Can’t really move to Linux if I have to make software for Windows since the majority of people won’t move to Linux.
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You guys do realize that you can remove copilot from Windows 11 with a simple regedit or group policy editor tweak, right? Takes like 10 seconds..
For now, until MS locks that downvlike they have with other things
Until they lobby to get laws changed, many companies have legal requirements regarding PII that mean serious fines if CoPilot or Recall ever turn on in their environment (and if they're caught of course).
Windows is not going to fuck this up and force this on, handing easy legal wins against them to the world. They will have the normal configuration options available that they always do for features with potential legal liability attached.
Did you miss the recent security blunder with Government security and Microsoft? They didn't want to tell governments of a secuirty hole in case it meant lowers sales.
yah, i have linux on all my devices save one and ive found ways to get win11 to just work without the bullshit.
it just takes about as much effort to learn systemd syntax because everything became the systemd singularity.
And you can skip most of the bullshit by setting up Windows using English UK instead of English USA (and then you can adjust your regional settings and keyboard however you prefer)
You know damn well how ridiculous that sounds. And if this is the answer to removing Copilot, no thanks. Linux works perfectly fine for me and my gaming needs.
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Sadly it is not about learning Linux but getting the software you use on a daily basis natively supported by the OS, that is why Linux is still not there for me yet.
What do you use on a daily basis that's not supported? I see this kind of comment all the time and nobody wants to tell me!
Poor hdr support is one for games and shows.
For games at least (haven’t tested for films/shows as I do that on my TV), HDR support is there. I‘m running nobara htpc, which has everything necessary already set up and any game I ran in gamescope so far worked perfectly fine in HDR.
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Yeah, there is a whole load of Steam games that will only play on Windows systems. I'm looking forward to testing the new implementation of WINE and see if it measures up. If so, I may be dumping Windows 10 for a Linux flavor. Though I don't know if I can get the Windows XBox app to work on WINE. So that's a consideration.
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On my Windows 11 machine I just uninstalled Copilot via the normal app uninstall process. Unless I'm misunderstanding, I don't think it's tied into the OS in any fundamental way. I assume most debloating scripts include the step anyway.
Kinda crap that it's installed by default though.
I didn't even bother. On the machines I have with Win 11 it's either not installed or functional but entirely optional. That whole recall feature never got implemented and honestly at this point I don't know if it'll ever be.
I uninstalled copilot after an update installed it, on win 10
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Just installed an update to 10 2 days ago to find that it had installed Copilot and put an icon for it on my taskbar. Stuff like this is why 10 will be my last version of Windows.
The LSTC edition has a few more years in it... but I wouldn't do MASS in a GRAVE... ehr, I mean - fuck.
Look, just search for "MassGrave" on GitHub.
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i just updated. https://www.startallback.com/ fixed most of my issues along with https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10
shame we have to do it, but even with Linux I have to do a bunch of stuff to make it more usable though at least it wont spy on you by default
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I'd go with Bazzite, which is what SteamOS and Fedora Atomic Desktop would look like if they had a child.
Is it much different to something like Pop_OS? I usually hear of Bazzite as a third-party ROG Ally OS.
Having not used Pop, I can't say for certain, but its likely pretty similar depending on the version of the image you use.
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I agree with all your points.
Honestly I downgraded to 10 earlier this year. Then the windows 11 update came out that boosts Ryzen performance, well my happy ass couldn't miss out on them gains. So back to 11 I went.
My PC is pretty much strictly used for gaming so more power is more power.
I immediately de-bloated once I was updated.
Keyloggers have been present since (at least) win 7. You're all way too late.
Yeah because everyone knows once a company drops LTS the software becomes completely unusable!!!
I just had to use a Windows machine 10 minutes ago for the first time in 3 years. I hated it. I won't be doing that again until I have to.