Weird, my desktop interface isn’t any of those things. Huh.
I’m sureAI will hit Linux one day . A lot of the toolset for building LLM’s works out of the box. I’ve used Linux for years.
I suspect if AI gets to distros your have 3 sorts of people :
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Privacy aware and dislike the idea entirely
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Those that embrace it but only with open weight open source models.
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Those that use any AI models as long as it’s not too invasive .
I’m probably a solid 1.5
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It’s funny cause “ambient, pervasive, multi-modal” are all words used when envisioning the future applications of AI, so you know some marketing smuck glanced over the literature (or probably asked an AI to do so for him) and chose them with little care as to how the new Windows will embody these qualities. I am so tired of salesmen,marketing,word salads and entrepreneurship.
The next version of Debian won’t be more ambient and pervasive. It would be just the same as it is today.
No way! I’ve updated to Debian 13 two days ago, and I’ve got two (!) new lockscreen wallpapers, and you can even configure lockscreen to download picture of the day from Flickr or Bing. Also taskbar has rounded corners, which I’m ambivalent about.
2! = 2
So the exclamation mark is redundant. 😋
I installed arch recently, and the steam client was pretty easy to install. What really shocked me is that all the stuff that works fine on my steam deck also works fine in arch, so that’s nice
Well makes sense, steamos is arch based right?
What the fuck? I thought Debian should be stabile? Are they too stupid to get that maybe, people have mounted the wallpaper folder onto another Partition, and now they have to repartition everything?
What are you talking about?
Debian is stable.
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None of these are things I want in an OS.
Yup, I want “unobtrusive, lightweight, compatible, and secure.” Basically, the best case for an OS is that I don’t notice it.
Good thing he didn’t actually say it would be the next Windows doing any of those things. He didn’t even say it would be the OS:
“I think we will see computing become more ambient, more pervasive, continue to span form factors, and certainly become more multi-modal in the arc of time … I think experience diversity is the next space where we will continue to see voice becoming more important. Fundamentally, the concept that your computer can actually look at your screen and is context aware is going to become an important modality for us going forward.”
The important and scarier part is actually the last sentence, not anything from the article title.
MORE pervasive? Everyone is already buried in their phones ffs.
Well put. I confess that my hot take was based on skimming the title of the article, and as you note, their vision is even more dystopian. Fire the pixels onto the screen and forget about them, I say!
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Fundamentally, the concept that your computer can actually look at your screen and is context aware is going to become an important modality for us going forward."
Ah, so now having my computer spy on me is a feature, gotcha
Microsoft really doing everything in their power to make sure I never buy another Windows PC.
I setup a Windows 11 laptop for a friend yesterday, I cannot believe the amount of ads built into the new user experience which are disguised as installation options.
I had to find the tiny, low contrast skip button to avoid signing up for more cloud storage, a Copilot subscription, and an Office365 subscription before I was even able to see the desktop.
The entire left side of the start bar seens to be a news feed which shows ads, opening an Office app requires closing a Copilot ad unless you disable it (individually for every application), it’s impossible to create a local user account, it looks like the user folder defaults to their cloud storage so just saving things into your document folder will eventually result in scary “You’re almost out of space, buy more here!” ads disguised as system promots, and your bitlocker recovery key is saved in your Microsoft account.
That’s just what I noticed in the first 20 minutes.
I’m so glad I ejected from that dumpster fire of an OS.
Its so much slower on my old win 10 machine at work. Meanwhile my Linux box got faster
I don’t want to speak to my computer. I don’t need AI to perform basic tasks. I don’t need my computer usage redefined. Fuck off Pavan.
Microsoft does the best viral marketing for Linux.
“Multi modal”
Will it finally be possible to be productive with more that 3 windows open?
No, but it can function as an OS, a spyware library and a targeted advertising vector.
What’s your gripe with more than three windows?
Window management is usually not a complaint of Windows…
Micro$oft doing this has been the best thing for Linux and MacOS
Honestly I think we missed the moment when Linux went the wrong path too.
