Fuck AI

Unfortunately, here in Brazil you can easily buy laptops with Linux pre-installed from Dell, Acer, and others. They're cheaper, in fact.

So why "unfortunately"? Because for what I can only assume is some sort of purposeful sabotage, they use their own custom distro based on an ancient version of Ubuntu, with icons that look like ass, repositories that are missing all modern packages, horrendously bad pre-installed software, and no updates.

So if you check comments, they're filled with people who now think "Linux" = that sistro, and thus think Linux is functionally useless.

For those who don’t want to go with a lesser known brand Lenovo has several models that can be configured with Ubuntu or Fedora (usually a little cheaper than the Windows version).

Edit: I should also mention Framework who, despite ruffling some feathers recently for similar reasons as Proton, are still, in my opinion, one of the most viable alternatives to large corporations. Their machines can be purchased with no OS whatsoever.

Me too. It was even cheaper than the same laptop with Windows. I had a dual boot for years but the way things are right now I don't want to use Windows at all anymore.

Until I did my first Linux install a year and a half ago I didn't even know off-the-shelf Linux was a thing. It's a huge step forward.

They genuinely did rebrand office "The Copilot app" I shit you not. Check it out https://www.office.com/

Do you pronounce it, slow plot or slop o' lot?

I say it like Lancelot.

Is there a large vehicle to compensate for microslop?

Someone called it Microslop Cope-a-lot, and I love that.

Yeah, last year I had noticed they replaced 'office.com' with a chat prompt. I went to open a document and suddenly it's asking me to chat with it.

So just for fun, I decided to see if I could actually use the chat to get the file open. Turns out, no, it couldn't deal with my files unless I separately found it and uploaded it.

The first and foremost UI for Office could not find my file on onedrive and open it. Not only is it putting the chat first in an app that had been for editing documents, it doesn't even facilitate working on the files.

Office has like the worst LLM integration of big things with LLM integration, and they've declared that to be the focus of the product...

This made me laugh so hard when I first saw it.

"They shot themselves in the foot and don't even know it"

I.. don't think that's true. Google trends also confirms this is a new name invented now because of the word slop trending, but I welcome being proven wrong.

I remember we had lots of variations like Micro$oft, Microshaft, Microhard, Microshit, Microsloth, etc.

Pretty sure it was MicroSUX