I don’t have any of this shit installed, could copilot already be on my windows 11?
It is truly shocking how shit Microsoft is under Nadella. It’s like 100× worse than Gates or Balmer. Wild.
What’s really wild is that people put up with this shit.
For me the straw that broke the camel’s back was finding out thatsystem32is owned by the installer user and I’d have to jump through a bunch of hoops to make any changes there.
And here people are like: “Sure, show me ads in the OS I bought.” While the apologists go: “You can disable those in the registry.”
I SHOULDN’T HAVE TO!The moment I have to wrestle the OS for control over my computer it ceases to be useful and becomes a burden.
The worst is the stranglehold windows has in the professional world. Shit I’m not even an office worker and I have to deal with ads and now AI just working in the shop and using a PC for Outlook, Excel, Word, etc.
Adobe has been getting really bad too. I shouldn’t have to close like 4 different banners, popups, involuntary AI “summary” suggestions every time I open a PDF. The literal only thing I open on adobe is electrical schematics and using acrobat to document changes, etc. I doubt it could summarize drawings exported from AutoCAD and even if it could, why would I even want that? I need to test panels, not have something tell me “this is a schematic”
Balmer and Gates worked their way up, especially Gates from basically nothing. They understood mostly what their customers wanted. But Nadella only understands short term revenue. Not the longtime customers.
Gates’s Mom was an IBM executive. He got handed a multi million dollar contract before he was out of undergrad. That’s not “from nothing”. The man was practically coronated
Microsoft was always bad. But now that they’ve saturated the market, they need shadier and shittier gimmicks to keep justifying their inflated stock price.
Now they’re trying to sell businesses on AI as a full replacement for worker headcount. It’s a bald faced lie. But with enough money spent on marketing and gimmicks like this…
I have never been more glad that I made the switch over to Linux.
So if Microshaft is going to install these products automatically with my copy of Windows, the tools are free to use, right?
I may finally pull the plug on my full conversion to Linux this or next year. I already dual-boot and have been a single inconvenience away from kicking Windows Spyware Edition to the curb, anyways.
Just get it done and don’t look back
*conversion
Thanks!
So if Microshaft is going to install these products automatically with my copy of Windows, the tools are free to use, right?
That’s sort of the joke of it all. Microsoft needs to tell their investors “We sold AI to 100 million new users!” to justify these bloated investments in OpenAI.
So instead of selling it as DLC, they just shave off a chunk of the 365 subscriptions and say “that was people paying for AI”.
HumanOnEarth announces they will install Linux on all computers going forward
They’ll try to make Linux illegal soon.
Impossible. The cloud will fall. And locking the bootloader of computers won’t work.
I didn’t say they’ll succeed. And it’ll only apply to private users, of course.
Major fear is corruption of the culture. There are corpos and cunts that would benefit from Steam stopping linux suppory which is a major adoption driver. Nvidia is supposedly a more difficult gpu/cpu to use with linux and the current duopoly leans heavily in their favour.
Not illegal, rather not free. There is an ongoing effort to switch from GPL licencing to more restrictive licensing, allowing corpos to close the source of their distribution. Redhat-IBM is at work. All this camouflaged behind good intentions like rewriting GNU user land and libs in Rust because memory safety.
The best thing to do is to convert you closest family and friends. If you’re “the computer guy” the chances are you need to support their shitty computers anyway, so you might as well support an OS which is easier to maintain.
Use Linux.
Use LibreOffice.
Use LibreWolf or WaterFox.
Free yourselves.If you’re in the US, soon this will be arrestable for enabling terrorism.
They might as well kill me if they take away my ability to tinker with computers.
The orange fuck’s vengeance tour for taking away his pedo playtime ain’t making it that far.
Yes because that went so well for teams.
Which version lol. Teams? Teams new? Teams classic? Personal teams?
Linc for Business? Skype for Business? OneDrive? SharePoint?
Literally no one on earth, from the admins to the users, likes fucking anything Microsoft does anymore.
Can we please please please tell them to fuck all the way off?
Just because it wasn’t planned doesn’t mean they can’t be obsolete.
At my job we really miss Skype, sure it was a bloated system on the end. But we could send files to customers during video conferences. They could send back their edits and so on.
With Teams I can barely send an emoji to my customers. Not to mention the bug with the “the other person might use Skype for business”. No, they are using Teams, both my customer and I have to force close Teams and restart for it to recognize us both using latest Teams version.
And don’t get me started on licensing for businesses. Fuck.
Krunklom announces he’s going to keep using Linux and to kiss his fucking asshole, gently, and delicately, after Krunklom has taken a shit, Microsoft.
I can picture the MS execs going “Shit, we still have 1,000,000 Windows users that are not feeding us their data every second, we’re not enshitifying fast enough. Step on it”.
