God Damn it MS
Leaked Windows 11 Feature Shows Copilot Moving Into File Explorer
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-leaked-windows-11-feature-copilot-file-explorer/
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-leaked-windows-11-feature-copilot-file-explorer/
God Damn it MS
72 Comments
Nickelalloy@lemmy.world · 88 pts · 220d
Everyday that passes my satisfaction has grown since jumping over to Linux Mint.
wioum@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 220d
I nuked my win11 installation a week ago and went with cachyos ^(^^i^^t^^'^^s^ ^a^^r^^c^^h^ ^b^^t^^w^^)^ and I just feel like; even if mslop fixes their shit, I wont go back.
Nickelalloy@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 220d
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?
SrMono@feddit.org · 13 pts · 220d
Sliding in the comments: CachyOS is really easy to use, nothing mystical about it.
wioum@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 220d
Yeah, its handholdy.
wioum@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 220d
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.
Xyphius@lemmy.ca · 15 pts · 220d
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.
aesthelete@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 219d
In these trying times it helps more than ever to run an OS that sips rather than slurps that precious ddr5.
mesamunefire@piefed.social · 10 pts · 220d
Mints great. I like POPos myself but its all good.
cRazi_man@europe.pub · 21 pts · 220d
Guys, what's the best Linux distro to install on my PC?
The community:
mesamunefire@piefed.social · 7 pts · 220d
Yep im guilty of that.
Honestly as long as theare using some kind of *nix im happy.
Cybersteel@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 220d
There's no one size fits all for picking a distro, it's up to the user.
a_person@piefed.social · 1 pts · 218d
Except arch, arch is perfect
/s
Mac@mander.xyz · 4 pts · 220d
I love when people try to criticize this. They cant imagine having options.
innermachine@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 218d
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!
qyron@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 218d
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.
pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 220d
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.
FE80@lemmy.world · 54 pts · 220d
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.
Boiglenoight@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 220d
To the top. History is repeating itself.
Rooster326@programming.dev · 14 pts · 220d
Those who do learn history are doomed to bear the consequences of the FUCK wads who don't.
hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works · 52 pts · 220d
How to disable Copilot
::: spoiler 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. :::
::: spoiler 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. :::
Nelots@piefed.zip · 36 pts · 220d
Was expecting to see "install Linux" in one of the spoilers. Nice to see actual help.
umbrella@lemmy.ml · 20 pts · 220d
mech@feddit.org · 18 pts · 220d
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.
wewbull@feddit.uk · 14 pts · 220d
Delete Windows.
Seriously, you think those switches will keep working?
Rooster326@programming.dev · 10 pts · 220d
They will for Enterprise - their only paying clients.
Home is fucked.
Pro is probably soon to be fucked.
olenkoVD@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 218d
There is no way they have an option named TurnOffWindowsCopilot that turns off the Windows Copilot
gustofwind@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 220d
Just put fedora on an old dell laptop and it recognized the dual nvidia and intel cards out of the box 🥳
ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 219d
I’m sorry, is this an AI Generated keyboard..?
SweatyFireBalls@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 219d
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?
ChromaticMan@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 219d
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.
deadtom@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 220d
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.
civ@lemmy.civl.cc · 6 pts · 220d
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)
Unfold1127@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 220d
Steam Link also works really well as for low latency streaming to Quest in my experience on my Quest 2.
PierceTheBubble@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 220d
Of course, make an anti-feature part of an integral part, which coincidentally also happens to handle personal files...
pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 220d
Yes. One could imagine the privacy invasion will be completely "coincidental", and fairly complete, for many users.
lechekaflan@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 218d
Install Linux Problem Solved
stylusmobilus@aussie.zone · 7 pts · 220d
Had a yarn to the household today, it’s Linux time.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 219d
KDE Dolphin works on Windows for those who really need Windows. Otherwise I recommend simplified Arch-based distros, but Mint is also good.
FireWire400@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 219d
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.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 219d
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).
FireWire400@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 218d
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.
FreddiesLantern@leminal.space · 6 pts · 218d
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.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 219d
I'm trying to think of a time when I thought "oh, if only I had an IA assistant in my file manager"...
aesthelete@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 219d
I have to say it's probably the only way you'll ever get any kind of bulk rename out of a Microsoft OS.
CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 217d
Well you see, if you thought windows search was bad at finding files in the folder you already had opened when you starting searching for them before...
kadaverin0@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 218d
Treczoks@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 220d
Wasn't it bad enough, already? Did they already exhaust all other ways to make it worse?
DoktorNo@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 218d
I hope my company will switch to something different. Microsoft ist getting worse and worse
morto@piefed.social · 4 pts · 220d
soon there be some news about copilot deleting user files
cardfire@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 218d
Give me LTSC or give me death!
nibbler@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 218d
Can I interest you in this beautiful Linux distribution?
cardfire@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 214d
Bazzite, all night. I'll fortune to transition towards Linux but I still need the sad, commercial and technical predictability of Windows for some time longer.
melfie@lemy.lol · 2 pts · 218d
nucleative@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 218d
I wonder if I'll soon be able to just lean back and bark orders at my PC.
dm_me_your_feet@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 218d
Jokes on them i replaced explorer with Directory Opus years ago... The only piece of software i miss on linux its perfect
Blackmist@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 218d
I used to have that on the Amiga.
LoafedBurrito@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 218d
Sucks to still be a windows user and not want to learn how to use Linux.
sturmblast@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 218d
Yup, never gonna run Win11
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 218d
Yeah, I know. Install Linux.
I'll do that when every single gaming title works flawlessly on it and not a second before.
Until then, I'll utilize whatever workaround the community comes up with to strip this shit out of File Explorer.
P.S. Many games still don't work on Linux. https://areweanticheatyet.com/
scala@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 218d
Honestly all my games have ran on bazzite better than windows with better FPS. And much less RAM consumption. Even some of those EAC games run well.
The more people that leave MS the more support Linux games will get.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 217d
https://areweanticheatyet.com/
scala@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 217d
Great source for sure. Had this bookmarked
Quadhammer@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 218d
It's free bro just install it quit being a puss
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 217d
Sorry, I like playing my games which span a 30 year timeframe. And if even one didn't work on Linux, then it isn't worth it to me.
BitsAndBites@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 218d
Ok, have fun on windows while the rest of us move to Linux and enjoy gaming there.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 217d
Ok.
https://areweanticheatyet.com/
Kortalh@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 218d
Between Lutris and Steam, I've been able to run every game flawlessly -- several with better performance than I've seen on Windows, even.
The only limitation is anti-cheat software that some games (Team Fortress, Battlefield, etc.) require. I don't play those types of games myself, so it's not an issue for me.
FreddiesLantern@leminal.space · 1 pts · 217d
Oh you holding out for those few microtransaction storefronts that are SO much fun?
Fridgeratr@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 218d
I've never had a single issue with any game on Linux. Just do it
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 217d
https://areweanticheatyet.com/
yggstyle@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 220d
Let's face it. Windows search couldn't find shit before - what's a few more hallucinations?
If I need to run some bespoke piece of software that doesn't run on wine or a VM of older windows - I'll find an alternative. I'll leave Microsoft to its oily rags and matches.
ThomasWilliams@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 220d
What, you mean it wasn't there already ? It's the only place where it would be actually useful.
pivot_root@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 220d
You would hope, but knowing how competent copilot is, it's just going to turn out like this:
Rooster326@programming.dev · 3 pts · 220d
I'm sorry..
Helpful???