"Rico!"

"Kaboom?"

"Yes Rico, kaboom!"

Terminal

MS abandons its other departments development for SLOP 100%. they are on a path to self-destruction.

They're already changing the name of MS Office to "Microsoft Copilot App". So when you use Copilot inside Microsoft Office on Windows, you'll be running Copilot in the Copilot App on Copilot OS.

"I know we said Windows 10 would be the last version of Windows you'd need, but we really mean it this time with Windows 11. Introducing our new operating system... Compost, I mean, Copilot!"

Microsoft One Copilot would bean incredibly Microsoft thing to call Windows

Microsoft CopilOSt

clears throat

stop smoking? how is this relevant ?? ;)

Users: File search should not be this bad
Microsoft: How about this bad?

You don't understand .... you have to talk to file explorer and convince it you really need that file and then talk it into searching for it. (Makes sense .... would YOU like to go into onedrive and try to find something ????)

But much agentics tho.

Because there aren’t any developers in charge any more. At places like MS and Google now promotions are given to people who make a big splash. Fixing a bug doesn’t get attention.

It’s been surreal watching my technically-inclined friends switch.

Microslop*

Makes sense... No one has promoted linux since 1991 so hard like microsoft does these last 6 months.

it really is wild that they're pushing away so many people, who otherwise would just sit with them forever, just because profits must always increase

like all they have to do is stop making things worse and people will stay with them and continue joining them. that's literally all they have to do. and they can't do it.

The current version of macOS, Tahoe, is also atrocious. It's completely unusable on a desktop, it feels like they want to make it work like an iPad.

For the better or worse, the only good OS is now Linux.

The agent has decided you need more OneDrive storage. Your credit card will be charged. If you disagree with the agent, grandma's pictures will be deleted. Comply and rent Batman the Dark Knight Arises on the Windows Store.

It probably "saw" the trash icon somewhere and some "deep thought" model concluded that erasing everything was a good idea.

I'm surprised at this. If I was given the job to fuck up windows, I wouldn't be able to get such ludicrous ideas

Copilot is falling very far behind all of the other big AI players in the space that it's actually laughable. The main reason they're implementing it into every Windows first party application is so they can boost their "user" numbers to satisfy investors. Every time you open Explorer, boom that counts as you "using" Copilot.

Is the share price going up? All they care about is the share price.

Nadella’s buddies are all making AI garbage, so he thinks he has to make AI garbage too. Because he’s massively uncreative.

And so all the managing leads think “Nadella likes AI! I must find a way to shove AI into my product so that my product/fiefdom doesn’t get the axe! I might even get a bonus! Or promotion!!!”

And so all the coding slaves are tasked with shoehorning AI into every Microsoft product, app, and/or service.

I wonder how many surveillance dollars are going into that company that isn’t publicly known.

Imagine knowing what every user is doing? What they read, what they play? What pictures they take? What websites they prefer? Where they get their news? Who they speak with? Their social graph? Where they shop? How often? What their finances look like? Who they work for? What they do for them? How connected they are? How that company is doing? What their quarterly report look like before they make it public? What their plans are for those upcoming layoffs? Who they do business with for importing? What the next big thing they’re designing is?

What Microsoft is attempting to do is to create a planned economy that only benefits the rich. They’re trying to do the thing they always complain is bad about Communism, but do it in a way that gives the rich people control.

We are living in a trap and Microsoft must be eradicated from all computers and networks. OpenAI too.

There are thousands of data brokers but we don't really know to who Evil corp is selling data

I like somethings sloppy, but definitely not my OSes

Do you want me to fill up your password box for you?

It may not be helpful enough and getting on in age (maybe others know of something similar), but there is a mod called OldNewExplorer that you can run and choose to modify a few elements of Explorer. I've used it to change the details pane from the side back to the bottom of the window.

My father always used Total Commander, the default explorer has always been lame

I also found this project that tries to restore the old start menu and explorer:

https://openshellmenu.com/

Somebody set up us the bomb!

