Soon you will be there when they integrate AI into Solitaire.

If AI was actually good, I could see it being particularly useful for a file search.

Where you could type, "Hey, um, find me that one expense report file from a few years ago, the one that shows expenses of both companies together" and it would actually be able to 'understand' what file you were looking for and go find it.

But I'm sure if you type that into Microslop's AI search bar, it will respond by launching Edge to search Bing for '10 most expensive companies'.

Not me. Never upgraded to 11. Final straw was microslop Recall.

Subscription based lol. I think linux have enough free tools to support basic office work and retail stuff, so majority of work pc can just switch to linux. Hope m$ get fucked.

Time to switch to Linux completely

ZorinOS seems like a decent choice.

I am entry level and mint is so far being nice with me, just that my pc is old so it kinda lags

Turn off the TPM module in your BIOS. All updates stop. And yeah, consider alternatives.

No fucking way. Half the world is still on 10

Mint.

Holy shit. Just fucking stop

When I started 3 years ago I was distrohopping almost every week... For gaming on Nvidia+Intel combo - arch Linux distros with kde is where I found peace... Started with endeavouros and now I use cachyos with kde plasma. Both are quite good. I have installed limine+ Snapper and this does system snapshot on each update. Never needed it though and every time I am updating irresponsibly. Gl, install any Linux.

Fascinating case study on how a company grows to a certain level and then rots from the inside.

I'm sure there are genius level marketing and finance dudes at Microsoft who can show how these changes look great on a spreadsheet. And I'm sure it works out for the next quarter or two or ten.

Who knows though, maybe the consumer PC os selling businesses is dead. And selling consumer software licenses is dead. And the only way to get any revenue out of consumers these days is to sell their eyeballs to advertisers.

https://fedoraproject.org/

Even Windows 11 looks better than this shit.

Yes please. And make it require 73GB of RAM. Let's accelerate this shit up.

If you're a loser.

Fully modular makes me think of microkernel OSes. Imagine if that behemoth of a Kernel, the NT Kernel was suddenly converted to a microkernel design haha.

Ubuntu is definitely the best entry-level user-friendly Linux distro to start with, the latest installation process is so simple.

Mint, or possibly bazzite if you're a gamer, because that's the Linux distro Gamers Nexus picked to test performance on.

Or, valves steam os should have a fleshed out PC version very soon.

10 IOT has several years of security support, and of not activated you only get the watermark.

Massgrave to activate (haven't done it myself though, I don't care about the watermark)

Excellent. Finally the cycle of alternating good and bad versions of Windows will be broken. It'll just be bad versions from here on out.

Most POSes are running custom Android ROMs which are super locked down for PCI compliance nowadays; the only apps that are allowed are those provided by the POS company, basically.

The POS industry is lucky that custom ROMs are exempt from the upcoming Google lockdowns or they like other embedded device industries running on Android would be screwed.....

Here's the wiki page for PCI compliance, but the jist is in order for a POS to be able to process payment cards, it has to be crazy locked down for actually valid security purposes.

Some telecom companies are starting to embed AI subscriptions in regular internet+TV service contracts

What the fuck...

Locally(Malaysia), I still see small and medium sized business using window based POS that able to support all sort of payment, especially in service industry. But g

But the real question is, will it run the calculator app?

“Surely they can’t be THAT stupid and double down on this disaster?”

And then I read this 🤣

And selling consumer software licenses is dead. And the only way to get any revenue out of consumers these days is to sell their eyeballs to advertisers.

Microslop learned how to sell ads in OS from Goolag. There's no need to sell OS license.

I haven't worked in retail since 2015 so it may have changed but our system ran on Windows XP and was basically a visual basic interface. It was always amusing when it crashed to desktop and do you remembered how old it's underlying OS is.

Occasionally it would crash and default to Armenians or something so you just had to press buttons from memory to change the language back into English.

For a recurring fee, it'll work half the time.

OR!

Hear me out - keeeep gooooing!

You got this M$LOP! Just one more half-baked "fuck you, customers!" release - cmon bro just one more bro, just trust you, bro

Uhhh didn't Microsoft say Windows 11 was the last version of Windows or am I mistaken? Thought they were doing perpetual updates on 11.

The calculator app is now a link to Copilot. You can ask it in natural language to multiply 2 by 3 and it will tell you "West Dakota".

"Bitch, it might! Sometimes! Sometimes it might not, sometimes it might do "alternative math", you're telling me you can tell the difference, like you're some kinda math expert?! (oh btw fuck you, forgot to say that part)"

• Satya Nadella, pretty sure

Big Tech has decreed you will use AI. Stop resisting and follow your masters wishes.

Gets me everytime

Steam os isn't that great as a daily driver IMO. It's really more focused on the gaming part, and tbh, mint + steam autostart in big picture mode is better at its job.

Might just be my preferences.

There was a Microsoft engineer who once said (on twitter maybe?) that Windows 10 would be the last version ever and it would simply be updated again and again, and even though that one employee is the only source, the Internet took it as gospel. After Windows 11 came out, the story shifted to Windows 11 being the last version ever.

they are hoping businesses will be forced to buy the AI slop machines.

People will buy that. People will take on debt to affort it. Because for most people the PC is an appliance they use to watch Facebook and use Office. They don't want to learn anything more than the bare necessities.

isnt thats why they are peddling it to governments, and LARGE BUSINESSES.

I think I will resist good sir. Now if you don’t mind.

opens state sponsored newspaper on the toilet

The calculator app might have remote code execution vulnerability, so you are better off uninstalling it and asking Copilot instead.

probably to MACOS, which would be mainstreamed.

tripling down, when you double down again after doubling down.

The real question is - is 64GB RAM and a 5090 the minimum system requirements?

oh no, it will work for that. but ask it for 20 × 300 and you will get 5000. just good enough that people without critical thinking skills will find it amazing.

As others have already recommended, Linux Mint. Although I had trouble getting my two monitor set up to work, I couldn't set the Scale for each monitor individually). Or Bazzite, which worked right out of the box for me