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Microsoft is releasing a big Windows 11 update on September 26. Update 23H2 includes the new AI-powered Windows Copilot feature, a native RAR app, a new volume mixer and a lot more.

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[–] [email protected] 138 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Oh, another system wide crapware that nobody is going to use.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 years ago

They might as well call it Cortana AI

[–] [email protected] 82 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Still chasing the dream of mainstream Clippy acceptance.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago (4 children)

fr tho, MS has been on the digital assistant thing for decades at this point.

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I see you are trying to open the terminal, would you like me to:

A: break your knees

B: kill your entire family

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

“I’m sorry but you didn’t supply a valid answer which means that you want both. I will send a contract killer to your house immediately. Would you like to leave feedback on how I did?”

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 years ago (5 children)

"a new volume mixer" - please just be an interface change and nothing dramatic 👀

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Or make it open when clicking the icon instead of hiding it behind two clicks. Everytime I use Windows, I love KDE more.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Going off of Dave Plummer's video, looks like copilot is kind of a wash. It has the potential to do some neat stuff on desktop, but its crappily shoehorned into the OS instead.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"This time you're going to love Cortana. For reals!"

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Every tech company is pulling this stupid bullshit now. Mine is also trying to find any way they can to shoehorn an LLM into their product. It's marketing BS

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Underpants gnomes economics.

  1. Integrate AI into everything, even where it doesn't make any damn sense.

  2. ???

  3. Profit.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Hoping they've made it better since

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 years ago (15 children)

Can we just ungroup the damned Taskbar already? I don't understand why they are being so stubborn on this.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

That's already available for insiders and can be enabled, meaning it will soon-ish come to the stable versions of Windows 11.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (9 children)

That's the number one reason I stayed on 10. I'm figuring out a swap to Linux - gaming is my only concern. Might just dual boot.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Other than game devs who intentionally block Linux with anti-cheat (Epic, Riot) almost all other games work perfectly fine on Linux nowadays.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I recommend StartAllBack. Granted no third party apps should be required for such a simple feature, StartAllBack does this and more.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I actually spoke with one of the people on the team for this the other week.

They have significant money problems. Copilot is expensive as crap to run, and this is about to make the situation 10x worse.

(Also this feature was completely broken a few weeks ago, so I'd be surprised if it launches without a hitch)

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago

Man fuck that shit.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Who would even create rar archives these days, when there is 7zip?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

Everybody using usenet.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Memesters, because WinRAR is a negware type of shareware (having an unlimited trial period), which constitutes as being "the good guy".

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

a native RAR app

It better come with a "Trial Expired" pop-up or I am not using it

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago (2 children)

If I look at what Windows 11 is, its features and the new features, I honestly can’t work out who Microsoft’s target market is anymore.

With the pricing for AI, I can’t even work out which enterprises would consume it.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Here's the funny thing. Some enterprise sectors will not use W11 until it has some sysadmin reliable way to disable all the telemetry. In my company W11 and Chrome are banned because they cannot be locked down from phoning home, which is a security liability. No way they're going to allow a rogue blackbox LLM running wild in our computers.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

You just have to use the Enterprise addition and group policy out their stuff. It isn't really hard if you have been doing it with Windows 10 but you have to start with the Enterprise addition and that can be $$$

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago (3 children)

This type of shit is why i jumped to linux mint recently. Who the hell removed the right click menu options. I'm sure it will be back as a feature.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

They didn't remove it. Go down to the bottom and choose More Options.

It's bullshit but they're still there

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

Old context menu is still there. Need to do a regedit to make it default again.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago

Like baking a turd into a mud cookie.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

The only feature I'm looking forward to is the ability to ungroup multiple instances of the same program in the talk bar. That feature was around forever but for some reason they disabled it in Windows 11.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (10 children)

How do I install the nVidia drivers on Linux? I asking in case I decide to finally switch (found some Linux DAW, now all is happy, likely will go with Ubuntu + KDE).

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Lol nope. Definitely sticking with 10 for the foreseeable future.

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