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Microsoft is making every Windows 11 PC an AI PC (blogs.windows.com)
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[–] 226 points 1 year ago (30 children)

Microsoft is doing more for Linux adoption than anyone else ever has lol

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  • [–] 64 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Valve with Steamdeck and Proton development: “Am I a joke to you?”

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    They are helping, yes, but windows 11 is a driving force like I've never seen.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    It's only really viable though, because of Steam and Proton

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    Not everything is vidjagames

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    No, but those two things have been such a massive driver for Linux adoption, that it isn't really relevant.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I'm not trying to belittle the contribution of Valve or Proton or anything, completely agree it's a massive contributor. There's also a lot of work done by a lot of people to get us to that point (and tbh I flipped a long time ago and did more console gaming, so I kinda see it from the opposite perspective - proton has brought back PC gaming for me rather than allowing me to break free of windows.)

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Steam took the cap off the toothpaste tube.
    Microsoft is giving the toothpaste tube a good squeeze!

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    So many people just immediately gave into ChatGPT, I doubt Microsoft’s actions will do that much damage. Besides, for anyone not using it it’s pretty easy to ignore. I don’t do a single thing on my PC that requires much beyond opening a game or Firefox so I don’t feel the pressure to leave at the moment.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Ironically, one of the things that I'm moving to Linux for is the gaming performance boost that I've heard some people report due to the lack of Windows bloat and telemetry running in the background all the time.

    Bazzite, the Linux version I keep seeing people recommend for gaming and people new to Linux has had a big boost in users in the past 6 weeks or so, apparently, that people are completely attributing to Microsoft.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I have said the same as well. Prior to them dropping the fat grumpy that is 11, I was all in on the windows ecosystem for myself. I heavily modified it of course so it didn't have a bunch of the nonsense but overall, the experience was good. But then they started warping 10, and then they came out with 11 which was massive garbage at release and now is worse garbage years down the road. And with that AI outlook, I'm full on bailing from everything.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    MS has to justify thier cost of spending so much money on AI datacenters, they need everyone to buy it to offset the unprofitable cost of AI usage. thats why they are so desperate and suddenly trying to force W11 down peoples throat.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    And Mac.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    Yes definitely, but mentioning anything good about Apple on Lemmy gets you stitches…

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    There isnt anything good.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I've got two friends that are right in the edge of trying. One has a spare thin client that he wants to PoC with and was asking for distros and how to install. The other was thinking of jumping in the deep end with Arch, and I've warned him, but the wiki is solid, he's not dumb, and Arch install is better than it ever has been.

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