This is just amazing. XD

if you judge it by the standards of current system performance, the phrasing is more appropriately "as good as then"

and I hate that that is the case. like seriously, how do you fuck up file explorer (and I'm not talking about whatever this post is about that I haven't even opened yet, I'm talking about Windows 11 file explorer being essentially not functional)

Yes.

But this is also because your system administrators are incompetent.

There are myriad other ways to accomplish the same thing, but this is easily rolled out via Group Policy.

MS is likely spent all thier R&D on AI, and building datacenters, they want to somehow justfiy recoup the losses from the "profitless LLM"

Never going back.

Looks cool. But holy crap. Windows search is so bad that you need everything.exe. now it's gotten to the point where we need a third party explorer to do the most basic tasks without being bombarded with ads or AI crap.

I just really... REALLY wish citrix and epic worked on Linux. I would switch in a heart beat if this gets pushed into the wild.

I've been on Directory Opus for many years, it's absolutely excellent and I struggle when on Linux without the same toolbox.

... which, in firefox, is either off by default or can be switched off.

check out librewolf or waterfox for firefox without the corporate garbage and with more secure and private defaults.

It does this already.

you have a few options. yes, wine. also, lutris, winboat, and bottles. these all act as 'make windows app run like any other app on my linux machine'. if those don't work for your program then you can try installing a windows virtual machine with virt-manager. if you're familiar with docker, check out dockur/windows for a docker container that automates a quick win vm setup with a webgui. (disclaimer: i have not tried this project yet, don't know how well it works)

if you need heavy gpu use, however, you might have to dual-boot. you have linux installed on one disk partition and windows installed on another. you pick which one you want with the grub bootloader menu that shows when you start up. you can only run one at a time and must reboot to switch. it's highly recommended to install windows first, then linux, and familiarize yourself with repairing grub with a linux liveusb as windows updates frequently break it. don't worry i know that sounds scary, but it's just the bootloader that breaks, not your linux or windows install, and it's just a few simple commands to fix.

imho almost any professional software should work with wine/lutris/winboat/bottles/vm, but dual boot is there if you find it necessary.

also consider if you actually do need those particular pro programs. there are likely multiple foss (free and open source software) projects that do whatever it is you need to do. of course if it's a case of company policy mandating use of certain programs there's not much you can do besides dual-boot.

Think of wine as an emulator. It's a program that runs in Linux that then runs Windows programs. Usually quite well. It's all done without leaving Linux.

Dual boot is when you start the computer up you can either boot into Linux or Windows, both are options but they don't run at the same time.

There is also the possibility of running other OS in a virtual machine. Like https://www.virtualbox.org/

If you do that you don’t leave Linux, but spin up an environment where you can have a full installation of i.e. Windows running. Your Windows environment is not aware of Linux, which it is hosted on, and should behave like a normal Windows machine.

I may sound complicated, but is pretty easy to use when you get going. Try watching a few videos on the subject if you are interested.

Lutris, vmware

Yeah but people just WINE about linux.

Which program do you want? The general solution is to install the program via WINE. Another solution is to run the entirety of windows in an emulator like QEMU.

Anyone know how to downgrade from 11 to 10 on a home version?

Make a Win 10 USB boot drive, boot into it, choose to format the drive, install 10.

That said, don't hook this computer up to the internet, Windows 10 isn't getting security updates.

That’s the goal.

No more personal computer. Only dumb terminal and cloud. You will rent your needs from the rich. You will own nothing and like it. Your income is their revenue stream, or you shall cease to function in society.

This is robbery.

You're funny my friend. Their AI agents don't see any problems with file explorer's performance. It will never get fixed, it will just become more bloated and broken as time goes on.

Ha, I did the same thing on my work computer. It's a little broken in some aspects, but a 1000x better the using that dumpster fire know as File Explorer (oh sorry MS let me get it right... Microsoft File Explorer Copilot App)

Because tech bros have a kink with shoving AI into every single thing... even your rectum in the near future. Prepare yourself my friend.