You’ll be able to disable it, like anything else.
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.
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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.
And Bazzite, and Fedora, and OpenSUSE.
I’ve converted my whole family to LibreOffice. fuck MS
The problem isn’t co-pilot. Co-pilot is reasonably useful if you’re careful.
The problem is that it will almost certainly cost extra.
And that’s fucking terrible.
That happened months ago, they simply used a little slight-of-hand to hide it.
The problem is absolutely copilot. Microsoft is basically force installing spyware.
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.
They are really going balls to the wall with this AI crap, huh?
fuck no. I am not installing their SaaS bullshit. I have old editions for a reason.
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!
Laughs in LibreOffice
That’s enough for me to quit my last two dual boot rigs. Guess I’ll have to figure out how to get over binging 12 fitgirl release.quickly only to realize they all sucked anyway
I’d wait for sales of your games instead. I tried one fitgirl release on EndeavourOS I had from my Windows days (which ran perfectly on there) recently. Tried with Bottles and Lutris and the latter worked eventually but the performance was subpar and it was quite a hassle to get it to run as I had to try many proton versions with a lot of restarts and black screens. Steam and Heroic games run fine though.
Meh. Any word processor or spreadsheet works for me, as long as I don’t get pestered.
Wow if only anyone saw this coming
I know right. Haven’t used Microsoft since 2013 and I’m discouraging every employee who is used to their products to not install them on work computers. A lot of people resist learning OSS but being in the management I do my bit for avoiding what I may claim to be unconsented malware on our systems.
HumanOnEarth announces they will install Linux on all computers going forward
They’ll try to make Linux illegal soon.
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.
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.
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.
Moved to Linux (popos on desktop, mint on ancient laptop). Been fine. Don’t miss windows. Play games and browse the web without issue.
