I'm sure for Windows Pro this isn't accurate. There's no way a business could legally permit this, it's a massive risk.
It's probably just with Windows Home, and I'm sure O&O Shutup already handles it.
A Pro license is worth it just for Group Policy, which provides control over such things.
Do you know this for a fact or are you speculating?
Going by the phrasing I'd say educated guess. I for one agree, it sounds like a massive liability when you have e.g. data protection laws to think about
A Pro license is worth it just for Group Policy, which provides control over such things.
I'm currently able to buy Pro Win 11 licenses at a very expensive $7 LMAO
I used to say just pirate windows, but being cheaper than lunch meh. On top of that these licenses are just resold volume licenses so MS doesn't even get the money directly from me so ehhhh
Where are you getting them for $7? I've seen them for like $30 but I haven't seen sub $25 in years.
I don't know any business that uses Windows 11.
You must not know a lot of businesses then. My company is on Win11 and most admin friends I’ve talked fo their company is on Win11
Why don't they just make a proper OS without all that shit.
Because it's not about making a proper OS. The shit is the point.
They do and it's hard to acquire legitimately. Windows 11 IoT LTSC. Definitely don't waste your time looking for it in massgravedotdev.
MS expects return of investment for new Windows features. Don't ask me why.
Imagine if they invested $0 in this new feature. They could've had an infinite ROI.
Man I'd really like to keep a windows machine around for just for easy gaming but at this point it's too much of a liability.
They said the same shit about Edge, I'm still able to rip edge out kicking and screaming and SURPRISE nothing of value is ever lost lol
If you need Windows do yourself a favor and during the installation process choose a European country when it asks what language pack your want to use. I always used English (UK) even though I don't live in the UK and never had to deal with the bullshit people keep talking about.
What happens if you change it to the US after installation?
No need to, keep it as is and adjust your regional settings to your liking.
I'll take HIPPA violations for 1000.
It's crazy that no one actually research this at all before getting outraged.
Recall has always been exclusive to "Copilot+ PCs" which are ARM computers with a Snapdragon X series processor.
This won't affect normal computers at all.
System requirements for Recall
Your PC needs the following minimum system requirements for Recall:
A Copilot+ PC 16 GB RAM 8 logical processors 256 GB storage capacity To enable Recall, you’ll need at least 50 GB of storage space free Saving screenshots automatically pauses once the device has less than 25 GB of storage spaceBeyond that, this is all speculation based off a single bugfix where they got rid of the ability to uninstall Copilot from the Features menu.
Huge assumptions that it won't be able to be disabled in plenty of other ways. Legally they cannot force this enabled on all devices due to the wide variety of information protection laws the world over.
Ah so it's totally okay for them to spy on people with particular types of computers. So obvious!
Just fill up your disk, problem solved!! \s
Modders enabled Recall on non compliant ARM PCs with no AI hardware whatsoever.
Incidentally I just installed a new laptop that came with windows yesterday and damn, windows 11 sucks.
First you have to find a workaround to install without a MS account, then the default Bing search tells you to install Opera when you search for Firefox, I can't find any settings (everything is a regedit hack now) and then I found a debloat script that claims it disabled Recall. So yeah it can be disabled (for now).
Take advantage of the terminal brother you won't regret it
And on top of all this the UI feels sluggish. I still have Win11 on my laptop, as it came installed with it and I just partitioned some of the drive for linux. Was sometimes easier do do stuff on Win for Uni, esp. with very specialized software. Everytime I logged in to Win I wanted to kill the UI.
Can't wait to see all the hilarious fuck-ups this bullshit will cause.
What are the chances that I, a not particularly tech savvy person, go to download mint and end up bricking my computer?
Honestly, my computer is an absolute bottom of the barrel $200 Dell laptop right now, so it wouldn't be that big of a deal, but I'd hate to fuck it up, get a better computer, and fuck that up too.
If you're capable of booting from a flash drive you're capable of installing Mint.
If you want to keep your Windows environment around for emergencies, you might need to learn a little bit about how to partition a disk, which is about 15 minutes of learning and 5 minutes of doing. Or if you have a second hard drive installed that you want to devote to Linux you don't even need to do the partitioning.
Everyone here is saying it’s easy but nobody is mention that if you have any sort of unforeseen problem it can be a huge headache to fix. For example, let’s say your touchpad doesn’t work correctly. Resolving driver issues with Linux can very easily overwhelm anyone who isn’t tech-savvy and now you’ve put yourself in a situation where you want to reinstall Windows and have to figure that out next.
Definitely look into using Rufus to create a flash drive with Mint, let your laptop boot from it, and then just demo it for a few weeks. It’ll run slower than actually installing it to your computer but at least you’ll get a sense for if you actually want to pull the trigger or not (and if you don’t, unplug the drive and you’re back to booting your Windows environment with no harm done.)
Also on a quick note(I am saying that because that is what a lot of people hate on linux), download and try libre office before you change to see what you lose if you switch to libre office and if libre office did not work out for you, try only office and WPS office(both are available on linux) to see what is the best for you before you switch.
I personally use WPS office on linux with internet access turned off for it.
