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Here's hoping not to start a flame war or anything...
While I like using AI as a search tool, I do not like the idea of forced embedded AI (ie Windows 11 Chrome, newest Mozilla, etc)
I personally run Linux based software at home, but I work in the Microsoft world at work, and not everything works nicely in Linux. I have multiple monitors at work and Windows is plug-n-play since W7; Linux can be a struggle to do this.

Cheers
Bruce S



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Using Win 11 at work there are annoying things that I'm glad I don't have to deal with at home.
For all the computing advances of the past 10 years, I haven't seen many that improve my productivity, ability to express ideas, or analyze a problem. This computer is running just fine with an i5 CPU and Windows 7, plus plenty of security doodads to keep the unwelcome parts of the internet out.  Software stalled out somewhere in the 2010's, and today engineers are using the same programs they were 15 years ago, just adorned with nicer GUI's (with some dreadful exceptions).

I haven't been keen to adopt too much AI in my daily computing, either.  That said, I'm generally impressed by the ability of Copilot to summarize discussions and meetings, and extract useful lists of tasks to follow up when my colleagues decide to do something.  But you have to get used to the idea of a Microsoft AI listening to every word you say and all the graphics up on the screen...

I have seen some struggling coworkers attempt to cover their shortcomings with AI results, but it's usually obvious and scatterbrained.  People mistake AI for "expert systems" which these LLM's aren't.  They actually have no more insight into how the world works than a 2 year old. 

This will change when AI becomes more sophisticated.  Personally, I think that AI's will remain dumb imitators for a while.  Once developers team up the AI's with robotics and give these combined machines more independence, then in time the AI's may gain the spark of experience to truly understand "right" and "wrong".
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Here at work, the MUST use the latest Win version that stays updated , unfortunately, is the route we must go since the Dispatch vendor only has their software working with Windows.
The W11 version's AI stuff is so embedded in it we (IT) have to resort to using PowerShell scripts to find and remove them every time an update gets loaded.
In a home-based system, this might not be a big issue for a while, but the CPU and memory hits these hooks starts showing up in speed losses pretty quickly. Our Workstation are no slouches either, even the GPU's though no bleeding edge , are some pretty good ones.
Any unfortunately, none of the WINE based apt's I've tried in Linux distros work well enough to move even the field based tablets over to a good distro.

Cheers
Bruce s

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Here at work, the MUST use the latest Win version that stays updated , unfortunately, is the route we must go since the Dispatch vendor only has their software working with Windows.
The W11 version's AI stuff is so embedded in it we (IT) have to resort to using PowerShell scripts to find and remove them every time an update gets loaded.
In a home-based system, this might not be a big issue for a while, but the CPU and memory hits these hooks starts showing up in speed losses pretty quickly. Our Workstation are no slouches either, even the GPU's though no bleeding edge , are some pretty good ones.
Any unfortunately, none of the WINE based apt's I've tried in Linux distros work well enough to move even the field based tablets over to a good distro.

Cheers
Bruce s

That is what keeps me away from Linux... I have Win only software that fails under any of the emulations I have tried. Some uses direct hardware access and that is where the problem lies...