Fuck AI

I dare them to pull it through and not back down. It will finally be the year of the Linux desktop known to us in hindsight.

Why is this sub spreading AI slop?

The entire article is based on rumors, clickbait and hallucinations.

“Fully modular” reads to me as “1 step away from returning to the terminal-mainframe” business model.

Is it April 1 already?

For all the people on here quick to mock others for being gullible enough to fall for AI-generated slop, this is embarrassing.

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/no-an-ai-focused-windows-12-is-not-coming-this-year-false-report-gets-the-facts-completely-wrong

April Fools?

Not doing a subscription based OS.

Just throwing that out there.

"Fully modular" as 'It can run on a toaster" or as "For access to the file manager, subscribe to premium"?

Absofuckinglutely not.

And I say this as a dedicated Windows user who spent a year on Ubuntu Linux a decade ago and hated it. Windows does this, and sign me up for penguin lessons.

I’m skeptical about this seeing as there are also articles pointing out that this is fake news.

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/no-an-ai-focused-windows-12-is-not-coming-this-year-false-report-gets-the-facts-completely-wrong

Excellent. Finally the cycle of alternating good and bad versions of Windows will be broken. It'll just be bad versions from here on out.

So when they said "windows 10 will be the last windows", they were kinda right. Just not the way the imagined...

Hahahahaha, get fucked Microslop

Subscription-based. AI-focused.

Lol. No thanks.

Windows 12? Well, I'm using Debian 13. 13 is a bigger number than 12; therefore, Debian is better than Windows.

Fun thing:

My laptop (from 2020) somehow skipped last year's update and only recently decided to update to the most recent Windows 11 release. And my first thought was "oh shit, is it going to install that Recall nonsense?" ...good news: not only is Recall not installed by default but the laptop is officially too shitty to run Recall. (...it's perfectly adequate for running everything else though!)

Which got me thinking:

Remember how mad everyone was when Windows 11 came out, requiring TPM 2.0, and how people were asked to buy new hardware?

Gee golly gosh, I hope Microsoft isn't seriously going to say "yeah, you're going to need to buy a new computer - so you can utilise all these awesome new AI features, you see." Because people just love buying new hardware. Again. In this economy.

Hey people are already leaving the OS for Linux, theres no need to advertise for Linux even more.

Finally the year of linux desktop!

I'm curious on what they mean by "fully modular". Coming from Linux I think I have a different definition of "fully modular" than they do.

Linux is right choice

continuing to up the hardware requirements and pricing people out of the market to satisfy features nobody cares about. brilliant strategy.

Wtf is a “fully-modular” OS

I know the Epstein files revealed that all the last Windows versions have been named after Microsoft leaderships' preferred rape victim ages but I still don't think I'm ready to switch to Linux.

Finally, an OS for me! My biggest complaint since the days of Windows 95 has been the lack of being able to add new features. I didn't really care what they are, but I just like the process of subscribing to additional features until I can max them all out.

And secondly, my next biggest gripe has been how hard it is to find AI. It's never at my fingertips. Now that it'll be integrated into the OS itself, I can finally use AI for everything! And if I can buy new hardware annually to allow me to resubscribe to all the latest features, while telling AI my shipping habits, I think it'll be perfect!

I can't wait to give Bill Gates money for this! I know he'll spend it on a good cause. Maybe two young Russian good causes! He's such a cool guy and not at all a billionaire creepo, thank goodness!

Sounds like a huge sack of shit

This is going to cement their status as the most dominant software company for a decade, or a crash so catastrophic entire economics semesters will be dedicated to its lessons.

I don't know if anyone else saw this, but apparently Windows Insider reports that this is all speculation, and that MSoft had committed to rolling back AI features, and Windows 12 has been postponed until 11 is fixed.

Meanwhile, 26H2, set to release later this year is reported to have CoPilot integrated into file explorer. Not really sure who to believe, but with MSlop's behavior lately, I'm leaning toward being more disappointed than I initially expect.

Full functionality is said to require a dedicated NPU with at least 40 TOPS of computing power.

Because hardware is getting cheaper by the day, especially RAM and SSDs, so I should be happy I get to rent a reviled, unwanted, AI-crammed OS from Microslop to put on my not-at-all expensive new machine I have to buy just to run it, that will package all my data up and send it home on the regular, via bandwidth I also pay for, to use it to train their AI for free, along with every other byte of private data they're stealing around the world as fast as they can get their hands on it. But wait, I'm not happy enough! Because then Microslop also gets to sell that same private, personally-generated data along with geolocation and wifi triangulation and every other privacy-obliterating feature they can cram in with it to advertisers for ad targeting wherever I go, as well as to my own hostile government as surveillance should I happen to be brown, not cis-het, and/or suspected of engaging in thoughtcrime. AND there's even a bonus! My subscription fees, as well as my data sold every which way they can flog it to others of the Epstein class, will very likely fund Microslop's direct involvement in genocide, just as it has done in Gaza and elsewhere. Win/win all around!

Yeah, no. Shitty company, shitty product, enshittifying the world one PC at a time. Fuck that.