If you can follow the instructions on the install site, you should be fine (especially if you don't try to dual boot): https://linuxmint-installation-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/burn.html
Fellow non-techy here. I've been on Linux for years, only leaving Windows for one specific program (that I finally found a way of using on Linux). It's easy. Obviously the techy people can explain any risks better, but if you want to dual boot, or even nuke windows, it's super easy. Etch it to a flash drive, there are a million YouTube videos on how, and boot from the USB. There's a GUI wizard that walks you through everything. Mint is great, and the UI is familiar to windows users. I prefer Fedora, because I wanted a change from Windows, and it's fun and intuitive to use GNOME for me. The Linux of today isn't difficult to use. In fact, unless you go with something like Gentoo, you'll probably never have to open terminal if all you do is web based stuff. It's pretty freaking sweet. If you go with anything that uses GNOME as the DE look up extensions. They make it better and more customizable.
Biggest thing, just back everything up you might want to keep. I got nextcloud through hertzner. 15 bucks a month for 5 TB of storage. Backed up both laptops, my phone, my tablet, and have my brother, my mom, my sister in law and my friend on there, too. It's worth doing if you're concerned about losing important documents or photos
You already got some good replies, but I still have something to add:
It is extremely unlikely you will permanently brick your laptop. The realistically worst thing to happen is that you end up without any working OS, be it Windows or Linux. If you can get help you will be able to install Windows again (not that hard though to do by yourself).
Second thing is that Linux installers usually come with a live environment. That means that your windows installation is absolutely safe while Mint runs from your USB. You can then do some browsing or play around with Mint before deciding to install it permanently.
I'd recommend keeping all your important files on a separate disk/partition. It makes it easier and quicker for back ups and system restoration.
So even if you fuck up bad (which IMO is pretty hard to do), you can just nuke the OS and your personal files are fine.
Not very large, download it, put it on usb with rufus(choose the right Disk, not you C:, ) Start from USB and test without making changes, if the laptop is super New stuff may not work yet on Mint
Its very unlikely you would brick the computer in the sense of not being repairable. Most likely mistake would be accidentally wiping everything that's on the laptop currently. As always, backup your important files to an external device first just in case.
For the best outcome, buy 2 USB sticks and then burn windows enterprise iot From massgrave on one of them and linux mint on the other( I recommend Opensuse tumbleweed instead, but you are free to choose), this way even if your linux installation got fucked up, you could still install windows again and resume your work.
There isn't that big of a risk that it breaks completely. If the installation isn't to your liking you can still go and reinstall windows
It's pretty unlikely these days. You can try it on a bootable usb stick first, to make sure the hardware is ok with it. Ubuntu has more support for things like non-free drivers and such.
Techy person, you'd really have to fuck up that install bad to brick your computer. Like, I think the worst you could do might just be breaking your install drive and that would probaby just be regular hardware failure.
I switched to Linux (mint). It kind of sucked getting it set up but at least I don't have to deal with Microsoft much anymore.
I’ll probably be doing the same. I expect a clean computer to work moderately well, but I’m dreading setting up a dual boot so I can spend some time transitioning, especially trying to keep track of where games are installed.
If you use mint and it won't boot from the live USB stick a second time, you may have to rename a file on the USB drive.
If it hangs on the last step of the installer, I don't know how to fix that but the previous LTS version of mint worked fine.
Those were the two biggest hurdles I faced. Good luck.
Speaking as someone who has recently gone through this headache: if you're fortunate enough to have your games on their own partition, you will probably want to migrate said partition over to a Linux filesystem (ext4, btrfs, etc.) sooner rather than later. Particularly for Steam games - it's possible to mount NTFS partitions on Linux and you might even be able to get the partition to mount as read/write somewhat reliably, but getting Steam on Linux to parse those directories and read the installed games is.. ... well, it isn't worth it, frankly. Easier to just bite the bullet and be done with it.
That was the most difficult part of transitioning to Linux for me, though. Most everything else either worked out of the box or was a breeze to set up. Even the printer - go figure. Anyway. You got this!
I use the N version of windows, which is what they sell in the eu. I doubt copilot will ever be forcefully installed on my pc.
Surely there's GDPR and other issues here. How are they allowed do this with very sensitive, private data on machines.
The data never leaves the computer. Also this only applies to Copilot+ PCs which only the Snapdragon Elite is. No word if it will come to x86
I guess more linux market share then?
where meme?
It's easy enough to disable or change the settings to exclude apps. Not that it should be enabled by default, but it is part of initial account setup too.
Until it's "accidentally" turned back on during an update. Whoops.
Can we do select all?
you need an NPU for that, am i right?
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not, but in case not, no. The preview was ran just fine without an NPU. Source
Officially you do need one. But there might be a way to bypass that like with the TPM requirement.
Laughs in penguin
What is the best OS for touch screens?
You might want to be more specific than that... but im running Debian on a Microsoft Surface and It's great. You will need to follow a tutorial on how to install it though. It's a bit more technical than your average Linux installation
You will be asked during the upgrade to 11H2 if you want to enable recall. Sure it is good to ask before enabling it but it is so unwanted feature so it is not even worth the question, just have it disabled.
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Is this "feature" coming to the LTSC version of windows?
Eventually probably, once the customers they make LTSC have forgotten about it.
W11 IoT LTSC non subscription specifically can't even install these AI "features."
Cries in needs a computer with Windows on it to use PaintTool SAI
Try Ameliorated!
