wow… OS Subcription-Based with AI?
you’ll own nothing, and you’ll be happy
I’m glad I already moved to Linux for 2 years
is this a joke?
Finally, an OS for me! My biggest complaint since the days of Windows 95 has been the lack of being able to add new features. I didn’t really care what they are, but I just like the process of subscribing to additional features until I can max them all out.
And secondly, my next biggest gripe has been how hard it is to find AI. It’s never at my fingertips. Now that it’ll be integrated into the OS itself, I can finally use AI for everything! And if I can buy new hardware annually to allow me to resubscribe to all the latest features, while telling AI my shipping habits, I think it’ll be perfect!
I can’t wait to give Bill Gates money for this! I know he’ll spend it on a good cause. Maybe two young Russian good causes! He’s such a cool guy and not at all a billionaire creepo, thank goodness!
Subscription-based. AI-focused.
Lol. No thanks.
I use 10 for my gaming/media PC.
I’ll use 11 if I have to when using some public computer or something.
But I absolutely, categorically, refuse to even touch a ‘subscription-based, AI-focused’ OS, ever, for any reason.
You’ll be hounded relentlessly to upgrade until you give up and pay the monthly usage fee
Or switch to Linux
Absofuckinglutely not.
And I say this as a dedicated Windows user who spent a year on Ubuntu Linux a decade ago and hated it. Windows does this, and sign me up for penguin lessons.
Linux is really easy now. Ofc if you want to find problems you will.
My big issue was that every time I wanted to use software that wasn’t native to Linux it could take up to two weeks of forum hunting, Google searches, and just plain hair tearing to find out how to do something.
Getting Eve Online to run wound up requiring a font install and deleting the in-game music folder. Not the things you expect an average or even better than average user to know or expect to do.
And that is just one of the instances that stick in my memory
Can’t speak to your specific issues but I also tried Ubuntu about 10 years ago, and went back to Windows. Last year I gave Mint a try. Works great, gave my old PC a new lease of life, and there are such quality FOSS packages that you never need to touch any MS bloatware again. Things are not what they were 10 years ago
And that mon ami, is why I’m even considering going back to Linux. I will admit one reason I’m hesitant is that I’m a senior citizen now (fuck it feels weird to actually say that out loud), and I’m concerned about how well I can learn a new operating system. Mind you, they say mental challenges help keep the brain young :D
Dual boot with something linux - i can suggest and recommend mint. Thats what i did, and although i still need to boot into windows for work purposes, there is no software that i need privately that requires windows. So my old laptop and media pc run Mint exclusively, and my main pc is dual boot, using Mint for everything but work. I envy your opportunity as a retired sort, to raise two fingers at microslop and any software provider that wont develop cross platform solutions.
I’ll look into Mint. I need something that will work well with games (I’ve been a gamer my whole life) and OBS for my streams.
And not retired yet. Just old.
Apologies for misinterpreting. If you’re games focussed then by all means try mint, but Bazzite might be a simpler implementation.
This might be useful as a intro reference point for your investigations: https://www.xda-developers.com/bazzite-has-me-reconsidering-windows/
I’m sure you could dual boot that as easily as mint.
what echo chamber of positive feedback are þey in?
Oh MicroSlop doesn’t want to exist anymore? 🤷🏻♀️
They’ve got plenty of revenue from Azure, Office 365, and other sources. I think what they fail to realize is that all of that is due to the dominance of Windows as a platform. As someone who has to use Azure, I don’t think I would, if my company wasn’t in the Windows ecosystem. Lots of companies that are locked into Windows still use AWS or Google Cloud instead, because Azure is pretty awful. I can’t speak to how it compares to other platforms, but it feels fucking expensive too.
Same for Office, there is no shortage of free/better options for productivity that are merely lacking the close integration Office enjoys with Windows. Once you stop using windows, that benefit very quickly becomes a $140 dollar per user, per year, dead weight.
What are the ways in which MS Office is closely integrated with Windows compared to its Mac port? I often hear user complaints that alternatives to Office on Windows have less intuitive UI and not good enough internationalization support (spell and grammar checking, hyphenation), but they never told me about integration differences.
Works with teams for collaboration, connects to One Drive, which integrates into File explorer and SharePoint. If it actually worked well, it would be a pretty slick ecosystem.
So it’s like Google Drive/Docs, but feels like normal files, without a heavy web app tab overhead for every document, thus working faster on cheap office computers?
I guess so, as long as you leave out the whole “working faster on cheap office computers” bit. Windows 11 alone is gonna hork down 4gb of ram, 2 cores, and all of an HDD’s IO without even running any applications.
Excellent. Finally the cycle of alternating good and bad versions of Windows will be broken. It’ll just be bad versions from here on out.
I’d argue Vista was way better than people gave it credit for.
Vista was better than people give it credit for simply because we now have 8 and 11 to compare it to. Vista sucked but it wasn’t intentionally hostile towards the user like new versions of Windows are
