Recently I had a hiccup with my main SSD drive. I have a dual boot Win/Kubuntu setup. Linux was crashing hard and Windows was giving me blue screens. After I resolved the issue (cooling/loose connection, idk) my Linux was doing fine, but Windows was giving me blue screens. I think it was doing an update when it crashed.
After a couple of hours messing with my recovery USB and booting in safe mode, I was able to fix the bad update and reboot normally.
I tried to open Firefox and it couldn’t find the executable. Looking into the Program Files Mozilla folder, I found the .exe files had been renamed to .exe.sig???
Then looking for the Edge browser, I suddenly found out that Microsoft Copilot AI had been installed!?!?!?!?!?!?
What the actual fuck???
I never wanted that trash on my PC! That’s one of the reasons out of the many that I didn’t want to use Windows 11.
And it’s a weird fucking coincidence that Firefox was fucked. I couldn’t even rename the files to .exe because they wouldn’t execute. Looks like they were encrypted or some shit? What the fuck is Microsoft pulling?
It’s a happy coincidence because you know what? I’ve been thinking about going full Linux install since all my games and Windows applications work with Steam, Proton and Bottles now.
I really don’t see any fucking reason to keep using Windows. Fuck this shit and fuck Microsoft.
Edit: Oh and that’s on top of all the other bullshit like forcing users to create a MS account to install Windows 10 now and having to jump through hoops to have an offline installation. And also defaulting to having all your user folder documents into their fucking One Drive cloud.
I’m done.
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Yup, Microsoft fucking sucks. Unfortunately some of us are stuck with them for now, because reasons.
For anyone wanting to bypass the Microsoft account bullshit when setting up Windows, here are the steps:
- Don’t plug the PC into your network
- At the WIFI setup stage, press Shift-F10
- Type oobe\bypassnro (in the command window, then press Enter)
- Reboot. Finish installation.
I’ve previously posted videos showing you how to do this, but the Dwight Schrutes of lemmy yell at me when I do that. Anyway, you can find it on YouTube (if you don’t have ADHD and appreciate actually seeing someone do the steps first).
Edit: Here’s a link to a video at the relevant time offset. You don’t have to watch the whole thing, only a minute or two:
No need to attack ADHD people and use it as a slur. Some of us just don’t feel the need for instructions that are going to be typed out anyways to be put into a video. Ffs, you just put the entire instructions in 4 sentences. Why on earth would I want a video for that?
You’re the Dwight.
Fuck Microsoft and all that, but you might have a hardware problem if Kubuntu is crashing too. It won’t install Copilot and it’s less likely to lose you files but you probably want to look into it. RAM, SSD, etc.
Yeah I definitely had an SSD issue. It’s installed right above the graphics card which can get hot. I think it may have become loose. I let the PC cool and pushed it back in and it’s fine now.
But that left some Windows files corrupted.
I never wanted that trash on my PC!
In a few years, you won’t think much of it. And neither will almost anyone else. Windows $VERSION-1’s horrible new features have become “normal” and accepted by the herd, and so too will Windows $CURRENT-VERSION’s horrible new features.
Boiling frog, normalization, salami slicing, the tyrant’s tip toe.
Microsoft, and other big tech companies, know this well. And they will continue to exploit the public’s amnesiac memory.
Making my prediction now: In 2028+/- 1 year, anyone objecting to antifeatures specifically similar to copilot will promptly be shouted down as being a tin foil hat conspiracy theorist “OMG you’re such a schizoid, just use what everyone else is using! It’s not so bad. Sheesh!”