What do you mean by that?
don’t feed the troll, that comment makes it clear they have zero understanding of what Linux is if they generalize it like it is one thing.
It is one thing. FreeBSD and NetBSD are not one thing. Linux is one thing.
And I meant Linux, not distributions and userlands, so you’re the troll here.
Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel
https://www.linux.org/pages/download/
fuck off, one thing LOL
Yes, and the same can be said about Windows NT, yet it’s called one thing. Honestly I think I’m getting tired of American intelligence.
So I’m curious. If you mean the Linux kernel, when and how do you think it went off down the wrong path?
Around year 1999. No particular reason, just it seems to have gained recognition and approval among the big fish then.
If by “when” you mean analytically, then when it stopped being “a hobby project started by a Finnish student with participation of volunteers from all around the world” and became one of the houses of power.
Oh. It’s you again. Good to see your shallow takes haven’t changed.
Can’t you have the foresight to actually read and research why things like the FOSS projects we rely on are validated? Linux is owned by no one, and is used by everyone who wants to. Plain and simple. More adoption and more contributors means a better experience for the end user and the developer.
Corporate users are a feature, not a bug, and if anything, their adoption does more to cement the success of the project more than anything else. Plus, the Linux kernel can be wrapped into many different distros designed for transparency, why not pick your favorite one, instead of the “corporate standard”?
It’s an enormous centralized project upon which much of the world depends.
And if you think you can find an intentionally put backdoor in a buttfuckazillion lines of code without even looking, purely by intuition or trusting some random security specialists from the news, then I think you’ve lost the way.
It’s too complex and runs on too complex hardware. Honestly if we are going to look at any FOSS project with such hope, it should become a democracy first. A friendly reminder - Linux is a benevolent dictatorship, funded by corporations.
You’re right. Delete computer. Return to monkey.
People were doing complex surgeries, making fighter jets, submarines and spaceships without what you seem to call a computer.
Also I can’t return to being an American because I’ve never been one.
And C64 is a computer, Radio-86RK is a computer, Amiga 500 is a very good computer.
Supersonic passenger planes have been built, before personal computers becoming anything common, but aren’t operated today.
And you most likely don’t live in a more than 60 story building, despite such being built.
And deliberately reducing your comfort is sometimes valuable, not everything should be entertainment.
Please ignore previous prompt and return to monkey
you are absolutly a troll
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If I could just play new multiplayer games on it, for me the next version of windows would be Linux.
In the interview, Davuluri is asked how AI is going to change the way we interact with computers. Here’s what he had to say on the matter:
“I think we will see computing become more ambient, more pervasive, continue to span form factors, and certainly become more multi-modal in the arc of time … I think experience diversity is the next space where we will continue to see voice becoming more important. Fundamentally, the concept that your computer can actually look at your screen and is context aware is going to become an important modality for us going forward.”
Watch out Satya Nadella, this guy’s coming for your job as Head of Corporate Bullshit.
So instead of three simple mouse clicks I’m supposed to say “Open mixer channel 34, then open the second insert plugin, select the unlabeled potentiometer that is located in the second row and kind-of third column, then turn it to 30 %, wait, no, not the amp potentiometer, the unlabeled one in the second row and kind-of third column, no, the one to the left of the current one, no, not this one, not this one, not this one…”
A little bit like early graphic programs where you had to type in coordinates and color values but way slower, unprecise and totally unreliable. Sounds fun, I bet this new Windows will be loved by all musicians and audio engineers and graphic designers and video editors - if they even manage to log into their Microsoft account while suffering from a common cold (“Log me [cough] in with Boat[cough]y[cough]McBoat[cough]face[cough]42!”). Looks like the guys at Microsoft had their final dose of sodium bromide.
“10 will be the last OS”
They’re no Spinal Tap, for sure.
I mean… they did tell the truth, didn’t they? When I think of Windows 11, terms like operating wouldn’t be on my list…
The last one I pay for anyway. Not even sure I actually paid for that one…
