It’s good to have a rational for your choices. And we know it can’t be because you think Microsoft makes good software that you enjoy using.

Linux is easier to install than Windows. With the new Win11 requirements, Linux is the only choice for PC hardware more than 5yo. And like you say, hardware drivers just work. This used to be Windows major advantage, but now the chance you run into a compatibility issue is about the same for either OS.

pick me from history

It’s a tool that has gone from interesting (GPT3) to terrifying (Veo 3)

It’s ironic that you describe your impression of LLMs in emotional terms.

Windows users are a revenue stream, not customers. M$ views it’s users as a sort of raw material that can be processed with dark patterns for ads and subscriptions. And like everything else, Americans are treated with the most disrespect and coercion.

I installed Ubuntu back when that was popular, and insisted on having all the graphical bling, like 3d cube that would spin to change desktops. And windows that shook like jello when you moved them.

Of course all this messing around by an amateur did nothing for stability and after 3 or 4 frustrating issues I went back to Windows.

Oh, I see now. This is actually pretty cool then.

Nobody is going to install this on my TP-Link. The back door is factory.

I read the headline and made a bad assumption that would have been corrected if I read the article.

That’s awesome! I never installed this crap on Windows, now I get to skip installing it on Linux. Keep up the good work.

Also Clegg

asking women for permission would ruin my sexlife.

probably.

The Last Jedi is top 3 out of the Skywalker movies easily.

In a few short years, you’ll see. The sequels will be redeemed just as the prequels before them. Time is a flat circle.

It’s great to see Elmo suffer.

But I’m reminded that the concept of “voting with your dollars” and “consumer activism” are the ways capitalism has captured revolutionary activity into a fashion that serves the ego, satiates the desire to act, and neuters any chance of efficacy.

When capitalists see the demand for change, they package it, promote it, and trade it on the market.

TED is just like sharktank. Only instead of having a good business idea contestants compete to sooth the guilt of wealthy liberals and promise them that technology is going to save us.

I was actually delighted when Windows 11 added tabs to notepad and explorer, and layers make MSPaint worth using.

But all of these things became buggy messes. Explorer showing ads for OneDrive and inexplicable behavior, On more than one occasion, the address bar would become unusable, and I deeply resent having to use the mouse to do simple tasks.

Now I know that this was prelude to Copilot.

So now I daily drive Debian making me a computer user, not a resource for billionaires to mine.

It’s weird that Linux certification requires rote-memorization of commands. The only people who make any effort to memorize commands are newbies and people studding for exams. You will always have access to bash history, man, and --help, even from an offline machine.

Every command I’ve memorized is simply the natural process of repetition. Is that your experience?

I hate AI as much as the next lemming, but nobody is going to tell me a babble fish for real isn’t cool AF.

However, the company said it had found no evidence to date that its Azure platform and AI technologies were used to target or harm people in the Gaza Strip.

A lawyer wrote that statement. I read between the lines that M$ has a don’t ask, don’t tell policy in regards to war crimes.

There are workarounds to almost every issue you may have. You can run Windows in a VM for software that requires it, or dual boot. M$ Office can be ran in a browser now. There is no reason to buy a license, just DL windows10 direct from M$ and never register, all they do is lock you out of some display options and add a watermark to your desktop.