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Microsoft may replace the Start button with the Copilot AI in Windows 12 (www.notebookcheck.net)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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

BSD is the way

[+] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I find freebsd worked really well for me and it was a really easy transition from Linux. I still did most things GUI as I am still relearning command line (my preferred method). I got everything to function out of the box on a laptop that had a free/libre bios (libreboot). I don't game on it, I use it primarily for emails, documents, browsing, etc. I was tired of distro hopping and decided to try something completely new.

Edit: NetBSD can pretty much run on anything. Openbsd is a very secure system.

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

I ran qmail and other services on FreeBSD back in 2001. It's very solid and battle hardened, but it doesn't have the widespread support that Ubuntu/Fedora have, although as a pure basic server it doesn't seem to matter that much with the ports system.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

I ran it on a Lenovo x200 with libreboot and had no issues, mind you this was only a couple years ago I made the switch. Before that the laptop had debian on it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

DEATH TO ABOMINABLE INTELLIGENCE!

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago

Ahh yes the beginning to Window's end.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago

Sure I'll try it. If it improves my workflows I'll use it

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

I mean... fuck that noise.

But also? That is actually a really good idea. The start menu was always fundamentally flawed and it took the bullshit that was windows 7 (?) to make me realize that. Clicking and navigating through nested menus and trying to guess whether a piece of software was listed by company, the app name, or something else was always a mess. Which is why winkey "dawn of war" was the optimal solution.

And as third party app stores (e.g. Steam) may or may not even bother to make a start menu entry to begin with? Having something that can search your computer AND distinguish between "the document that lists what primes I need to farm" and "the Warframe game itself" is a really good idea.

But yeah... I do not want "AI" based shit in an OS that is known to have a crapton of telemetry that gets toggled back on every time it silently runs an update.

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 years ago

This sounds great, I hope they do it!

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