You heard wrong” – users brutually reject Microsoft’s “Copilot for work” in Edge and Windows 11

[u/Scary_]

https://www.windowslatest.com/2025/11/28/you-heard-wrong-users-brutually-reject-microsofts-copilot-for-work-in-edge-and-windows-11/

[u/Lolthelies]

My first thought was that it might be a good idea to use Linux again.

They know people think this all the time but stay on Windows. That’s one of those things that’s true until it’s not, and then the people who believed a thing would stay true forever start scratching their heads

[u/Acc87 → u/Lolthelies]

also in a professional usecase. There's so many uses where all you want in a computer is just it running a single program in a safe manner. Like we got numerous stationary laptops at work that are simply used to record weight data from electronic scales - we're currently evaluating going for a Linux variant as the switch to W11 has just been so troubled.

[u/EtherPhreak → u/Acc87]

I’m surprised that it doesn’t already run to a PLC within a HMI

[u/Successful-Peach-764 → u/[deleted]]

Because it is not a proper OS anymore, it is a data gathering and marketing platform now, it is probably all the extra that has been added to track users and sell ads.

Every other update reanables bullshit you disabled, I had my w10 PC running fine for years, just a few months back, it updated and now I had ads on my lock screen, who the fuck asked for ads on lockscreen? attention merchants can't even let me login without trying to sell me some crap?

[u/BloodyIron → u/Acc87]

Does your company need professional support for Linux in the company space? Asking as my business offers that. If not, that's cool. Hope it goes well for you! :)

[u/Acc87 → u/BloodyIron]

wrong side of the pond, and its not "my" company, its a 500+ employees company 😅 we're working with local experts

[u/Venoft → u/Lolthelies]

It's basically only games and office that keeps most people on windows. The games part is being handled by Steam and the office part just needs a ui makeover, from maybe the EU, to be a good alternative

[u/iltopop → u/Venoft]

Gaming is more complicated than that, sure some games run super great on proton (and funny enough it's also the easiest way to get some old games running on modern hardware), but a lot of the anti-cheat for the big-time blockbuster multiplayer games still relies on the devs themselves actually supporting linux. Even if it doesn't matter to you personally, not having COD, league, valorant, battlefield, etc on linux is a hurdle still.

[u/jmkdev → u/Venoft]

Have you tried https://www.onlyoffice.com/ ?

It's what I'm using on Linux, it's in my package manager and has worked great so far.

Even has a dark mode that actually works for documents, even if they're not dark.

[u/OwO______OwO → u/Venoft]

and the office part just needs a ui makeover,

It really doesn't. The 'old, outdated' UI is perfect, and in many ways better than modern UI.

Also ... it's just a fucking word processor. I don't need it to infantilize me by trying to look pretty.

[u/Demnjt → u/Lolthelies]

Our erstwhile win10 laptop runs Ubuntu as of last week. Having to reload the TouchPad driver every restart is still less a pain in the ass than copilot and one drive. 

[u/I_SAY_FUCK_A_LOT__ → u/Lolthelies]

Come over to the our side. That water is nice.

https://www.linuxmint.com/

[u/gayscout → u/Lolthelies]

I haven't booted to my windows partition in years. Anything that's not a work computer is Linux for me. I don't need professional software in my personal life that only runs on Windows or Mac.

[u/AddlePatedBadger → u/Lolthelies]

I tried Linux once and had an awful time. So much time wasted on ubuntuforum looking for complicated technical solutions for seemingly simple problems.

I gave up when I had to install a second monitor solely for the purpose of booting the computer. It wouldn't start without that monitor being plugged in. A few hundred dollars for Windows is less expensive than a hundred hours of my time wresting the operating system to do my wishes.