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Damnit, I came in here to post:

And the wind... whispers... Linux

As much as i agree, the vast majority of people will just continue using what they had before, and still complain about how nothing works

That depends; do you mean good for the user, or good for the company? 😉

I don't really like it, but it can defintly be used as a dumb assistant. E.g. if you want to write an email or a small script to analyze some data, you can tell it what you need, specify the details, take the results, correct them and then use the results. You still have to do much of the work, but if you do it correctly you'll save time. BUT: It'll save all of that. Don't do this with sensitive data and don't do this for work without official permission of the employer.

Nah, Linux is too mainstream, its more like a soft drug.

If you want the REAL GOOD STUFF you need to daily drive 9Front.

Only if you use Arch btw.

Hello and welcome to the Linux club! Remember to always mention Linux as your OS as much as you can and add "btw".

I run Arch btw.

Ultimately, most people stay with the default option, that's why they have to be aggressive. Look at the amount of screenshots even in advanced PC communities with ugly useless search bar enabled, which is taking 1/3 of the taskbar. I'm not even speaking about casual users who have no idea that it can be disabled.

How else could they ever claim the millions in "adoption" of their products?

It would be the year of Linux on desktop tomorrow if ever known brand of PC came with it preinstalled

Copilot likes you back! Actually it has fallen in love with you. Now it downloads automatically wherever you go. Even in the shower when you're pretending to not touch yourself. Oh it knows everything! C'mon think about purchasing someth...too late! It's already delivered! Pilot cancelled your meeting with Stacy Fredrickson. It's jealous of her. But don't worry because pilot can have any boob size you prefer. In fact pilot is any ethnicity you are attracted to and is waiting for you in bed right now. Just pick up the various items from the porch to make a sensitive feedback gizmo so you can pilot can be together foreve...30 years or so per the contract. Anyway, Microsoft is proud to present pilot. Pilot would like you to please call her Jessica. And if you use your last name with her, she will get you optimized seating and personalized flight paths.

Yes you can game on Linux. Lookup your games on ProtonDB to see if they are all compatible. Most games run fine unless they have kernel level anticheat that stops them from running. On Steam, you just have to enable Proton and windows games will install normally.

Ppl tend to sugarcoat Linux to new users, so let me make a reality check: gaming is possible on Linux, but in a limited sense, and it might cost time and sanity.

Some games work natively, some need a workaround, some require you to craft your own solution, and some straight up won't.

The percentages shift, where there's slightly more games working natively or requiring a basic workaround, but the baseline is the same.

Laptops are harder because they rely on more proprietary hardware and need more advanced power management.

Gaming is mostly respectable. The biggest exception is multiplayer games deliberately blocking Linux because it doesn't allow them to install their rootkit anticheat.

I use nobara, which has some nvidia focused tweaks automatically handled for you, and has largely been pretty smooth. However, you should know that there's a real possibility of needing to roll back, drop to the command line, or make some other tweak to resolve driver issues. It's not a regular occurrence (and both AMD and Nvidia have also borked windows releases), but maintainers dealing with Nvjdia have been frustrated with some of their decisions in the past and still have to jump through hoops sometimes. Some distros more targeted at casual users do a decent job of abstracting it away though.

May as well add it to the .reg file you cart around on your thumb drive. I have one that already disables all the Windows "consumer features" and turns off all the lock screen nags, Cortana (this is no longer relevant, though), etc.

It's in:

HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsCopilot

And also:

HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsCopilot

In both locations, create a DWORD "TurnOffWindowsCopilot" and set it to 1. Reboot.