I don't know what they are talking about, the Linux market share did reach 3% and continuing to rise... and is set to break new record of adoption by the end of the year. Clearly they are doing something that is working great. Thank you Microsoft :D

I made the switch last year, and I couldn't go back to window anytime soon, everything work just fine with some compatibility layer or something, even Steam work fine. I just keep ignoring all these anxiety aggravating people who keep preaching the end of the world at the end of windows 10 support, and I've been sleeping better since then, the world haven't stop turning.

In fact, with the money I saved, I made a donation to the Mozilla fondation for Thunderbird.

Seriously, just ignore *them*. You'll thanks me later.

Sometime, some people who think they are more important than they really are, just need a simple lesson: Be left alone in their corner of the world in isolation.

Meanwhile the rest of the world will enjoy a super important tool that Internet Archive is, and they will try to provide better way at enforcing copyright rules than just use the lazy and dumb way and accuse the wrong people and become the needle in the foot that nobody need, because you want to rules like a pyramid, and can't figure out how to punish the actual people who break copyrights, so instead you go after their upstream provider. And note that I am not against enforcing copyrights, but it need to be done in a proper way, not with this plain stupid method.

Absolutely not acceptable.

When I had the chance of trying steam + proton, it became clear that I had to give a real try.

It has been almost a year now, and all my workstation are running either arch or debian. I don't think I would want to ever go back and re-invest myself in the Microjunkie ecosystem that gonna tell me the meteo that I didn't ask for, and try to sell me some specific stocks or tell me about their political view (news), all while forcing me to register an account that nobody want and of course a bunch of telemetry that you are forced to.

GAFAM had one goal, and it is to put an identity on you, so that they can sell it back. Google is doing it with their developper program/device setup, so is Apple, and now Microsoft. There seem to be some sort of incentive to completely FORCE YOU out of your capacity to say NO, I don't want to link my identity or create an account to use this computer or device I bought. And we are not even going in the capacity of refusing AI crap, Telemetry crap, Marketing crap, etc that is being forced bundled with a vast majority of the computers and mobile handheld.

ParasiteOS ?

I guess it is a good thing that Linux desktop has already reach 5% of desktop market, and that Steam work great on it.

GoodbAI Windows :)

Can we have a model that we can choose that isn't powered by Google ?

As a paying GPT user, I would love to have that option, just saying ```\_( o_O )_/```

Oh well, another device that I will have to look for "how to disable the enshittificated battery management on this device so that my apps and the rest function as desired and expected".

Thanks Microsoft.

"This could appeal to developers working in business units or teams that want to build quickly without waiting on formal IT approval."

Because all serious business or corporation wouldn't have employee signing a NDA and/or other forms of contract for mutual confidentiality as a direct, indirect or chained provider or supplier, and thus, wouldn't be allowed to share whatever project, code or other idea on some system that has not been "Approved by IT", that IT team that probably had to go through a set of approvals themself so that the business stay secure but also compliant in the eyes of it insurance, shareholders and others liable party ?

Just a though for nightmares... :)

Seem that some people working in these nice tall building, making decision for all of us, doesn't understand clearly the human nature, and JFC this is so disconnected from reality, that this is plain hilarious.

What is expected is; An utopia where all humans are nice, beautiful, happy, smiling, nice to each others, clean, and recycling 100% of their waste.

What the reality is; Redneck Joe will not give a fuck about you and your bullshit, he and the 40-50%+ of the population, will start again (like our grand parents used to do), throws shit in water, burn it, bury it, export it, bring it to their others neighbor, and do shit like this....

Yeah... instead of making people life easier, let try repression. That worked real nice for Drugs (War on drugs), I'm sure that will be a real success with Garbage bags ! */sigh

Have you seen how VS Code is barely usable when you don't lean toward Subscription based or Pay for 3rd party tools ?

Let take the example of the C# DevKit, where you got to "activate it" to use it, you got to resort using omnisharp to not have to do that. This *granular enshittification* of every fucking aspect of it, is what I am talking about, not just "AI", but lot of things Microsoft does, result into binding you more and more with their services, their partner, their eco-system, instead of really contributing to the free and open source.

It's like getting "Window-rized", piece by piece, slowly by a silent cancer, planning every move it does.

I am debating what would be the best nickname for co-pilot :

- AI Disease ?
- Digital Gangrene ?
- e-Parasite ?
- The thing you can't seem to get rid off ?

Is there a better VS Code replacement since there seem to be no opt-out to the "forced and shoved in the throat AI roadmap" from MS ? Can we please get an IDE that is clean and stripped of bullshit, and that we can disable all forms of AI or does we have to go back to eclipse, clion and others ?

This seem to be a long time planned perversion of the stability, privacy and comfort we have on linux, something that Microsoft seem want to mess up with their co-pilot. It alright that it is been offered as an options, but starting to "insert by force" it every where and then slap "AI" on everything..... what the f... is wrong with you !

That just did remind me why the last HP computer I ever played with, was back in the Windows 98 era.

And it will probably stay that way forever now.

OpenAI seem to be the better choice and would have me consider Apple for one of my next devices !

Especially if OpenAI could pay and buy back Microsoft participation so that they don't have to sign up for shady deals, that would be the best outcome ever.

Playing games on Linux with Steam like POE2 and D4 @ 60 FPS, and loading time is faster than windows...

Truly the year of the Linux Desktop.

Good luck and Farewell in your "Undesired marketing, Forced Telemetry, Forced Microsoft Account Bidding, and others Cloud Bullshits that nobody want to be forced upon, in an attempt of getting the customer to finance MS infrastructure instead of it's own", it has been a nice ride, but we're done here.

Can they do the same thing with 3rd party Kernel Anti-Cheat System ?

Just asking for a friend :D

Just have Canada and USA vote, make and pass laws that make opt-out a default when it concern AI, and to not "force" users to install or use any AI components to use the base functionality of their device. If the users want to, then let be his/her/their choice, not the data-mining company's holding the user hostage to do whatever until they have their AI anal probe installed everywhere and activated.

Just like Microsoft had to re-think their "internet explorer" embedding in Windows, it is time to require and force the GAFAM to act responsibly.

This doesn't prevent them from gathering genuine pigs that want to have that AI everywhere they go, but it would protect the rest of us. It almost like if that was common sense !