STOP TRYING TO INSTALL COPILOT
Linux has been my main computer for 20+ years now. I do have to work with Windows desktops, windows servers, windows Azure services even, and I remote into them or deploy to them. But I don’t understand this big Windows 11 is SOOO bad. They are ALL bad. Windows 2000 was the last decent windows as far as I am concerned. WinXP pushed me to Linux full time. 10 is shit, 11 is shit. So it goes.
Your headline is about co-pilot. Do what you have had to do with ALL windows versions when there is something you do not want: never use a “home edition”, prefer an enterprise version, and then set a group policy.
Linux is of course the based solution but I feel you. Windows has gotten so fucking bad since 10, to the point where I feel like 10 was the first windows version I’ve personally used that has gotten WORSE during its life cycle.
95 and XP had popular service pack updates that improved things immeasurably.
Vista had a bunch of updates and service pack shit that largely solved a load of people’s complaints with it by the end.
7 was goated with the sauce the whole time.
8 had 8.1 which was basically Win 10 lite. Not as good as 7 for most people but the .1 upgrade was the biggest improvement for a Windows version imo.
Now Windows 10 has just gotten shittier and shittier; It peaked around 2021. Even before I got onto Linux (and became biased) they were stuffing adware and toolbar shit into the desktop almost every update, and even with Win11 in full swing they’ve tried shoehorning AI crap into 10 anyway. What could’ve been another Windows 7 ended up being about as bad to use as 8.1.
Use the people’s operating system, Comrade!
Almost everything I have on my account works just as well, if not better than it does on windows thanks to valve’s proton layer and the lower resource usage overhead on linux. There are a couple games here and there that won’t work however, as their devs haven’t enabled linux anticheat support, but just about every single player game will work almost flawlessly.
You can check your own library’s compatibility using protondb.com
Ugh. I mostly main linux but on this gaming laptop it came with win 11 and I had to jump through hoops to downgrade it to win 10. This is the last time I windows.
I just thought I might want to run games natively. I don’t.
I saw you said something bout Google Drive. You can sync google drive and one drive and all that shit on linux. Just need to find an application you like that provides that functionality and then do, you know, the thing. Eg. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Insync <- haven’t used it but allegedly you can sync to the google and microsoft cloud storage shits using this tool, letting you basically mount them to your local filesystem.
Not saying you should use arch linux, their wiki is just usually very comprehensive as far as finding out how people solve various problems. A solution described on there can usually be applied to some other distro, with adjustments for that other distro’s particular quirks and configuration.
Alternatively, and I hate to suggest this, but buying a second hand macbook will get you out of the microsoft ecosystem while being accessible enough that you don’t need to learn and get used to a bunch of new things before you can confidently get back on with using the machine productively.
I tried changing the time format in windows 11 and I had to go through like 4 submenus
