Microsoft is working on a new project labeled Windows ‘K2’, intent on removing bloatware, reducing AI, and optimizing Windows 11 for gaming, with three focuses of ‘performance, craft, and reliability’.
the issue is not about performance, is about enshitification. I mean, do we need TPM? do we need Microslop account to login our pc/laptop? do they really need to shove Copilot into Windows?
I really want to see more GNI/Linux and Tux GIF’s/Images made to see out in the wild like this
If you made this you are a goat!
Rather than a dedicated release (or update) for Windows 11, project K2 is Microsoft’s effort to maintain high quality across current and future versions of the OS, prioritizing consistency, and ultimately win back the trust of users.
This reads as a big nothing. So they’re going to focus on making quality software now? Can I ask where that ranked on their priority list prior and where does it rank with ‘project K2’? Something tells me it’s somewhere in the double digits still. But it’s an ‘effort’ now!
They’ll either never do it, or do it for a year or so then go back to being pieces of shit.
Also expect this:
“hey windows is better”
yeah? Is it this good?
“well, no, but…”
This has been their MO for time immemorial. Make windows shit, right up to the line where people will leave. Only discover where the line actually is after they’ve stepped over it, then backpedal just enough to stem the exodus and keep people locked in. Repeat.
There you are, racking up multi kills, bonus points are pouring in. The map is yours and you are about to push the score back in favour of your team…
When all of a sudden
“DO YOU WANT TO TURN ON STICKY KEYS? PWEASE LOGIN TO ONEDRIVE TO ACTIVATE YOUR 365 COPILOT ACCOUNT SUBSCRIPTION. ACTIVATING BITLOCKER LOCKDOWN.”
should just use the Linux kernel and pit their version of the desktop on top of that.
The only value windows has is that it runs software made by companies that are too lazy to add another build target
I’m imagining Microsoft taking it all the way and when you buy a Win13 license key, it basically installs a custom theme in KDE Plasma or maybe Cinnamon.
It might be worse for their profits long term than sticking with their locked down bullshit, but it’s kind of funny to think that they would first make billions of dollars of sales on their linux distro.
I don’t even care what they do at this point, they’ve proved themselves to be so incompetent that I have no desire to go back to windows.
Microsoft is reportedly looking at Valve’s SteamOS as the benchmark for gaming
Yeah, that’s Linux
Valve’s SteamOS continues to show significant advantages over Windows 11 for gamers, with better memory utilization and improved in-game performance, but Microsoft has a plan to combat that.
Let that sink in for a second. Linux with a not-an-emulation layer API runs Microsoft Windows games faster than Microsoft Windows, and so now Microsoft is scrambling to get windows at least as efficient again as Linux in running Windows products.
Anyone ever trusting Microsoft again is a dumbass fool
We really need more alternative private non-stock unionized companies in USA made to go against Big Tech
That’s really what it comes down to. Better alternatives across the board
Of course not.
Install Linux, Problem Solved.
Help others switch then the problem is fully solved
Get rid of telemetry, ads, AI, and the MS account requirement for a start.
If Microsoft wants to win users back, the only way to do that is by re-releasing Windows 7, and make a legal contract to never add spyware, monetization, adware, AI, service accounts to install/log in to the PC, or anything else to it.
Windows 7 was the peak of their capabilities. everything before that was building up to 7, everything after was a series of missteps and fuckups.
But thats never gonna happen.
10 was also perfectly fine.
I might consider Windows again if they made civil promises in such a way as to expose themselves to existential-level class-action lawsuits, should they go back on their word. Nothing less. Show me you’re ready to die for my trust, otherwise you’re not getting it back — ever.
Actually… hmm… could we plebs trick the execs and shareholders into giving us powerful corporate positions, where we can do exactly this? That would be a very aggressive and interesting way to make corporations beholden to the public good.
I nuked my hard drive when they kept shoving more invasive idiocy, more sloppy shite, and a confluence of cloud crap into it.
They’re not going to win me back by integrating their overpriced subscription PS+ knock-off crap further into their joke of an OS.
This is such a huge W for linux. It legitimizes linux as a real competitor in so many eyes.
That’s because it is a legitimate competitor. It’s the freedom OS, and only way for the world to escape Americas big tech fascism.
Yeah I know I’ve been using it for gaming for years. But when I say linux is good people might brush it off because oh you would say that as a linux user. But im highlighting that Microsoft saying this legitimizes Linux in a completely different way. It legitimizes it for all the people that see Windows as the best OS the people outside the linux bubble.
There is no greater force in the world than how glass half full Linux users can be, makes me so proud.
Then they fight you.
Bring it on
That was a solid ad
There’s nothing MS can do to make me trust them again. They can “love bomb” all they want, but a toxic ex is a toxic ex.
Publicly traded corporations will always exploit anything and anyone they can get away with to maximize their profits. They will only improve just enough to trap you again, then the exploitation begins again.
a toxic ex is a toxic ex
This, for sure, but if she wants to dance I’ll dance with her. 🤪
For serious, tho: people change. I don’t expect mega corporations to ever change for the better. They’ll do whatever they need to get money and you can guarantee they’ll fuck you (the bad kind) as soon as you’re invested.
For serious, tho: people change. I don’t expect mega corporations to ever change for the better.
at the very best, they can, on occasion, do something thats accidentally good.
But that never really meaningfully alters the trajectory of evil.
Reducing ai but not removing it ain’t it
Knowing Microsoft, the new project is an update to DirectX which has features impossible for Proton to translate without violating anti-circumvention laws or an always on DRM baked into core features.
Section 1201(f) of the DMCA allows for interoperability; I’m sure Valve’s lawyers will figure it out
They could also do the Nintendo thing and plaster their trademarked name all over critical functions or interfaces and then sue anyone who tries to re-write their software, since you still have to handle calls to the MicrosoftTMOfficialDirectX13Windows_draw() function. Using a registered trademark without permission violates a different set of laws.
This would be fair use. Has already been decided https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_LLC_v._Oracle_America,_Inc.
Arguably the trademark issue has not been exactly resolved but I think this case will be very persuasive.
My only hope with this is that MS doesn’t have a complete hold on the gaming market anymore. Valve has to hold some serious sway at this point, and MS doing that might backfire on them.
