Microsoft bows to user demand and makes Windows 11's AI Actions optional

For now. Pray they don't alter the configuration any further.

~~automatically enabled once a week unless you navigate 5 screens deep into settings to turn them off~~ optional

Just like how I didn't want onedrive and they started making it the default for my documents when they would update. Drove me nuts. Their desire to take the personal out of personal computer has made me quit their ecosystem entirely.

Their OneDrive fuckery was the final straw for me to seriously consider switching to Linux.
They installed that shit without my consent, moved all my data onto it without my consent, despite me making a serious effort to undo all of that and keep my files local. THEN they had the gall to start warning me that I was running out of cloud storage and wouldn't be able to access my files if I didn't cough up the money for a subscription.
I finally managed to uninstall OneDrive and move my data to my local drive on my computer. The next update they reinstalled OneDrive and started spamming me with warnings again!
That's not a feature, that's not even a bug. That's a goddamn racket.
I'm now finally using Linux, for the first time in my not-so-short life.
They all want that. Sam Altman doesn’t want anyone to be able to buy a computer at all. Microsoft wants their cloud to know everything and do everything for everyone.
They want a subscription for it all. They want to takwnyoyr money month after month; for the “privilege” of having access to the things you need to actually manage life in our modern society.
They want to gatekeep survival, pick and choose the winners and take all the spoils.

Until the next update coming up this Tuesday

This is giving me Skype flashbacks. Every update reinstalled Skype and started Skype on start up.

User's always have the option of just not using Windows at all

If your company wants to pay for a computer or system for you to use Windows ... by all means, let the company pay for it all

But personally at home, if all you're going to do is watch Netflix and Youtube videos or read Wikipedia ... you can just use any basic Linux OS and do everything with that.

I use my Linux PC for a lot more than that too. Development, unreal engine, games, self hosted models, Emacs, media servers, making political memes, downloading Linux ISOs...the list goes on.

Too late. Already switched my system to Linux based. Goodbye, Windows.

@ghostlychonk @nemeski Good luck, I just switched back from Linux to Windows again.
- Enticed by the AI? 😂
  (ok but fr I am curious)

For now

They'll start forcing it again once they realize that only a minority of people are actually using it.

I would say it's concerns from large enterprise environments and government agency that don't what screenshots going to ms. Hopefully it will be open to home and pro and not just enterprise licensed versions of windows. Some of them should start looking at Linux as ring fences system.