Unfortunately for Microsoft and Davuluri, the response has been overwhelmingly negative, so much so that the comments on that X post have now been disabled.
Save you a click: not surprisingly, they plan to add a ton of AI features that no one asked for (“agentic OS”) tired to the cloud, etc, to the point that it will require new AI-specific hardware to run.
Oh yeah those functionalities are going to solve climate change you know
So we should make sure to buy dumb x64 processors without ai accelerators?
I found Linux Mint to be a reasonable upgrade path from Windows 11. I’m 60 years old and figured it out. It plays my games, runs Libreoffice, Jellyfin, Gimp, Inkscape, and Blender, which covers everything I want to do on a PC.
The only thing it can’t do is drive my cheap autofeed photo scanner (it drives my Epson flatbed just fine) I got to finally digitize my family photos for my kid, so maybe he’ll look at them someday. I have an old laptop running Win10 to do that. Once that project is done in a couple of months, I’ll put Linux Mint on the laptop and get several more years of use out of it, I expect.
I had a similar experience earlier this year. I want to convert my main pc to some flavor of Linux, and I tried out about 5 over a month by setting up a VM. The one I wanted to try the most wouldn’t install through vm, but the rest were fine. Once I found a few I liked, I tried seeing how hard it would be to find an alternative for everything I use and do. I think like 90% was great, but there were a handful of things that either didn’t have any alternative or it was not a very good alternative. Still, I really want to get off windows by next year. I am even tired of what they are trying to do.
Try VueScan: https://www.hamrick.com/
It is a great distribution that’s for sure! Ideal for the vast majority of users needs.
I actually live naps2 for all things scanning related. Give it a try. Cross platform baby!
It is going to be called Copilot. And Microsoft will change the company name to Copilot as well.
That’s very meta of them.
Then they’ll spin off a company called New Copilot with an almost identical icon and product.
But it’ll be a shell company to absorb all the lawsuits due to privacy violations and data breaches
Im really unhappy with AMDs fall recently. They need to get their shit together and understand that “AI” is not the future and will only ruin them.
Same, the way they more or less dominated the market with the advent of Ryzen was a breath of fresh air and now for some reason they feel the need to fill that air with rancid farts.
The company is working on Model Context Protocol (MCP) for Windows 11 in an effort to help it become the Agentic OS that essentially will turn Windows into an AI OS.
Here is how Microsoft puts it: “MCP on Windows offers a standardized framework for AI agents to connect with native Windows apps, enabling them to easily participate in agentic interactions on Windows. Windows apps can expose specific functionality to augment the skills and capabilities of agents installed locally on a Windows PC.”
MCP? Really? Somebody wanted a Tron tie-in…
Microsoft didn’t name it that, the MCP protocol is a couple years old at this point and is an open source protocol for exposing functionality to LLMs
Lol, I didn’t catch that at first.
So, they’re letting the bots in through the front door…
Just let them die, it’s fine.
Don’t forget to thank Microsoft for his untiring promotion of Linux as an everyday OS.
