloat on it, no ads in winkey menu etc).
I am a huge flight simmer and, besides Xplane, MSFS has Microsoft in its name but the problem is more about the tons of tools around the simulator rather than the sim (aircraft, peripherals, maps&nav, ATC, job manager etc). MSFS do run on proton, but plenty of background tools don’t 😔
I haven’t seen any bloat on it, no ads in winkey menu
If you’re in the EU, that’s probably why. I think the bloat is only for non-EU users.
I am so yes it’s probably why.
The iso from massgrave was made with Rufus that can disable the unnecessary requirements and force creation of a local account instead of windows live 🖕
Then activated and lightly debloated with powershell. That makes windows usable for what I need it to, just launching games.
Everything else is done on a minisforum Linux or framework Linux (even sometimes gaming on it when I’m not at home).
Yep, I’ve seen MS flight simulator fans basically create entire cockpits in their house with a crap tonne of screens for 180-degree vision and hook up all the 3rd party peripherals.
There’s just no way this will ever work seamlessly on Linux
Yeah, but Xplane 12 does work natively and perfectly on Linux and MacOS. So there’s that.
But I guess if you start adding several joysticks (minimum of 3 for an aircraft, joystick or yoke, rudder, throttle quadrant) with assorted softwares it becomes a bit of a headache and most probably it won’t be 3 joysticks from the same vendor.
And today we have the Chinese winwings that makes full glareshield and mcdu at acceptable prices https://eu.winwingsim.com/view/goods-details.html?id=925 so that’s another software to configure.
And all of that is only for one aircraft type (Airbus in my example) 😅
They are shoving AI down our throats.
Shock! No, but seriously. This is not a surprise.
Microsoft is going to implode with the AI bubble
My experience with W11 on the work laptop.
Taskbar sucks, maybe because I’m colorblind but I can te what my selected program is and programs with notifications (Teams) look like the focused program. Apparently notification boxes there are pink now. Can’t find any accessibility setting but fuck the colorblind I guess. It feels wrong to click the highlighted icon I for years have learned will mean that I minimize it…
And why all the dots? And why is the notification dot the largest, so I can even tell which window is actually focused?
Outlook doesn’t open with focus, especially the window that is supposed to pop up and warn me of upcoming meetings. Really annoying.
Teams notifications just don’t show if you are in a meeting and that is focused, they used to do that on W10.
Might be a Firefox bug, but there’s a lot of new visual bugs. Github diff view is randomly strongly colored, and randomly changes to the old weaker background colors when scrolling/resizing the windows. And a surprising amount of scrollbars in grids that weren’t there before.
I just wish W11 at least worked with the regular features of W10.
Can’t find any accessibility setting but fuck the colorblind I guess.
On Windows 11 there are accessibility settings for colorblind people. Settings -> Accessibility -> Color Filters. There, you can enable the feature and choose the right filter for you. Going by your description, I’m not sure it’ll help, but feel free to try it. Colorblind accessibility options have been progressing quite nicely the past few years, so at least there’s something to be happy about.
It’s not helping unfortunately, it’s just a blanket change in colors by some filter. The taskbar highlight is bad to begin with. Ideally the should use red/orange for warning highlights and used bright white. But a weak pink isn’t going to be more visible even if it was turned redish. It’ll still be weak.
And it does change every other thing on screen, which won’t be good for me since colors aren’t an issue normally, and even worse if it affect screen sharing. Taskbar changes is just straight up bad UX that tries to look good.
Over in the Linux world we have a cute penguin who leaves you alone.
Called it
