Also includes Settings app changes, wider support for compressed file formats.

Last month, Microsoft announced that it would continue its put-ChatGPT-in-everything adventure with a new Windows 11 feature called Copilot. The company added generative AI to Edge and to the Bing-powered taskbar Search field months ago, but Copilot promises to be the most visible and hard-to-ignore version of Microsoft’s big AI push in its most visible and hard-to-ignore product.

  • cyanarchy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Windows 11 was the breaking point for me, if I have to learn a whole new operating system it’s going to be one that I actually have control over. I jumped into the deep end for niche reasons but you can make a seamless jump from windows to many distros - there are desktop environments that feel just like Windows. The last great barrier has been the windows-centric disposition of gaming, and Valve has made incredible strides in that field by way of Proton. For extreme needs, I’ve reduced Windows to an application, and one that I rarely touch.

    And once you get comfortable with Free and Open Source software, you start to feel dirty letting corporations frisk you at every conceivable juncture.

    • KoboldCoterie@pawb.socialEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      there are desktop environments that feel just like Windows

      Would you be able to recommend a couple, for someone who has for all intents and purposes never touched Linux?

      Honestly, the Steam Deck is what would finally let me make the plunge. Gaming has always been the thing holding me back, but after using the Deck and seeing how good compatibility is, if I had to just not play games that weren’t compatible with Linux, I don’t think I’d mind overly much.

      • twack@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Any flavor of Ubuntu is a good first dive, but I personally like Ubuntu Budgie for various reasons, followed by Mate and then Xubuntu.

        Ubuntu has wide community support though, it is unlikely that you will find applications that don’t provide a version already made for it, and most issues can be easily solved with Google.