Switching to Linux was so much less effort than I expected, and so much easier than trying to unfuck a new Windows install (which essentially requires pirating an enterprise version to have a chance), and then still have all of your data stolen despite best efforts. So, yeah, thanks Windows 11.
(which essentially requires pirating an enterprise version to have a chance)
So true! I owe some of my Linux journey to the discomfort from the downgrade from Windows Enterprise at work to the (kind of shit) Windows Home, at home.
I was given a macbook at programming work and honestly, the battery life sold me on it.
And with that Steam Cube thing, I can’t imagine anything Microsoft in my house.
Steam Cube thing
I saw someone call it the Valve GabeCube and I can’t unsee it now, lol
GabeCube is what I’m calling it forever, now. That’s great.
I don’t think I’ll get one (I have 2 Decks, a dock, and a gaming ex-Windows now CachyOS PC) but I’m excited for the controller. Couch play sucks without touchpads on so many games. Steam Input even makes games with massive numbers of keybinds work great; with nested radial menus, you can have hundreds of commands on 'em.
I’m one decent hard drive away from a full-blown Linux switch, but $60-$100 is $60-$100 since dual-boot is apparently suboptimal, which I can’t abide.
If you’re stuck on windows, you should know, the new version of O&O ShutUp will help you delete copilot off your system.
Cheers.
I love how these fuckers talk about the ability to “work anywhere” as if it were some kind of freedom. To me, freedom is shutting my work computer down at 4pm, leaving it on my desk at work, and going home - whether it is for the night, the weekend, or my vacation. I work at work and nowhere else; the only thing freer than that is not working at all.
I get it, but hear me out: My company offers to take “workation”. For one week this year I worked from another country. I worked for around six hours a day (shorter than usual, because I used some overtime) and enjoyed my freetime in a warm and nice city. I went to museums and good restaurants after work. I did not use one day of my (more than average) holidays for that, but took another week off for only holiday directly after the workation. It was great only possible because I had the possibilty to work from anywhere outside the office.
But here comes the thing. I didn’t need AI and didn’t need Windows for that. It’s possible for years already. Microsoft is - as everybody knows of course - trying to sell shit to people that they don’t need and don’t want.
Why not just do that every week? That’s just called working remotely.
Sounds good to me, and i agree that AI adds no value to telework.
Do you ever feel pressured to be more available? That was my problem with telework. I’m salaried, so no overtime. I found my days kept getting longer and longer.
Blue checkmarks fund Nazis. It’s these fuckheads pushing Ai slop onto us.
reads just like the old web3 grifters
Some other tech website did an article recently about how to unfuck windows as much as possible. Like four pages of tricks, registry edits, third party tools.
People in the comments were like “you know, Linux is free and is getting very user friendly.”
People were mad. People really want to stick to windows.
No idea why. I’m running basic pop!_os and have no real complaints.
I mean, I’m pretty mad. Linux has been user friendly since Ubuntu
Switching to Linux requires a certain level of technical skill and patience that the majority of people don’t have.
It’s the same as the build-your-own-PC people. That’s their hobby, so they don’t count the years of experience, research, and knowledge that they’ve built up.
See also: recipe writers who don’t include prep time in their time estimates.
Switching to Linux requires a certain level of technical skill and patience that the majority of people don’t have.
It does. However, it was a technical news website so I assumed the audience had a higher than average technical affinity. This seems to have been a bad assumption
That said, installing Linux is easier than people imagine. Most of the time you download the image and follow some short instructions.
Admittedly, the minority of the time you might have to troubleshoot.
It’s just old people stuck to their old ways, kinda like gas car users. EVs are faster quicker and more powerful, less noisy and no combustion stink(especially when parking in ur home garage) as a bonus!
i for one am very excited about this new “AI” pc idea. it will really help to streamline my job, where i spend 8 hours a day talking to Cortana™ and browsing LinkedIn™
Nice. That sounds like hell.
It also sounds like the worst cutscenes in Halo III, haha.
Almost all actual users hate this. Unfortunately, it is corporate customers that buy the majority of Windows licenses, and those C-levels gobble up that shit like there was no tomorrow…
Agentic, I fucking hate this word.
It’s only meaning is to management, and is some kind of horseshit way of saying “less employees to pay”
Words for it already exist. Its whole purpose is marketing and AI fart huffing.
So, you’re just wrong. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_agent
An “agent” is specific a type of software that long predates LLMs and this go-round of AI hype.
One example of an agent is a computer program that reads log data of another program and forwards the log data to a log management server. Another example of an agent is an LLM chatbot that can perform actions on its own.
Not all agents are chatbots, and not all chatbots are agents.
I never said agent is a new word, but thanks for telling me I’m wrong.
Assistive, aid, helpful are all words that could be used in place of the word agentic. It feels inauthentic and fluffy because it is.
I’ve never heard of agentic before because it is novel word marketing bullshit. Like IoT before it and many others, words existed to explain the technology in plain language but industry gargon takes hold and isn’t interrogated for being cold, non-inclusive and confusing.
