God Damn it MS
Everyday that passes my satisfaction has grown since jumping over to Linux Mint.
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.
In these trying times it helps more than ever to run an OS that sips rather than slurps that precious ddr5.
I nuked my win11 installation a week ago and went with cachyos (it’s arch btw) and I just feel like; even if mslop fixes their shit, I wont go back.
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?
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.
Mints great. I like POPos myself but its all good.
Everyday that passes my satisfaction has grown since jumping over to Linux Mint.
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.
How to disable Copilot
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.
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.
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.and they say linux is complicated.
How to disable Copilot
Delete Windows.
Seriously, you think those switches will keep working?
There is no way they have an option named TurnOffWindowsCopilot that turns off the Windows Copilot
Of course, make an anti-feature part of an integral part, which coincidentally also happens to handle personal files…
Yes. One could imagine the privacy invasion will be completely “coincidental”, and fairly complete, for many users.
Install Linux Problem Solved
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.
Had a yarn to the household today, it’s Linux time.
Wasn’t it bad enough, already? Did they already exhaust all other ways to make it worse?
I hope my company will switch to something different. Microsoft ist getting worse and worse
KDE Dolphin works on Windows for those who really need Windows. Otherwise I recommend simplified Arch-based distros, but Mint is also good.
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.
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).
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.
soon there be some news about copilot deleting user files
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/
It’s free bro just install it quit being a puss
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.
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.
Great source for sure. Had this bookmarked
Ok, have fun on windows while the rest of us move to Linux and enjoy gaming there.
I’ve never had a single issue with any game on Linux. Just do it
Oh you holding out for those few microtransaction storefronts that are SO much fun?
I’m trying to think of a time when I thought “oh, if only I had an IA assistant in my file manager”…
I have to say it’s probably the only way you’ll ever get any kind of bulk rename out of a Microsoft OS.
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…
What, you mean it wasn’t there already ? It’s the only place where it would be actually useful.
You would hope, but knowing how competent copilot is, it’s just going to turn out like this:
User:
I’m running out of space, can you help me clean up?AI:
Sure thing, I can help with that. You have some programs that haven’t been opened since 2017. Would you like me to delete them?User:
YesAI: OK, let me do that for you.
I apologize, but as an AI Agent, I am not allowed to delete files or uninstall programs automatically. You can remove them yourself, however. I have created the cleanup.txt file on your desktop, which you can run by renaming the file to cleanup.bat, right-clicking on it, and selecting “Run as administrator”.
User:
Thank you, I did that but it only freed up a little bit of space. Can you find more?Error processing request: 0xC3E9A005.
Unable to connect to copilot agent service:
The system can not find the module specified: “kernel32.dll”
I wonder if I’ll soon be able to just lean back and bark orders at my PC.
Jokes on them i replaced explorer with Directory Opus years ago… The only piece of software i miss on linux its perfect
