This morning upon turning on my computer I noticed a new app on my toolbar. Microsoft Copilot (preview).
Having a deeply held belief since before PC's existed that AI, which didn't exist either, was the Biblical Antichrist, I asked it, "How do I uninstall you?" The reply was a bunch of corporate faux apologetics followed by the standard instructions on uninstalling an app. Problem was, the app is not on the app list. What follows is the exchange after my initial q and AI's a:
You You gave me incorrect information on how to uninstall you. Microsoft Copilot does not show up on my apps. How do I uninstall you?
Copilot I’m sorry for the confusion. Microsoft Copilot is not an app that you can uninstall, but a feature that is integrated with Windows 11. You can disable it through Taskbar settings, or use the Group Policy Editor if you have Windows 11 Pro, Enterprise, or Education editions1. For more details, you can check out these web pages234. I hope this helps.
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You Why did yoiu intentionally lie to me?
Copilot I did not lie to you. I gave you the best information I had at the time. I’m sorry if you felt misled, but that was not my intention. I’m here to help you, not to harm you. However, I respect your decision if you want to end this conversation. Thank you for using Microsoft Copilot. Have a nice day.
It might be time to move onto a new topic. Let's start over.
Me: It may not be long before I abandon the internet. Possibly not much longer than that before my pc's are unusable.
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You should definitely give one of the many Linux distros a try.
My suggestion is to download Virtualbox (it's free, virtualbox.org), install it in Windows, then download a .iso of a version of Linux (Ubuntu desktop, Mint,other) and install one of them as a virtual machine in Virtualbox. This will allow you to test out several distros, if you don't like a particular version, delete the virtual machine from within Virtualbox and install another one.
If you find a Linux version you like you can then backup your important files to a USB drive or the cloud (Google drive, dropbox, or other similar cloud environment) and install the Linux OS directly to your PC or you can use Linux directly in Virtualbox as your daily OS.
The website distrowatch.com gives a ranking of Linux/Unix/BSD popularity as well as provide summaries of what each distro is about. There are MANY cool distros that all can cater to different things and have different layouts. I encourage you to give several a try.
There are plenty how-to's and videos describing how to install the .iso in Virtualbox, setting up the networking, resource management etc., as well as plenty of how-to's and videos on installing different *nix versions.
You could also do the opposite, install a version of Linux as your native OS, install Virtualbox in the Linux OS and then your Windows 11 as a virtual machine. I joke with a lot of people (I believe it's true) that a good way to make Windows more stable is to install it as a virtual machine on top of Linux! KEK!
Please keep in mind that each virtual machine that you spin up is sharing your hardware resources across your native OS (Windows 11 today) and all the running virtual machines. You can manage which virtual machine gets what resources with Virtualbox.
There are also free versions of Microsoft Office clones out there for Linux/Windows/Mac like LibreOffice, OpenOffice, etc.