• GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
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    yay marketing words!

    This means you can expect Windows to get, “verbose, invasive, and difficult-to-use”

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    “I think we will see computing become more ambient, more pervasive, continue to span form factors, and certainly become more multi-modal in the arc of time … I think experience diversity is the next space where we will continue to see voice becoming more important. Fundamentally, the concept that your computer can actually look at your screen and is context aware is going to become an important modality for us going forward.”

    You could fertilize 200 acres with that much bullshit. truly a crime against the English language.

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      don't do it

      Mac does things differently…you like a windows manager? like to make your apps fullscreen and switch desktops? use alt+tab a lot? don’t get Mac.

      install Linux instead.

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    I’m sureAI will hit Linux one day . A lot of the toolset for building LLM’s works out of the box. I’ve used Linux for years.

    I suspect if AI gets to distros your have 3 sorts of people :

    1. Privacy aware and dislike the idea entirely

    2. Those that embrace it but only with open weight open source models.

    3. Those that use any AI models as long as it’s not too invasive .

    I’m probably a solid 1.5

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          It’s an enormous centralized project upon which much of the world depends.

          And if you think you can find an intentionally put backdoor in a buttfuckazillion lines of code without even looking, purely by intuition or trusting some random security specialists from the news, then I think you’ve lost the way.

          It’s too complex and runs on too complex hardware. Honestly if we are going to look at any FOSS project with such hope, it should become a democracy first. A friendly reminder - Linux is a benevolent dictatorship, funded by corporations.

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              People were doing complex surgeries, making fighter jets, submarines and spaceships without what you seem to call a computer.

              Also I can’t return to being an American because I’ve never been one.

              And C64 is a computer, Radio-86RK is a computer, Amiga 500 is a very good computer.

              Supersonic passenger planes have been built, before personal computers becoming anything common, but aren’t operated today.

              And you most likely don’t live in a more than 60 story building, despite such being built.

              And deliberately reducing your comfort is sometimes valuable, not everything should be entertainment.

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          don’t feed the troll, that comment makes it clear they have zero understanding of what Linux is if they generalize it like it is one thing.

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            It is one thing. FreeBSD and NetBSD are not one thing. Linux is one thing.

            And I meant Linux, not distributions and userlands, so you’re the troll here.

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                Yes, and the same can be said about Windows NT, yet it’s called one thing. Honestly I think I’m getting tired of American intelligence.

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                  Linux is only “one thing” if you’re a kernel/driver developer. And even then, Linux via Android (linux fork) is completely different from the normal one.

                  As a user land developer, you can have glibc or musl, initd or systemd. Is dbus being used? They all work differently.

                  Windows is one thing to support. Linux has countless configurations.

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              So I’m curious. If you mean the Linux kernel, when and how do you think it went off down the wrong path?

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                Around year 1999. No particular reason, just it seems to have gained recognition and approval among the big fish then.

                If by “when” you mean analytically, then when it stopped being “a hobby project started by a Finnish student with participation of volunteers from all around the world” and became one of the houses of power.

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                  Oh. It’s you again. Good to see your shallow takes haven’t changed.

                  Can’t you have the foresight to actually read and research why things like the FOSS projects we rely on are validated? Linux is owned by no one, and is used by everyone who wants to. Plain and simple. More adoption and more contributors means a better experience for the end user and the developer.

                  Corporate users are a feature, not a bug, and if anything, their adoption does more to cement the success of the project more than anything else. Plus, the Linux kernel can be wrapped into many different distros designed for transparency, why not pick your favorite one, instead of the “corporate standard”?

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    What the fuck does ambient even mean in the context of an operating system? Is it going to be floating around in the atmosphere of my flat? Is the next version of windows gaseous? Is it sarin gas?

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      That was said by some random Microsoft employee who had no official capacity to say something like that, and the whole thing sounded like they meant to say “latest” anyway. It is and was a worthless statement that got way more attention than it deserved.

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    Fundamentally, the concept that your computer can actually look at your screen and is context aware is going to become an important modality for us going forward."

    Ah, so now having my computer spy on me is a feature, gotcha

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    Just rename it to Copilot 12 or something, it’s way too confusing having a product not branded as copilot.

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    Am I missing something here? The quotes from said lead don‘t mention „the next Windows“ anywhere. He‘s just thinking out loud about what he thinks working on a computer will be like 5 years from now. This is click bait and I wouldn‘t be surprised if they quietly change the title later on after they farmed enough clicks. Awful.

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      What the fuck? I thought Debian should be stabile? Are they too stupid to get that maybe, people have mounted the wallpaper folder onto another Partition, and now they have to repartition everything?

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      I installed arch recently, and the steam client was pretty easy to install. What really shocked me is that all the stuff that works fine on my steam deck also works fine in arch, so that’s nice

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          to be honest that’s exactly why I’m on arch and not ubuntu or cntos. Ironically it was gpt that helped me get it set up and it would have had a lot more trouble without it, but now that the job is done I don’t want it hanging around in the OS like ‘hey buddy squeaking past ya gettn a beer’

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            Ahh I saw bazzite and was like, might as well be that one. I don’t know if I have a preference for immutable/atomic setups yet, but so far I’m enjoying it. Kde plasma is awesome, setting up my own key shortcuts is great, audio device management is super cool. Bazzite has a Bazzar for flatpaks built in with a bunch of cool gaming related stuff.

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      No way! I’ve updated to Debian 13 two days ago, and I’ve got two (!) new lockscreen wallpapers, and you can even configure lockscreen to download picture of the day from Flickr or Bing. Also taskbar has rounded corners, which I’m ambivalent about.