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[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 97 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Just bought a Linux laptop. It’s that easy now.

Maybe start linking Juno, Star, System76, or whatever in conjunction with this Microslop crap to normalize brands that do nothing but Linux.

People buy Microsoft, in part, because it’s off the shelf ready. Get people as close to that as possible and converts will happen more readily.

Avoid the #Microslop : insertlinkhere

[–] kadu@scribe.disroot.org 52 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

sabatogage I assume, or they cared for a week then stopped, kinda like companies always do... chase something they think will make them more money, then abandon improving it after implementation

[–] Hawke@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

“Corporate ADHD” I call it.

[–] criticon@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

At least you know the hardware will work and you can install your own distro (I know regular people won't know how to do this)

I was looking for a convertible laptop during the holidays and I looked for compatibility and all of them had drivers missing, like the SD card, touchscreen, orientation sensor for tablet mode, bezel sensor for tablet mode. I ended up keeping my old laptop with mint and getting an android tablet that "just works"

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

At least you know the hardware will work and you can install your own distro (I know regular people won't know how to do this)

That's assuming the hardware vendor didn't use a closed fork of the kernel with their own drivers hacked into it.

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 6 points 1 week ago

That's usually costlier. It happens, but it's not the norm.

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

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.

[–] officermike@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I permanently wrote off Lenovo after the Superfish factory-installed BIOS-level malware scandal.

[–] tiramichu@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Superfish wasn't at the BIOS level, it was a root certificate preinstalled in the OS. Wiping the machine and installing Linux as your operating system would have prevented any exploit.

I can see why you'd still be rightfully put-off though, since it shows a lack of good security hygiene, and you have to assume if they screwed up once there's no reason they won't do it again for similarly profit-driven reasons.

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago

Also other brands have been just as bad about using the correct certificate.

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[–] Waldelfe@feddit.org 10 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[–] shittydwarf@piefed.social 91 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 87 points 1 week ago

Love that their CEO is being openly and globally mocked for this.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 77 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Microslop's next move is to rebrand Office into Slopilot.

[–] ErmahgherdDavid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 58 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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

[–] DeadPixel@lemmy.zip 28 points 1 week ago
[–] TerdFerguson@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

it's a sneaky move to make it seem like Copilot is generating revenue.

Otherwise why torpedo one of your biggest and most recognized products with a name change like this? Stupid either way, and the result of executive circle jerking.

why torpedo one of your biggest and most recognized products with a name change

Is Elon Musk on Microslop's board or something?

The one that baffles me is renaming Remote Desktop to "Windows App." There was a time in American history when doing something that stupid was punished by having a trocar hammered through your tear duct at the Brain Stirring Clinic.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 5 points 1 week ago

🤣🤣 🤣

[–] Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] colourlessidea@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 week ago

Or slow pilot

I say it like Lancelot.

[–] phaedrus@piefed.world 54 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Microslop is the new micropenis

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Is there a large vehicle to compensate for microslop?

[–] phaedrus@piefed.world 24 points 1 week ago

It's called a data center. You can generate so many compensators in one of those bad boys, driven or otherwise!

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[–] bpalmerau@aussie.zone 4 points 1 week ago

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

[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 52 points 1 week ago (2 children)

And then in a perfectly tone deaf manner, they rename Office as “Copilot app”

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 36 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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...

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's utterly ridiculous. They're desperate to add AI everywhere since they've made huge investments without generating meaningful profit, so they have to at least pump up usage numbers so they can argue "it's a long-term investment" towards their shareholders.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

That does make the most sense. A pretty common thing in those companies, 'bet the company' on some big brand/concept, then when it fails do rebranding of/bundling with more successful products and declare victory to your investors, collect your bonus and enjoy the money you get to keep when/if the chickens come home to roost. Ideally on the next executives tenure so you still get to blame them for messing up 'your vision'.

One of my favorite examples, IBM had Sam Palmisano declare a 'Roadmap 2015' and then immediately retired, claiming the hypothetical victory of his entirely made up projections, and blaming Ginni Romnetty for failing to deliver. See also their attempt to brand a whole lot of unrelated stuff 'Watson' in the wake of the jeopardy stunt, and their reclassifying basically all their hardware sales as 'cloud' to investors when nothing credible popped for them, and they just said 'anything that might be virtualization is cloud', even if it were the same exact virtualization they had been doing for decades...

[–] kinther@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

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

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[–] Tartufo@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago

"Microslop"? Love it! The new name I mean, not what they're doing. Going to spread this around among some people who don't social media for some good times.

[–] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 week ago
[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 week ago

Microslop: The Genocide Computing Company

[–] Labna@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

In French, I like to call it "Microchiote", cause "chiote" is a familiar name for toilet.

And for "Windaube" cause "daube" mean (Slang) Something of poor quality.

[–] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Butlerian Jihad When?

[–] C1pher@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Good. Just scrap that fucking system entirely. It will be more costly to fix that broken shit, than to start over fresh and propper.

[–] user28282912@piefed.social 6 points 1 week ago

Microslop Nopilot 364

[–] groucho@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's good to see the old ways still being followed. We were calling them Microslop back when Windows ME released.

[–] Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 1 week ago (5 children)

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.

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[–] spicehoarder@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago

Pretty sure it was MicroSUX

[–] melfie@lemy.lol 4 points 1 week ago

I’m waiting for the SlopilotOS rebrand announcement.

[–] Klnsfw@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 1 week ago

I get the joke, but Macroslop would be more accurate

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