Microsoft’s big Windows 11 update drops on September 26 with Copilot AI baked in

Oh, another system wide crapware that nobody is going to use.

can I move the taskbar now to another, non-main, screen? If not fuck off with your AI nonsense.

Still chasing the dream of mainstream Clippy acceptance.

I see you are trying to open the terminal, would you like me to:

A: break your knees

B: kill your entire family

"a new volume mixer" - please just be an interface change and nothing dramatic 👀

Going off of Dave Plummer's video, looks like copilot is kind of a wash. It has the potential to do some neat stuff on desktop, but its crappily shoehorned into the OS instead.

Gonna get downvoted to crap for this, but what the hell - hi, it's me, I'm that one guy who actually loves Windows a little more with every release. I'm continually surprised by the good stuff that's baked into the OS now (e.g. Much better multi-monitor support) and how the real power users can do a whole load more besides with Powertoys (key remapping!) - It's really encouraging to see that I need fewer and fewer specialist programs to get Windows to work just how I want.

I'm not wildly sold on AI being baked into the OS, but what the heck - Microsoft have earned their goodwill from me in recent years. I'll play around with it with interest.

Can we just ungroup the damned Taskbar already? I don't understand why they are being so stubborn on this.

I actually spoke with one of the people on the team for this the other week.

They have significant money problems. Copilot is expensive as crap to run, and this is about to make the situation 10x worse.

(Also this feature was completely broken a few weeks ago, so I'd be surprised if it launches without a hitch)

Who would even create rar archives these days, when there is 7zip?

Man fuck that shit.

a native RAR app

It better come with a "Trial Expired" pop-up or I am not using it

If I look at what Windows 11 is, its features and the new features, I honestly can’t work out who Microsoft’s target market is anymore.

With the pricing for AI, I can’t even work out which enterprises would consume it.

This type of shit is why i jumped to linux mint recently. Who the hell removed the right click menu options. I'm sure it will be back as a feature.

Like baking a turd into a mud cookie.

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The only feature I'm looking forward to is the ability to ungroup multiple instances of the same program in the talk bar. That feature was around forever but for some reason they disabled it in Windows 11.

How do I install the nVidia drivers on Linux? I asking in case I decide to finally switch (found some Linux DAW, now all is happy, likely will go with Ubuntu + KDE).

Clippy on steroids.

Lol nope. Definitely sticking with 10 for the foreseeable future.

Did they not try to bake in a digital assistant in Windows previously?

Woah that's crazy, anyways my Arch updates just dropped today, and continue to drop like hourly.

As they say, It's all about choice. I'm not overly enamoured byIthe additional features, other than the security and similar uodates. Less keen on the bakes in AI. I'll see how we get on, but thinking about my last windows machine also migrating to Debian.

Start11 by Stardock does this and more, its not FOSS, but is cheap (if you go the legal route). There is also Winhawk, which is FOSS, though is a little less intuitive.

AI isn’t the only game in town, as this is also a traditional OS update with the usual quality of life improvements. There’s finally native support for RAR and 7-zip file formats, so you can get rid of those third-party archiving apps.

LMAO It just hit me that Windows STILL did not have native ways to do this. We've been using .rar for 30 years and for this whole time, Microsoft never released their own utility for opening zips until now. Wow.

EDIT: Mb. I meant to say the .rar files. I have corrected my comment. It's still ridiculous, though.

Can it ever be good if they are practically forcing you to use it? Smells like IE6 :/

haha, Windows

To give users access to an amalgamation of other's works? Or to give MS access to the user's works?