ambient: we will do things without asking
pervasive: we want to be everywhere in your life
multi-modal: and by everywhere we mean FUCKING EVERYWHERE
this post was submitted on 14 Aug 2025
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Wtf kinda language are they speaking? None of those words should be used to describe an operating system.
They are vibe coding on a higher level bro.
Vibe coding must be the easiest job in the world.
"hey guys, you have complained about our latest software, and we heard you. Our next release will literally rip out your genitals and you definitely can't hide from it. 👍"
The company that's obsessed with putting popup tutorials in every fucking app and os function? Ambient my ass, stop lying.
Never been happier to be 100% on Linux.
Switch about 6 months ago, so happy to read these articles and shrug at them now. I gotta say it's weird there's only like 2.5% of us
Microsoft could literally make "gargle the balls of Bill Gates" a login requirement and the masses would still use Windows.
the way things are, things have to be completely unusable for the average user to care. people are still on reddit and twitter and facebook after all.
And most of all, even more invasive.
This guy's got to know pervasive would come off bad. Ambient bad too
So they're shutting down Windows 10 after telling everyone Windows 10 would be the last windows operating system, and at the same time as them doing that they're telling everybody that Windows 11 won't last very long either, and they're going to replace it with an AI nightmare.
Great marketing strategy.
I actually like this strategy, they're taking hope away from people who think Windows alternates between good versions and bad versions by announcing they're going to follow up a bad version with another bad version.
For some reason, corporate just can't stop itself from slaughtering its own golden cow.
God I love Linux ...
pervasive
What? Why would anyone want this?
That was my first thought, like what the fuck, I don't want my OS creeping on all my shit.
It won't matter, they will serve slop and most people will happily eat it.
A lack of even basic technology literacy hurts everyone so much. Most people have zero clue how their stuff works and zero interest to learn. Its easy to manipulate an ignorant population as we see again and again.
My favorite simple example is "do you shit with the door open? No? OK then privacy does have value--for all involved."
That is a lot of words to say it will be shittier and have more ads...
I would recomend Linux mint, but the main thing, get used to the openscource alternatives for your programs you use now while you are still using windows. By the time you swap to linux, you'll just have to get used to things like using "sudo apt install ****", appimages and snaps. Just some things that are different about linux. Also I wouldn't worry too much about trying to use a "gaming" distro. With some elbow grease pretty much any distro can look look and feel the same. All that matters is witch distro starts closest to what you want.
You don't even need to use the command line in Mint. There are at least 3 decent gui package managers that I can think of if the top of my head.
Most of these are great but I wanna point out some of the ones I don't agree with
- I've found that the elbow grease bit is gonna be a dealbreaker for 90% of Windows users even when they hate windows. I hate it but that's the truth
- Nvidia is much better than it used to be but it's still a PITA unless you use a gaming distro or one that comes with proprietary drivers preinstalled and properly configured (even for someone already very comfortable with linux). This is important if you want Wayland to work correctly or need optimus on laptops. Furthermore, and this is laptop-specific, KDE Plasma is gonna have low FPS on secondary monitors or drain tf out of your battery by defaulting to dedicated graphics if your config is wrong (and it's wrong by default on laptops)
- Switching desktop environments is a massive PITA so choosing the one you like first time is important.
Dear Microsoft.
Your operating system only exists because I have a need to click and type into business things in a quiet office.
Please stop fucking this up.
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