im confused why they would even brag that 30% of their code was written by ai
even if it worked immaculately, they’re just saying “we didnt work on this very hard”. so why would anyone want to use it? i guess cause they have such an effective monopoly that they know the vast majority of pc users have no other option (as great as linux is your average person is afraid to even go looking in the file manager on windows so installing a whole new OS is realistically out of the question)
Nadella is a legit AI zealot who has tied every aspect of Microsoft (mandating AI use, forcing it into every aspect of their business, closing or cutting any section of the company that isn’t making fistfuls of cash he can immediately use to pour into inflating the AI bubble) to just dumping cash into the AI bubble in an attempt to either completely capture a future market or (more likely) get the world’s largest bailout when the bubble pops. The man brags about how he basically only interacts with his colleagues and even family via dozens of AI chatbots.
I think this kind of communication is mostly addressing their investors. The company has to convince the public that they are more productive than the competition (by using less labour power). They probably assume this messaging will not impact demand.
I still can’t process minesweeper having ads
what’s crazy is that you could ask chatGPT to make a video game and minesweeper probably has one of the highest chances of working correctly on first try.
Did they turn it into one of those shitty mobile games, because that’s what I’m imagining
Yes
Awfully nice of Microsoft to be Linux’s marketing team free of charge.
if for any reason you are chained to using windows 10, pirate the long term service version from somewhere, that one should receive updates until 10 more years or something
Microsoft are providing support and security updates for enterprise customers for another ten years (because loads of shit that makes companies, institutions, government networks etc run on outdated OS’s) but don’t give a shit about individual users so are forcing them to upgrade to their AI-infected Windows 11.
If you pirate the enterprise version it should keep getting security updates etc.
No i mean I get that it’s just kind of fucking absurd
Oh, sorry. I saw the emoji and thought you didn’t know what the other poster was referring to.
Yer good dawg <3
every second release of windows is a completely unusable batshit insane piece of shit, and then they release the “next” one, which is a patched version of the previous one and windows users just keep using it because it’s better than the previous one
Why, that sounds a lot like bourgeois electoralism
Better upgrade to windows 11, you wouldn’t want to use a device that’s incompatible with all the new and exciting hacks and viruses coming out overthe next decade, or worse, have to install the free Linux thing that has no ads or Spyware built in for your convenience.
You have to move to Windows 11 or your computer will be wrecked by malicious code!
^NOT 
I’m a total Linuxlet aside from some extremely limited tooling around in Ubuntu 4 or 5 years ago. I am curious about getting into it as a daily driver, but I have a few different use cases for my W10 machine that I’m not sure I can easily cover.
- Gaming: I play a handful of new(er) titles, mostly indie, and more retro PC games. I know VR is a bit of a bust right now which isn’t great.
- Emulation: Pretty much all consoles that can be emulated.
- Streaming: OBS
- Development: Godot
Anyone know what kind of compatibility issues I’ll run into or have any distro recommendations?
It took me about a day to get it set up well but I do play VR on Linux. It does work
- Most of your games should just work fine these days. If you’re playing live service shooters (usually competitive ones, think Valorant and such) you may have issues with their anti-cheat not liking Wine/Proton, but everything else is usually fine. You can check if your games work here https://www.protondb.com/ and here https://areweanticheatyet.com/
- Pretty much every emulator has a Linux native build, or can be built yourself for Linux with minimal effort. I’ve never had issues with things like Dolphin, Xemu, pcsx2, etc.
- OBS Studio runs natively on Linux and works great.
- Godot also runs natively on Linux and works great. If you’re using other tools in your workflow like Adobe products, you may have issues, but there are a ton of free and open-source alternatives.
And honestly, for distribution, I’d just use Ubuntu. I know I’m probably going to get a lot of flack for saying that, but Ubuntu is much better than Linux Mint and Co. simply because it is more up-to-date (nerd speak, can ignore: Wayland being the biggest thing, Cinnamon is still pretty far behind in this department, and slapping KDE Plasma or GNOME onto Linux Mint has been known to cause issues) than other distributions. It also has the benefit of having the ability to install proprietary codecs and drivers (think Nvidia graphics drivers) out of the box unlike other distributions people like to recommend such as Fedora. Just know whatever distribution you use, at the end of the day, 98% of the software is the exact same across each distribution and there will be no noticeable difference between them for a new user really. If you can get comfortable with 1 Linux distribution, you will be able to get comfortable with any distribution fairly quickly with minor changes.
