Doctors hate this one simple trick!

I seem to remember the feature was opt-in, right?

I'd check, but this hasn't made it to my Copilot+ PC, despite all the fuss.

I was wondering why my gaming PC didn't get the update yet... but then I remembered I installed the EU version of Windows on it... HA!

Watching Windows gets worse and worse is a lot more fun when you don't have to use it.
I use Mint btw.

So just putting as background one random nude pic do the job ?

I was hoping that they learned something from the time the protection on audio CDs was just that they were not read from the PC because the first track had invalid data (while it was ignored by a stereo) was defeat by a simple marker, which make the PC just ignore the track... I think I still have one of this CD somewhere...

I wish it were that easy. I'm pretty tech literate and I've had Linux installed on and off since the late 1990's. I'm running fedora desktop on a dual boot machine that also has windows 10. The PC will run windows 11 but just like everyone else I'm not excited to upgrade.

But I still have to hop over to windows to do things. I know it's a chicken and egg thing, but Linux just needs to get over the hump if ease of use and app availability.

Having to switch from. App1 to app1 that boat do say, CAD, is hard. It's a learning curve. And add that learning curve into also switching to Linux and it's overwhelming.

I actually got my dad on fedora, and he went all in and set it up, and worked quite diligently to get everything working for how he used his computer. He did this because his PC was fine but not windows 11 compatible. End the end there were just too many things that he struggled with and he broke down and bought a new PC that came with 11. One of the big issues he had was with documents. Syncing documents that he was editing.

He was OK relearning a new Libre Office but it was syncing it back to a Google drive or something that ultimately did not work for him. (I can't remember exactly what he was doing).

He ran with Fedora for a couple months before giving up

Now to find a registry edit for the same thing.

I highly recommend using an old laptop and keeping the windows machine. This allows you to fully use the linux laptop as your not booting back and forth. Further with these type of issues a "bleeding edge" distro like fedora is not ideal. My recommendation has always been zorin for a set it and forget it distro. Its an ubuntu spin that uses the stable release and tends to be a bit late even on that (which is most peoples complaint about it) but it is good at being stable and having everything you need out of box as well as emulating a basic windows feel.

It might do.

But I won't test it. I would have to start Windows 11.

Microsoft is bringing an update to Copilot Vision for Windows Insiders

Unless you’re in the windows insider program nobody should have this feature yet.

Microsoft style opt-in probably. You can choose between Yes and Later

And no matter what you choose, they'll silently enable it next month

Try this instead.

GitHub - ChrisTitusTech/winutil: Chris Titus Tech's Windows Utility - Install Programs, Tweaks, Fixes, and Updates

Chris Titus Tech's Windows Utility - Install Programs, Tweaks, Fixes, and Updates - ChrisTitusTech/winutil

GitHub (github.com)

Fun for us. Not so fun for people who have to use it.

Nah, the background isn’t visible at all times. Need one of those desktop strippers that would walk-in over the system tray and start dancing naked in the corner of your screen.

Not how it's worked with the rest of these features, for the record. I did get click-to-do, which is activated by default (but does nothing unless you trigger it manually). That's just an entry in their increasingly large wall of "stuff you don't want switches" in the Settings.

It's immensely wasteful in terms of dev time, but at the same time, hey, kudos for having all this stuff centralized in the one list, unwieldy as it's getting (at least there's a search in there).

I wish we could talk like adults about these things over here, because there's a ton of interesting nuance to how Windows 11 actually works, rather than the parody version that everybody loves to dunk on. There are some actually good features and choices I'd like to see make the jump to Linux and vice versa, even discounting things like hardware or software support. But nobody ever wants to have that conversation, it's all just the serotonin shot chase from rooting for the home team (and/or being contrarian about it).

Just installed cachy on my partners PC. They just play games, I handle the maintenance.

So far they are impressed at how quick it feels and how fast and unintrusive the system updates are.

i want to have that conversation, tell me about the good features and choices

My favorites PoPOS. And learning linux can lead to a good paying job.

Step 412: realize that there is no REAL alternative to Excel.