Microsoft has started rolling out a.i. to its Windows Operating System for PCs. This “feature” pretends to make it easier to find documents on a computer.
What they should have done is create a reverse index for document retrieval by contents keyword. That proven technology has been around for decades, and doesn’t use a.i.
Microsoft’s tendency to force a.i. unto users of its Windows operating system poses significant threats to privacy and the safety of corporate secrets.
For those of us who have a business to protect, what operating systems help safeguard privacy?
I’ve been using Linux for near enough a quarter of a century as my main desktop and I haven’t regretted it yet.
Linux today is plenty easy to use today for a non-technical audience, runs with less resources, has global communities, comes in your language and it’s free.
I hear you.
Being able to search and read was the hardest part (read as not at all difficult)
99.9 % of my computer usage is FF and libreoffice.
Other than (maybe) initial setup there is nothing stopping “your mom” from being able to have Linux as a daily driver.
Microsoft is for some reason $$$$ shooting them selves in the foot they seem hell bent on making windows unusablely crappy. Oh look enshitification.
Case in point, my late 50s father was recently fired from his job of 36 years. They told him not to return the ancient E series thinkpad they had given him as an email checker, but wouldn’t give him a password to be able to use it. After finding the bios wasn’t locked I chucked Debian on it for him and he’s been using it for months to send applications with only a light introduction libreoffice and some minor tinkering with system settings to make it feel more familiar.
You are a good kid. Kudos.
They’ve been doing this shit since Windows 8 and haven’t lost any users so I don’t think “shooting then selves in the foot” makes sense.