Bazzite is a popular distro for gaming now apparently, I’ve never used it though
I’m not personally a fan of immutable distributions myself, and I’m definitely not really a fan of recommending one to a new user. Most of the solutions for problems that someone may search for on the internet are going to assume that you are not using an immutable distribution and will not help that user what-so-ever. I also really don’t want to have to teach someone who is already worried about moving to Linux about things like distrobox, Flatpak sandbox permissions, why they can’t modify certain files, etc. I think it’s counter productive, and will just play into the “Linux nerds need to run 500 commands just to install 1 app in their distrobox container and modify their Flatpak permissions so they can mount their external drive with their games on it in Steam” mindset. I just want to give them something that works, and will work most similarly to what they are used to. Honestly, this is why I’ve strayed away from Linux in general over time and went back to NetBSD, I want my things to just work, I want it to be simple, and I don’t personally have brand new hardware so all the modern amenities that Linux offers to me don’t entice me.
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Those should all be good in any popular distro.
Check people’s distro recs out on distrosea and pick the one whose out of the box experience you like the best. I like Mint (cinnamon).
I like Debian in general, Garuda might be pleasant for a Linux noob gamer, especially if you want to tell people you use arch.
I’m daily driving Bazzite. I couldn’t get VR to work on it properly. Couldn’t get my Silhoette machine to work either. I keep Windows quarantined on an SSD on the occasion I need it and every time I use it, it upsets me on a deep, primal level. Literally right now I’m resetting it cause, after an unrequested update, the start menu and a bunch of other things stopped working and I would rather reinstall the 3 programs I use than deal with it.
this’ll help with VR on linux https://lvra.gitlab.io/
Run Bazzite. The desktop version. It’ll give you a plug and play experience for gaming, emulation, and streaming.
Unsure about development though. Maybe other users can chime in on Bazzite’s limitations for godot development, if any.
bazzite has a developer mode you can switch to, which will install and set-up a bunch of tools for you. There are also simple commands you can run from the terminal, they make it easy. Just open a terminal and read the prompt and follow the directions to launch a script and choose what tweaks you want.
Bluefin and Aurora are related to bazzite but are more stable, or have more stable versions available, and are developer focused. The biggest difference is that game software like steam isn’t layered in, but installed via flatpak, which may cause issues with VR.
Depending on what you are doing you should be familiar with or want to learn how to use a containerized development environment.
For me it’s music production and development. Development isn’t hard to move over but IIRC Renoise and FL Studio aren’t friendly with Linux. Actually I don’t know if any of the major DAWs run on nix.
reaper has native linux support
I thought renoise has a linux version that works, but you might have issues getting all vst’s to work properly. there are compatibility programs like carla that should help.
you can get fl studio running with wine/bottles but it would be better if there were native versions.
Compatibility layers always make things a little unstable. With proton it’s gotten significantly better, but that doesn’t always translate to audio apps. The only way to know if it will work is to set everything up and test it.
If you ever tried to mess with audio on linux in the past, it’s gotten a whole lot easier with pipewire. There are very few config issues now.
for the VR stuff: https://lvra.gitlab.io/
my daily driver bazzite linux box that i install wack shit on to try and VM old adobe warez + play games and tweak the UI all the time with kooky ideas… current uptime is 34 days.
and 34 days ago there was a power outage. i haven’t had to reboot since who knows when.
i thought i might have to last night when my panel became unresponsive, but i just had to reload the desktop environment which took maybe 10 seconds?
windoze suxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I really just need to install Linux already
Just nuke my Win10 install and start fresh
I fucking love AI
Lmaooo I was wondering why I couldn’t use my mouse/kb in winRE to get to BIOS. The main reason I still use windows on that one PC is because Linux support for VR and the many essential tools that the community has made is spotty.
Beasters(BSD users) win again!
very glad I only have to interact with winshit for deving at work, although I realise if I was into modern AAA gaming it would be different luckily I only really play OSRS
