Why is this sub spreading AI slop?

The entire article is based on rumors, clickbait and hallucinations.

I dare them to pull it through and not back down. It will finally be the year of the Linux desktop known to us in hindsight.

“Fully modular” reads to me as “1 step away from returning to the terminal-mainframe” business model.

Is it April 1 already?

For all the people on here quick to mock others for being gullible enough to fall for AI-generated slop, this is embarrassing.

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/no-an-ai-focused-windows-12-is-not-coming-this-year-false-report-gets-the-facts-completely-wrong

April Fools?

Not doing a subscription based OS.

Just throwing that out there.

"Fully modular" as 'It can run on a toaster" or as "For access to the file manager, subscribe to premium"?

Absofuckinglutely not.

And I say this as a dedicated Windows user who spent a year on Ubuntu Linux a decade ago and hated it. Windows does this, and sign me up for penguin lessons.

Excellent. Finally the cycle of alternating good and bad versions of Windows will be broken. It'll just be bad versions from here on out.

Subscription-based. AI-focused.

Lol. No thanks.

I’m skeptical about this seeing as there are also articles pointing out that this is fake news.

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/no-an-ai-focused-windows-12-is-not-coming-this-year-false-report-gets-the-facts-completely-wrong

So when they said "windows 10 will be the last windows", they were kinda right. Just not the way the imagined...

Windows 12? Well, I'm using Debian 13. 13 is a bigger number than 12; therefore, Debian is better than Windows.

Hahahahaha, get fucked Microslop

Fun thing:

My laptop (from 2020) somehow skipped last year's update and only recently decided to update to the most recent Windows 11 release. And my first thought was "oh shit, is it going to install that Recall nonsense?" ...good news: not only is Recall not installed by default but the laptop is officially too shitty to run Recall. (...it's perfectly adequate for running everything else though!)

Which got me thinking:

Remember how mad everyone was when Windows 11 came out, requiring TPM 2.0, and how people were asked to buy new hardware?

Gee golly gosh, I hope Microsoft isn't seriously going to say "yeah, you're going to need to buy a new computer - so you can utilise all these awesome new AI features, you see." Because people just love buying new hardware. Again. In this economy.

Hey people are already leaving the OS for Linux, theres no need to advertise for Linux even more.

Linux is right choice

Finally the year of linux desktop!

continuing to up the hardware requirements and pricing people out of the market to satisfy features nobody cares about. brilliant strategy.

I know the Epstein files revealed that all the last Windows versions have been named after Microsoft leaderships' preferred rape victim ages but I still don't think I'm ready to switch to Linux.

I'm curious on what they mean by "fully modular". Coming from Linux I think I have a different definition of "fully modular" than they do.

Wtf is a “fully-modular” OS

Sounds like a huge sack of shit

This is going to cement their status as the most dominant software company for a decade, or a crash so catastrophic entire economics semesters will be dedicated to its lessons.

Businesses will buy this.

Hell, they'll love it. Decision makers will jump on an "AI OS" faster than you can blink.

Some say businesses don't like extra costs, but that's not been my experience when it comes to Microsoft products and other software subscriptions.

...And that's what MS wants.

They couldn't care less about home users. They don't make them any money, not in the short term. MS wants business buyers sucked in, yesterday.

Full functionality is said to require a dedicated NPU with at least 40 TOPS of computing power.

Because hardware is getting cheaper by the day, especially RAM and SSDs, so I should be happy I get to rent a reviled, unwanted, AI-crammed OS from Microslop to put on my not-at-all expensive new machine I have to buy just to run it, that will package all my data up and send it home on the regular, via bandwidth I also pay for, to use it to train their AI for free, along with every other byte of private data they're stealing around the world as fast as they can get their hands on it. But wait, I'm not happy enough! Because then Microslop also gets to sell that same private, personally-generated data along with geolocation and wifi triangulation and every other privacy-obliterating feature they can cram in with it to advertisers for ad targeting wherever I go, as well as to my own hostile government as surveillance should I happen to be brown, not cis-het, and/or suspected of engaging in thoughtcrime. AND there's even a bonus! My subscription fees, as well as my data sold every which way they can flog it to others of the Epstein class, will very likely fund Microslop's direct involvement in genocide, just as it has done in Gaza and elsewhere. Win/win all around!

Yeah, no. Shitty company, shitty product, enshittifying the world one PC at a time. Fuck that.

Which entry-level Linux distribution do you recommend?

I don't know if anyone else saw this, but apparently Windows Insider reports that this is all speculation, and that MSoft had committed to rolling back AI features, and Windows 12 has been postponed until 11 is fixed.

Meanwhile, 26H2, set to release later this year is reported to have CoPilot integrated into file explorer. Not really sure who to believe, but with MSlop's behavior lately, I'm leaning toward being more disappointed than I initially expect.

Oh MicroSlop doesn’t want to exist anymore? 🤷🏻‍♀️

just move to Linux