God Damn it MS
Microsoft did this with Internet Explorer and Windows 98; they make IE the shell for file explorer so as to ensure IE could never be removed.
To the top. History is repeating itself.
Those who do learn history are doomed to bear the consequences of the FUCK wads who don’t.
How to disable Copilot
For Pro, Enterprise, or Education users
Press Windows + R, type gpedit.msc, and press Enter. Navigate to User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Copilot. Double-click “Turn off Windows Copilot,” select “Enabled,” then click Apply and OK. Restart your computer for the changes to take effect.
For Home users
Home users without access to the Group Policy Editor can disable Copilot via the Windows Registry. Press Windows + R, type regedit, and press Enter. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows. Create a new key named WindowsCopilot if it does not exist. Inside this key, create a new DWORD (32-bit) value named TurnOffWindowsCopilot and set its value to 1. Restart your computer to apply the change.
Was expecting to see “install Linux” in one of the spoilers. Nice to see actual help.
How to disable Copilot
Delete Windows.
Seriously, you think those switches will keep working?
They will for Enterprise - their only paying clients.
Home is fucked.
Pro is probably soon to be fucked.
Protip: Export the registry key into a .reg file, write a script that installs it and put that in autostart. Otherwise every major update will revert your edit.
But if you’re at that point, even Slackware will give you fewer headaches.
Everyday that passes my satisfaction has grown since jumping over to Linux Mint.
Everyday that passes my satisfaction has grown since jumping over to Linux Mint.
Yes! Our recent Linux Mint software update drama was some nice new quality of life improvements coming to the next version of KDE Plasma.
Watching Windows 11 unfold from this side has been like sipping a cup of hot tea on the porch, wearing a good jacket, during a rain storm, while holding the storm door open for folks coming in out of the bad weather.
I’m thrilled for seeing my RAM idle at half the amount it did when I was on Windows. Loving Mint… or any debian distro for that matter.
I nuked my win11 installation a week ago and went with cachyos (it’s arch btw) and I just feel like; even if mslop fixes their shit, I wont go back.
Woah, Arch users scares me, the way you meet someone that is much taller!
How is your time so far with the new OS? Lots of new things and issues?
Sliding in the comments: CachyOS is really easy to use, nothing mystical about it.
Yeah, its handholdy.
Ive used arch on a few servers so it feels homey even if I’ve never used a wm before. Most issues has been small and solvable.
Mints great. I like POPos myself but its all good.
Guys, what’s the best Linux distro to install on my PC?
The community:
I love when people try to criticize this. They cant imagine having options.
Yep im guilty of that.
Honestly as long as theare using some kind of *nix im happy.
What, you mean it wasn’t there already ? It’s the only place where it would be actually useful.
You would hope, but knowing how competent copilot is, it’s just going to turn out like this:
User:
I’m running out of space, can you help me clean up?AI:
Sure thing, I can help with that. You have some programs that haven’t been opened since 2017. Would you like me to delete them?User:
YesAI: OK, let me do that for you.
I apologize, but as an AI Agent, I am not allowed to delete files or uninstall programs automatically. You can remove them yourself, however. I have created the cleanup.txt file on your desktop, which you can run by renaming the file to cleanup.bat, right-clicking on it, and selecting “Run as administrator”.
User:
Thank you, I did that but it only freed up a little bit of space. Can you find more?Error processing request: 0xC3E9A005.
Unable to connect to copilot agent service:
The system can not find the module specified: “kernel32.dll”I’m sorry…
Helpful???
Just put fedora on an old dell laptop and it recognized the dual nvidia and intel cards out of the box 🥳
Dual-booting Win 11 and Bazzite while I figure out the flow for myself and whether I can shove off into the deep end without Win 11.
If you enjoy gaming or steam-related apps, Bazzite comes kitted out with most of what you’ll need to be successful out the gate.
Aside from EAC-based games, I’ve found a lot of my games just run better without the Win 11 bloat in the background.
Exploring Windows alternatives has never been easier in my opinion.
Bazzite is great. I’m even able to do low latency wireless streaming of Beat Saber to my Quest 3 using Alvr, though I do get occasional crashes (AMD 9060xt)
Steam Link also works really well as for low latency streaming to Quest in my experience on my Quest 2.
Wasn’t it bad enough, already? Did they already exhaust all other ways to make it worse?
Of course, make an anti-feature part of an integral part, which coincidentally also happens to handle personal files…
Yes. One could imagine the privacy invasion will be completely “coincidental”, and fairly complete, for many users.
Had a yarn to the household today, it’s Linux time.
Let’s face it. Windows search couldn’t find shit before - what’s a few more hallucinations?
If I need to run some bespoke piece of software that doesn’t run on wine or a VM of older windows - I’ll find an alternative. I’ll leave Microsoft to its oily rags and matches.
soon there be some news about copilot deleting user files
