Oh they’re making me addicted alright. I can’t stop installing Linux on things. Its like a new vice for my devices
Today i tried to unbind the windows key from a computer because it was getting annoying. Tutorials pointed to the registry. I found nothing but ended up understanding why some keyboards directly have locks on that stupid key
I can’t fault them for this business plan. It has worked for the opioid business professionals time and time again, for centuries!
Out of touch execs still chasing metrics instead of focusing on quality. Their desperation betrays the awareness that an end is near.
Sadly, the strategy tends to work. Just like slop and clickbait by any sane world should not be rewarded, it rakes it in for the people who do it.
In the times we live , where sociopath billionares seem to reign, this is no surprising
We’re going to MAKE people ADDICTED by
making a REALLY Good Product!SOLVING annoying Problems!TREATING Customers respectfully!FORCING ourselves Onto people like Donald Trump on Little Girls!Have they tried making it better, I feel like I’m more likely to become addicted to it if it was good.
Scout will only be available for MS 365 customers.
Phew!
Explains why they want you to think it’s also a person.
Ha ha ha, no Microslop !
Ah yes, Cortana and Copilot both suck, but surely third time’s the charm. And when Scout is, inevitably, unpopular as well? We’ll see what they call number four.
You forgot clippy, but everyone forgets about clippy unless it’s in this exact context. Or it’s Norfolk wizard game.
I can’t believe I forgot Clippy…
Miss you, Tay
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What about Microsoft Bob? Doesn’t that count as their first attempt?
Clippy was basically an upgraded Bob kinda like how the old Jeep Cherokees are just upgraded Jeep Wagoneers.
Yeah “but not as annoying” lol. No idea what you mean about jeeps: I’m in the UK, and not a car enthusiast either.
The Cherokee and Wagoneer aren’t distinguishable at first glance, the Cherokee was just an upgraded Wagoneer. That was my point Clippy was just an upgraded Bob with new coat of paint.
Is there any fundamental difference between Copilot and Scout, or is it just a straight up rebranding?
My impression is that scout is specifically going to be an agentic ai. Agentic ai platforms are supposedly a little more competent than chatbots, but still subject to the same llm chicanery and enormous energy usage.
It’s hard to compare against copilot because MS has called a ton of distinct things copilot (see the diagram below).
I really hate that out of all careers, it’s developers.
You forgot they called it Bing in the middle too
Cortana was actually really good on Windows Phone but they dumbed it down and added all sort of crap to it by the time it was integrated onto the desktop. They could’ve doubled down on whatads it good but nope.
@pycorax I second this, Windows Phone 8.1/10 was a godsend in a world of Android/iPhone duopoly (even if made by Microslop) and Cortana was smart enough to almost do everything you could ask of it (unlike the “couldn’t understand what you said” or “calling Superfun New Toy From China” instead of “Super from Building A” that “AI” assistants of its time said).
@finalarbiter
“A little sign in here, a touch of wifi there…”
That’s all I know of Cortana.
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That’s Mambo No. 6
Not sure why that had to come on automatically at maximum volume every time, but the number of times I’ve finished backing up and re-imaging a computer at 3 AM, on to have her start hollering at the exact moment my head hits the pillow, is too damn many
My non Linux savvy spouse is currently dual booting Linux Mint because Windows has become so frustrating to use.
Mint isn’t perfect. We’ve run into a few bugs and shortcomings. But there’s a big difference between dealing with genuine issues in an OS and using one that feels actively hostile and designed to exploit the user.
If both experiences can be frustrating, why choose the one that’s frustrating by design (unless you absolutely have to) ?
I’ve used Linux for a decade now and windows is so much more buggy and shortcoming. Including new bugs.
Most of my music software doesn’t function correctly on Linux :(
You probably know this already, but Reaper is fully Linux compatible, it’s not FL, so you’ll have to adapt, but it is great
I’ll have to adapt and buy $1,000 in third party VSTs to not have as good of a mixing/mastering solution as what’s built into FL :(
What software
FL studio along with a whole pile of third party VSTs, plus lots of weird audio routings and everything in 96kHz.
Bitwig is neat, but I’d have to buy like $1500 in third party VSTs to do what I do in FL.
Personally I’ve used FL with Bottles on Fedora with terra-wine-staging package and everything except webviews (FL cloud which I don’t use anyway) works perfecly (and cpu usage is higher than on windows)
I really wish they’d had the balls and/or the legal power to keep calling it FruityLoops.
I mean it’s massively outgrown the original looper app it used to be. It’s top tier for DAW choices now.
You should consider a VM
How much worse is the latency going to get
IDK
If it’s agentic it’s going to burn through tokens even faster, so what’s their business model?
Yeah, we know
Instead they made me addicted to Linux.
Yeah every time I get on my laptop it’s a little more unrecognisable and unusable to me. Will be getting in Linux as soon as I get a chance.
What’s stopping you so far?
Time more than anything, im only on it about 2 hours once a month
A good place to start, if what you do for those two hours a month is just a browser and such, is a live USB with Linux mint (or something like that) and then there is no commitment until you are ready.
SSDs costing $300 for me. For some reason my current drives refuse to partition. I got an old laptop on it, but it barely works regardless of what OS is on it.
$300? I found a bunch on Amazon just now for under $30.
Surely not for 1 TB though. I want to stay on Linux for the most part and save my stuff there.
Why not cheap SSD for OS and then 1-2 TB HDD for storage?
I only have 3 hard drive slots and they are for gaming.
Older refurbished Thinkpads are a good and cheap way to go. They save a ton of compatibility headaches which only eat time. Linux is very economical on hardware resources. Or, just use an old pc. I work as a programmer and my main PC is 15 years old now.
I’ve strongly enjoyed cachyOS. Cue downvotes for this, but I installed ClaudeCode (any other cli would work fine too like opencode etc) and gave it a persistent memory as an OS helper of sorts when I get stuck.
Probably moronic to quit windows over AI integration and then set up Linux with the exact same vision just in a completely custom way.
I’ve just started messing around with cachy after using mint for a month and a bit, honestly kinda liking it with KDE over mint now.