I’ve never heard of agentic before
Because it was an idea floating around before but it never worked out and they never spoke about it afterwards.
The wikipedia article that I already linked is another example that proves that you are wrong.
The article has existed since January 14 2004: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Software_agent&oldid=2149104 here is the very first version of the wikipedia article on Software agents, which does not even mention AI and lists software like a mail transfer agent or software daemons.
The fact that you’ve never heard of it before does not make it a novel word. Unless you define “novel” as a technical term that has been in use since the early 1970s… 🙄
https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/en/publications/process-a-mathematical-model-of-computing-agents/
^ published 1975.
Process: A mathematical model of computing agents
- Find in page ‘agentic’
- 0 results found
Bruh slow down on the “ahktually” and read what you’re putting out there lmao
Lol. The word “agentic” has been used since 1864. https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=agentic&year_start=1800&year_end=2025
You’re wrong.
Technological speak isn’t colloquial every day language. Other industries simply aren’t taken to forcing industry terms into the general populace.
Use of the word agentic in everyday language is novel and marketing intentful.
Just because I say with peers that a leaf is cordate, sinistrose, and estipulate with a hirsute abaxial surface doesn’t mean anyone in science journalism will use those terms. They use colloquial language like the leaf is heart-shaped, spirally arranged, without a stem, and with small hairs on the underside because these terms make broad sense to the public.
It’s novel but not wrong. Plenty of technical terms have inserted themselves into our language over time. I can think of bandwidth and logistics at the top of my head. Catalyst feels very technical as well. Logistics started as military jargon and is brought over from French.
Just thought of Segway as well. Not sure if it started as technical jargon but it’s definitely some weird bastardization.
So, let me make sure I understand your position, you’re mad that people are correctly using a technical term that has existed for over 50 years and think they should use a different word because you personally did not know that word before? Okie dokie. 🤷
Would you rather we just call every type of software an “app”?
“So you’re just wrong” says the guy who doesn’t understand that “agent” and “agentic” are different words. One is a real word you can find in a dictionary with a long history of use. The other one is a neologism obviously referencing and created out of the other word, using a tortured conjugation process that only a marketer could love. We’re talking about the latter word while you’re busy defending the former word. They’re not the same word.
Welp, you tried! https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=agentic&year_start=1800&year_end=2025 the word “agentic” has been in use since 1864. Just wrong.
The OP’s thread you are entering into is talking about the word agenetic.
See even autocorrect from the very companies shovelling it down our throats can’t get it right because it is a fake novel marketing word.
Yes, that is correct. Glad we are on the same page
Agentic, I fucking hate this word.
It joins ‘the ask’ and ‘the spend’ and ‘action this’ as words people use to sound trendy and smart. It’s the surest sign someone went from Used Cars to I.T sales in their career, and should be heard with similar mistrust.
If your peers use these - heck, if they use ‘emails’, pluralizing the mass noun - just laugh at them like you got their absurdist attempt to lampoon one of these people so they can learn how ridiculous they sound. Help your friends.
You really, unironically, say “I received 10 email today” and think it’s other people who sound stupid?
Lol imagine judging others’ competency from insignificant grammatical nitpicks that you’re not even correct about… ironic!
The person I am replying to has a consistent history of snobbish prescriptivism and disrespect for anyone who doesn’t follow what they think is the correct version of the rules of life.
I’ve seen this attitude before, especially with how things are pronounced, like saying “Ess Cue Ell” instead of “Sequel” means that you don’t really know SQL. Or saying “Enn Jinx” instead of “Engine X” means you don’t have real experience with Nginx. It’s just nonsense.
Agreed.
I do my part by pronouncing each acronym differently than my immediate peers.
Agreed.
I do my part by pronouncing each acronym differently than my immediate peers.
Exactly this. Used to work in for profit corporate offices and this was my experience for nearly two decades. The imbeciles trying to sound important used trendy corpo speak and got nothing else done timely or well.
It’s beyond “nobody asked for this.” People are actively saying “this is bad, I want not this.”
it’s like Nigerian prince scam email – they don’t want you as a customer if you’re smart enough to recognize you’re the resource being extracted.
Leave Micro-Star International out of gnite
These days I only ever log into windows to play one game. And I put that game as the windows wallpaper so it sits as a reminder as the only one thing windows is required for.
If that game ever becomes Linux playable or I grow tired of it or it becomes obsolete I’m ridding myself of Microsoft for good. I will never even consider playing another game that will not play on Linux. Any game in my wish list that I found cannot be played on Linux is immediately tossed so I never have to touch windows again.
Everything else: work, all other games, dealing with my life stuff, projects: all fedora. FOSS rules. The transition was easier than I thought it was going to be. No one drive or any of that $hit for me. And I also get to keep my old server. <3
Same. Mine’s League of Legends. The guilty pleasure, my huge red flag.
What’s the game?
