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Anonymous wrote:Windows 11 is awful. I’ve been trying to de-Microsoft my life for a while now so I don’t have to “upgrade”. Plus I hate how intrusive MS has become in general, including with their crappy Edge browser. My Linux skills are weak but I managed to make my laptop dual boot and can do most of what I need with the Linux portion. I still need excel once in a while though which is annoying. I’m still struggling with certs in Linux too.

Oh no. Hate to hear that about 11. I never liked Edge and wouldn’t mind migrating away from MS. What do you do if someone sends a word or excel and you use Linux? Can you open it?

You can open them with LibreOffice but it’s not perfect. It works well enough to get by, mostly.

Anonymous wrote:Windows 11 is awful. I’ve been trying to de-Microsoft my life for a while now so I don’t have to “upgrade”. Plus I hate how intrusive MS has become in general, including with their crappy Edge browser. My Linux skills are weak but I managed to make my laptop dual boot and can do most of what I need with the Linux portion. I still need excel once in a while though which is annoying. I’m still struggling with certs in Linux too.

Oh no. Hate to hear that about 11. I never liked Edge and wouldn’t mind migrating away from MS. What do you do if someone sends a word or excel and you use Linux? Can you open it?

Anonymous wrote:Mint Linux is easier than Windows.

You know about LibreOffice which comes with Linux, right?

Yes I tried mint, it was pretty nice. Then I decided to switch to PopOS for some reason. I think it was based on something I read somewhere. It’s fine too, I quite like it. I use LibreOffice but I get weird errors with some spreadsheets. It works ok 95% of the time.

Mint Linux is easier than Windows.

You know about LibreOffice which comes with Linux, right?

Windows 11 is awful. I’ve been trying to de-Microsoft my life for a while now so I don’t have to “upgrade”. Plus I hate how intrusive MS has become in general, including with their crappy Edge browser. My Linux skills are weak but I managed to make my laptop dual boot and can do most of what I need with the Linux portion. I still need excel once in a while though which is annoying. I’m still struggling with certs in Linux too.

They dangle the product in the name of convenience and cuteness, in order to get more intrusion into your privacy.

Windows 11 is bad about that. All Apple and Google phones are bad about it now.

And AI is just basically a glorified search engine for now. Who knows what the future holds though, as it is getting spooky.

And the idiots at the DOD and GOV want to start using AI for defense systems. What could go wrong?? Judgement Day 2.0, but no hunky Arnold robots roaming around, just drones and dog bots.

Anonymous wrote:It's a buzzword for the marketing department. Intel and AMD are both building the instruction sets into their chips.

ARM chips for Apple MacOS/iOS and also ARM chips for Windows already have the instruction sets for AI.

Anonymous wrote:Useless maybe, but is it a hindrance or disadvantage in any way?

Loss of privacy for your data.

It's a buzzword for the marketing department. Intel and AMD are both building the instruction sets into their chips.

You're tilting at windmills. Just buy what's affordable to you and ignore the AI qualifiers.

I wouldn’t do it myself, but I tend to be mega cautious. If you need AI you can browse to it. I don’t see a need to have it built in. I don’t really know what built in means anyway. Is it just an app in the OS?

Useless maybe, but is it a hindrance or disadvantage in any way?

useless nonsense

Any opinions on this? I’m weighing buying one with vs one without. Tool could be useful but I’d like to know if any other functionality or privacy is impacted.