Too late, trust is already gone and im old enough to know all of this is CEOs bullshit and pure marketing.
Thats bad actually, the free advertising to linux was a good thing. Now Windows users will slip back into apathy.
Windows will continue to degrade as Microsoft fires more of its professional staff and turns to “Vibes Coding” for increasingly delicate systems development. They’ll keep pushing out the OS as a vector for unwanted third-party advertisements. They’ll keep ratcheting user control of the OS away from the hardware owners. And they’ll keep injecting bloatware into their applications and services.
This isn’t the end of enshitification. It is a brief retreat and regrouping by a company that has invested tens of billions of dollars into the AI sunk cost.
I read “a major shit”
Oh, and only now am I re-reading it to see that’s not what it actually said…
common freudian slip when talking about windows
It mostly looks like a mild slow down of user-facing release and rebrand of unpopular features.
It is not a retreat. The marketing team is just trying to figure out how to reframe things that caused public backlash.
The only thing they’re rethinking is how to repackage this so people accept it. They learned a lot from this, but I promise you it wasn’t the right lesson.
Like, even if they do listen to the community, it still isn’t good enough for the Linux shills on here.
God, the Linux community is so uptight. It really doesn’t do FOSS any favour acting like this.
It would be less bad if they could all agree to one recommended distro, but even that is an impossibility.
Your problem with the Linux community is that there’s a lot of options? I cannot understand how that’s a bad thing. If there was only one distro it would be the same as now, but with less diversity.
The reason this isn’t good enough is that it’s a shallow capitulation by a company still massively over invested in AI. Nobody believes Microsoft is actually going to give up on shoving AI down people’s throats, they’re just gonna be more subtle about it now.
Microslop Microslop Microslop. Microslop?
Microslop.
…for now.
I swear. Society at large will never learn from Microsoft’s games.
I won? Of course I did, I don’t use Windows anymore, I’ve been using Linux for years now.
I bet they turn this into even more AI
“Are you really staying off windows for good?”
Yes | Remind Me Later
Won? They will do it again. The only winning move is not to play their game. Choose Free Software.
Genuine question: What do you recommend? I want to replace Windows 10 on a 8-year-old midrange laptop with something that works reasonably well in terms of performance with a connected 4K monitor.
I’ve already tried Ubuntu, but unfortunately the experience has been marred by bugs such as poor performance, visual glitches, windows jumping around when attempting to move them, and DPI settings not being able to be applied per screen.
I’ve had more luck with Mint, thanks to its Windows-adjacent GUI and user-friendly on ramp. Still encountered a few issues (a couple of peripherals that didn’t support Linux drivers). But on the whole, it’s improved system performance over Win10 and synced smoothly with my workstation.
I can’t say I’ve had those issues myself, so my recommendation may not be valid in your case. I’d say maybe give Fedora with KDE Plasma a try, and try switching between X11 and Wayland sessions if issues persist.
I personally don’t like Ubuntu, but that’s mostly because of Canonical making the occasional sketchy decision.
On the whole, distro choice doesn’t matter quite as much these days, as most distros should work fine out of the box. Whatever issues you have should technically be solvable with a bit of troubleshooting.
Sometimes Linux just doesn’t play well with your setup. Good luck, and I hope you find something that works for you!
Linux is definitely the route. A lot of people use Mint or Ubuntu. But they are usually running out of date drivers.
I’d recommend looking into distros based on Fedora Workstation. It stays up to date but not as much as Arch so that it’s stable.
My recommendation is any of the Universal Blue images that fit your need. They are based off of the Fedora Atomic image with added quality of life features.
If you identify your laptop (including model number) someone who has the same hardware might be able to make a solid recommendation.
It’s a HP Pavilion Power 15-cb091nd.
Edit: wanted to reply.
After pushback from users? Or after realising how much it’s costing them on the server end?
Too little too late. I’m already over to Linux now. Shit’s been going downhill even before this whole AI craze went off the rails. I hope Microsoft Windows crashes and burns
I hope Microsoft Windows crashes and burns