Honestly it’s probably an upgrade for O365 but people won’t want to hear that. It’s cloud based shit being integrated with a cloud based graphics cards being able to search and assist with that functionality. If we don’t want our shit on a cloud, we shouldn’t use O365. Copilot isn’t changing much. Their software took its course, just move to libre office and if there is a big enough market, someone will fill the gap if they don’t have the features they need from libre, but I don’t know of any I need.
*This is mostly pointed at enterprise
Companies are locked to Microsoft Office whether we like it or not. Many don’t seem willing to contribute to LibreOffice to make it beat out Excel in terms of performance, or to replace PowerBI, or any of the many Add-ins that are specifically written for Excel by Governments, etc.
We also both know, the moment any country or significantly large business starts talking about replacing Microsoft products, Microsoft is going to take notice and do the absolute bare minimum to save themselves. That’s what makes all of this so difficult. At least as a consumer, I’m happy to run Linux and LibreOffice on my hardware, and I’ll promote the usage of both to anyone who asks.
I say the same thing about Cisco Meraki (not Meraki Go). Who likes paying yearly for Cisco network hardware that bricks itself and takes down your network if you forget to pay the licensing? At that point it’s not even about having the support contract to get firmware updates and support. It’s just a company dragging you by the balls for recurring revenue, after you already paid for the hardware. But companies keep buying that crap because the product makes management of the hardware easy enough to make it seem valuable. I’d much rather buy Ubiquiti UniFi gear.
I’ve converted my whole family to LibreOffice. fuck MS
fuck no. I am not installing their SaaS bullshit. I have old editions for a reason.
I will immediately uninstall it. AI is a MAJOR hindrance to what I use MS Office for.
This message is brought to you by Microsoft, for Linux Mint, and Linux Mint Debian Edition.
And Bazzite, and Fedora, and OpenSUSE.
I found Linux Mint Cinnamon edition to be an incredibly easy transition. Just make sure you disable secure boot and use the drive format that the installer recommends.
That’s the one i want to try, but i’ve got too much going on right now to rip that bandaid
Oh man, it’s delightful. Last October, I woke up and Copilot had installed on my computer. That day, I tried three distros and landed on Mint. Haven’t looked back since. It’s on all my computers now. Except my XP era Dell Dimension, which is for XP obviously. But yeah, I have almost all of my Windows games running now, except Mechwarrior 3 and Battlezone II. But I guess that’s what the old Dimension is for! The hardest thing was WoW for my wife (neither of us play, her friends forced it upon us). Steam games work pretty much out of the box. I think I had to change which version of Proton I use for 7 Days to Die, but that was it.
The Eleganse theme, with a touch of transparency in the terminal is near perfection to my semi-fancy minimalist tastes. The most ricing I’ve done to it is spending two hours finding the perfect menu icon, but you can do so much more.
Life has been so good with Linux.
Linux is inconvenient at times but so is Microsoft at all times. Atleast you can fix your problems on Linux
Can you fix mine too?
It depends on what daemons you have installed.
Look, I said goodbye when I was done using the Ouija board. That daemon can fuck off!
Even though I have a free student subscription, I uninstalled all Microsoft Office last month because the constant ‘do you want to use copilot???’ was infuriating.
Do you want to use copilot???
😭😭😭
Do you know what would dry up those tears? A Copilot, to help you navigate your digital needs. Now, click this button, grant us root, and never worry again!
I read that as John Travolta in Battlefield Earth angrily asking Barry Pepper if he wanted to eat a rat.
DO YOU WANT LUNCH?!
To be fair, I use excel (2019, not 365) frequently and I’m never prompted for anything. I had to jerry rig the installation so only excel installed and not the full suite of products, but other than that it’s been clean and perfect. Sure, I’m missing some features from 365, but one of those missing features is copilot. Everything else is perfect (and I need data sources and some other functions that aren’t in Calc which is why I still use it)
if i have xlookup and sumifs i can process most data i need. can’t do any real statistical analysis, but it’s just excel and it can prep that data for me.
Oh definitely. Xlookup and sumifs are probably my most common formulas. But I also source and combine data sources on a regular basis which is the real hitch in my use.
Yep, I managed to find a license for 2019 several years aho and have just transferred it to my computers and I’ve upgraded. No copilot or prompts to upgrade.
I’m still testdriving libreoffice to try to dump ms entirely but I like having a backup available.
LibreOffice is great, but one of the problems is its not a business product. So sure, most everyone can do basic stuff and its fine. But if you’re a business, it really won’t cut it. And if you’re a power user of any of the app types, shifting away might not be possible.
But yes, my goal is 100% shift from MS. I just can’t shake excel until there’s a better alternative (or I stop having the need).
