Microsoft quietly scraps plans to bring Copilot to notifications and Settings on Windows 11 as it moves to reduce AI bloat across the OS

7 months ago by Nemeski to c/windows

Microsoft's plan to integrate Copilot across the Windows 11 shell has been shelved as the company reevaluates its AI approach across the OS.

SalamenceFury 55 points 7 months ago

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Marthirial 34 points 7 months ago

Too late Microslope. I am already one app away ending dual boot and after that, never again.

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Rhaedas 12 points 7 months ago

I haven't recovered my Windows partitiion for new space simply because I'm lazy. Haven't booted it in a long time now, haven' needed it. And the last time I did, it was so upset at me. I had a few things I was still using it for, one a game, but aftr not being active in it I went full Linux, and it's so much better. I get some people are still tied to things that aren't quite there for non-Windows, but it's becoming less and less.

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lemmyng 1 point 7 months ago

Which app? Does it have a FOSS/Linux alternative? Can it run through Proton/Wine?

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Marthirial 3 points 7 months ago

Affinity Studio. I managed to run it in Fedora but it is glitchy and the performance after 2 hours of work is abysmal. I am testing the move to Figma and if it works, goodbye dual boot.

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DaTingGoBrrr 2 points 7 months ago

I saw an affinity Linux installer a few weeks ago. Maybe it works to install affinity. Photoshop is also compatible with Wine now. They got the installer working recently

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TRBoom 2 points 7 months ago

Not him, but for me it was iTunes to put pirated music on my phone.

I managed with virtualbox and a win 11 vm.

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Skyline969 2 points 7 months ago

Sideload Sidestore+LiveContainer, install EeveeSpotifyReborn, music solved unless you’ve got extremely eclectic tastes.

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TRBoom 2 points 7 months ago

They’re pretty eclectic yeah.

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SalamenceFury 1 point 7 months ago

I'm stuck with Windows possibly forever or until maybe Valve manages to create a way for kernel based anti cheat to work on Linux, and also because of Clip Studio Paint.

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grue 6 points 7 months ago

Is it really worth your privacy and freedom just to play Fortnite or whatever?

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spicehoarder 4 points 7 months ago

I heard it's possible, or at least an integrity check good enough that does basically the same thing, but not a rootkit. Anyway, turns out these companies just don't like Linux, and want root privileges to your system.

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YurkshireLad 32 points 7 months ago

I just updated Linux and Windows on different drives on the same laptop. Fedora took 2 minutes to download, reboot and install. Windows? 20 minutes.

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Auster 18 points 7 months ago

Wonder what slop (not necessarily LLM/AI) they'll do elsewhere to compensate.

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FirmDistribution 5 points 7 months ago

Imagine if they just start selling clippy NFTs

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FirmDistribution 11 points 7 months ago

What is this decision? They should just double down on the AI uselessness and tell the people that they're all wrong, that's what a strong company would do!

Don't give up now Microsoft, you can do it!

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MrPnut 9 points 7 months ago

Have they walked back copilot in notepad yet? That’s when I got fed up and switched, but I don’t go back now even if they do get rid of it.

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