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Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings (www.cnet.com)
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"We set out to solve one of the most common frustrations we hear — finding and changing settings on your PC — using the power of AI agents," Navjot Virk, corporate vice president of Windows Experiences at Microsoft, said in a blog post on Tuesday. "An agent uses on-device AI to understand your intent and with your permission, automate and execute tasks."

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[–] GalacticTaterTot@lemmy.world 54 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Maybe if you didn't split settings into that half-baked settings app, then leave control panel in place with the remaining settings, but make control panel increasingly difficult to get to, we wouldn't need a stupid AI agent to help us change settings.

[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 16 points 16 hours ago (4 children)

Yes! I really feel all this copilot bullshit is to hide the fact they released windows 11 broken as fuck and here 2.5 years later it's still a pile of shit. It's just fucked. I have to use it daily for work and clients and it's done nothing but prepare me to install W10 LTSC this summer or move to Linux. Problem with Linux is a have an Nvidia GPU and don't like having to fuck with that, otherwise Zorin it will be. Windows 11 pushes me everyday to hate it more and more. Seriously. Daily fucking updates for broken shit and shoving AI down our throats. Fuck windows.

[–] levzzz@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

I'm dualbooting CachyOS with windows, no issues with my rtx 4070 super.

[–] The_Caretaker@lemm.ee 2 points 12 hours ago

CachyOS rocks. I settled on it after trying many Linux distros and CachyOS won. All distros had pros and cons CachyOS was easy to update. Easy to install and remove programs without the terminal. Proton and Wine run great on it so most of my Steam and Epic games are playable and all media types play without tinkering. That was an issue with Fedora.

[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

I'll look into it again this summer. It's on the list, just not at the moment

[–] Phantom_Engineer@lemmy.ml 4 points 15 hours ago

I'm in a similar situation, though I've already got a dual boot set up so it's just a matter of only using Windows when I just absolutely have to.

Earlier today, I tried to zip a directory on Windows 11 with the context menu, and it wouldn't do it! It's a feature that's been in Windows forever and is even in Ubuntu, but somehow over at Microsoft they've managed to break it. Incredible.

[–] UnpledgedCatnapTipper@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Windows 11 actually released 3.5 years ago!

[–] Don_alForno@feddit.org 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I have an nvidia GPU and it worked out of the box.

[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

I need to look into it more, it's on my list for this summer