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.
and they say linux is complicated.
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.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.
There is no way they have an option named TurnOffWindowsCopilot that turns off the Windows Copilot
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On the one hand this is getting old, we know MS shit the bed and it’s gonna be MS copilot featuring Windows soon.
On the other,… man is this a spectacular way to run a company into the ground 🤣
Ok, we could put this into the category of W8 with its tile system. They try something new, it backfires, back to square one. (The menu button moves back to the lower left corner). But I dunno, despite there already being rumours an option to fully disable copilot “rolled out to administrators” soon.
I don’t think they’ll just try and sweep this one under the rug as quickly after all this disastrous doubling down.
I’m sorry, is this an AI Generated keyboard…?
Not saying it isn’t, but if the reason why you’re saying that is because of the z/y key, I know one of the EU layouts swaps it. German I think?
Yes, a German keyboard has swapped the letter Z and Y (and some other differences). Maybe this is a keyboard that shows both so more people can use it.
I thought the user backlash would be enough to correct MS’s course (like with Win 8) but their leadership has this pissbrained belief that people will change their mind or just accept this bullshit as inevitable. This is going to be a fucking disaster for them that they’ll never truly recover from.
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.
I hope my company will switch to something different. Microsoft ist getting worse and worse
Give me LTSC or give me death!
Can I interest you in this beautiful Linux distribution?
Bazzite, all night. I’ll fortune to transition towards Linux but I still need the sad, commercial and technical predictability of Windows for some time longer.
I think I am really going enjoy this new feature in Windows. Enjoy laughing at Microsoft’s absurdity while using the latest new and actually useful features in Mint 22.3, that is.
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.
Jokes on them i replaced explorer with Directory Opus years ago… The only piece of software i miss on linux its perfect
I used to have that on the Amiga.
KDE Dolphin works on Windows for those who really need Windows. Otherwise I recommend simplified Arch-based distros, but Mint is also good.
Does it? I know KDE used to make a Windows version back in the day, but I didn’t know that was still in development.
Lot of KDE apps are also on Windows, most famously Krita (art program that is on par with pqid proprietary offerings), but the KDE suite contains so many bangers like KATE (text editor faster than VSCode, with plugin support).
I knew that the “standard” KDE apps have windows versions, but Dolphin?
Edit: Looks like the newest version of Dolphin for Windows is from the development branch and was made in 2022.
I’m trying to think of a time when I thought “oh, if only I had an IA assistant in my file manager”…
Well you see, if you thought windows search was bad at finding files in the folder you already had opened when you starting searching for them before…
I have to say it’s probably the only way you’ll ever get any kind of bulk rename out of a Microsoft OS.
