God Damn it MS
I thought the user backlash would be enough to correct MS’s course (like with Win 8) but their leadership has this pissbrained belief that people will change their mind or just accept this bullshit as inevitable. This is going to be a fucking disaster for them that they’ll never truly recover from.
Install Linux Problem Solved
On the one hand this is getting old, we know MS shit the bed and it’s gonna be MS copilot featuring Windows soon.
On the other,… man is this a spectacular way to run a company into the ground 🤣
Ok, we could put this into the category of W8 with its tile system. They try something new, it backfires, back to square one. (The menu button moves back to the lower left corner). But I dunno, despite there already being rumours an option to fully disable copilot “rolled out to administrators” soon.
I don’t think they’ll just try and sweep this one under the rug as quickly after all this disastrous doubling down.
I hope my company will switch to something different. Microsoft ist getting worse and worse
Give me LTSC or give me death!
Can I interest you in this beautiful Linux distribution?
I wonder if I’ll soon be able to just lean back and bark orders at my PC.
Yup, never gonna run Win11
I’m sorry, is this an AI Generated keyboard…?
Not saying it isn’t, but if the reason why you’re saying that is because of the z/y key, I know one of the EU layouts swaps it. German I think?
Yes, a German keyboard has swapped the letter Z and Y (and some other differences). Maybe this is a keyboard that shows both so more people can use it.
Microsoft did this with Internet Explorer and Windows 98; they make IE the shell for file explorer so as to ensure IE could never be removed.
To the top. History is repeating itself.
Those who do learn history are doomed to bear the consequences of the FUCK wads who don’t.
Everyday that passes my satisfaction has grown since jumping over to Linux Mint.
I’m thrilled for seeing my RAM idle at half the amount it did when I was on Windows. Loving Mint… or any debian distro for that matter.
In these trying times it helps more than ever to run an OS that sips rather than slurps that precious ddr5.
I nuked my win11 installation a week ago and went with cachyos (it’s arch btw) and I just feel like; even if mslop fixes their shit, I wont go back.
Woah, Arch users scares me, the way you meet someone that is much taller!
How is your time so far with the new OS? Lots of new things and issues?
Sliding in the comments: CachyOS is really easy to use, nothing mystical about it.
Yeah, its handholdy.
Ive used arch on a few servers so it feels homey even if I’ve never used a wm before. Most issues has been small and solvable.
Everyday that passes my satisfaction has grown since jumping over to Linux Mint.
Yes! Our recent Linux Mint software update drama was some nice new quality of life improvements coming to the next version of KDE Plasma.
Watching Windows 11 unfold from this side has been like sipping a cup of hot tea on the porch, wearing a good jacket, during a rain storm, while holding the storm door open for folks coming in out of the bad weather.
Mints great. I like POPos myself but its all good.
Guys, what’s the best Linux distro to install on my PC?
The community:
Yea it’s funny I’ve asked the community before whats the best Linux distro for XYZ and have had all sorts of responses. It took running mint, manjaro, ubunto, pop, tried arch, to figure out that it’s a ridiculous question. The community can only help you pick one to start with, but given there’s 3 real bases and thousands of choices off each base it’s quite frankly up to preference for the most part what Linux distro will work best for you!
Distro chooser is a thing. Or was. I’m not being able to open the site right now.
From that point forward, it is up to the user to decide how much or little they want or need.
Yep im guilty of that.
Honestly as long as theare using some kind of *nix im happy.
There’s no one size fits all for picking a distro, it’s up to the user.
I love when people try to criticize this. They cant imagine having options.
How to disable Copilot
For Pro, Enterprise, or Education users
Press Windows + R, type gpedit.msc, and press Enter. Navigate to User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Copilot. Double-click “Turn off Windows Copilot,” select “Enabled,” then click Apply and OK. Restart your computer for the changes to take effect.
For Home users
Home users without access to the Group Policy Editor can disable Copilot via the Windows Registry. Press Windows + R, type regedit, and press Enter. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows. Create a new key named WindowsCopilot if it does not exist. Inside this key, create a new DWORD (32-bit) value named TurnOffWindowsCopilot and set its value to 1. Restart your computer to apply the change.
and they say linux is complicated.
Was expecting to see “install Linux” in one of the spoilers. Nice to see actual help.
Protip: Export the registry key into a .reg file, write a script that installs it and put that in autostart. Otherwise every major update will revert your edit.
But if you’re at that point, even Slackware will give you fewer headaches.How to disable Copilot
Delete Windows.
Seriously, you think those switches will keep working?
They will for Enterprise - their only paying clients.
Home is fucked.
Pro is probably soon to be fucked.
KDE Dolphin works on Windows for those who really need Windows. Otherwise I recommend simplified Arch-based distros, but Mint is also good.
Does it? I know KDE used to make a Windows version back in the day, but I didn’t know that was still in development.
Lot of KDE apps are also on Windows, most famously Krita (art program that is on par with pqid proprietary offerings), but the KDE suite contains so many bangers like KATE (text editor faster than VSCode, with plugin support).
I knew that the “standard” KDE apps have windows versions, but Dolphin?
Edit: Looks like the newest version of Dolphin for Windows is from the development branch and was made in 2022.
Just put fedora on an old dell laptop and it recognized the dual nvidia and intel cards out of the box 🥳
I’m trying to think of a time when I thought “oh, if only I had an IA assistant in my file manager”…
I have to say it’s probably the only way you’ll ever get any kind of bulk rename out of a Microsoft OS.
Dual-booting Win 11 and Bazzite while I figure out the flow for myself and whether I can shove off into the deep end without Win 11.
If you enjoy gaming or steam-related apps, Bazzite comes kitted out with most of what you’ll need to be successful out the gate.
Aside from EAC-based games, I’ve found a lot of my games just run better without the Win 11 bloat in the background.
Exploring Windows alternatives has never been easier in my opinion.
Bazzite is great. I’m even able to do low latency wireless streaming of Beat Saber to my Quest 3 using Alvr, though I do get occasional crashes (AMD 9060xt)
Steam Link also works really well as for low latency streaming to Quest in my experience on my Quest 2.
