"Microslop" trends on social media — backlash to Microsoft's on-going AI obsession continues
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Just bought a Linux laptop. It’s that easy now.
Maybe start linking Juno, Star, System76, or whatever in conjunction with this Microslop crap to normalize brands that do nothing but Linux.
People buy Microsoft, in part, because it’s off the shelf ready. Get people as close to that as possible and converts will happen more readily.
Avoid the #Microslop : insertlinkhere
Unfortunately, here in Brazil you can easily buy laptops with Linux pre-installed from Dell, Acer, and others. They're cheaper, in fact.
So why "unfortunately"? Because for what I can only assume is some sort of purposeful sabotage, they use their own custom distro based on an ancient version of Ubuntu, with icons that look like ass, repositories that are missing all modern packages, horrendously bad pre-installed software, and no updates.
So if you check comments, they're filled with people who now think "Linux" = that sistro, and thus think Linux is functionally useless.
sabatogage I assume, or they cared for a week then stopped, kinda like companies always do... chase something they think will make them more money, then abandon improving it after implementation
“Corporate ADHD” I call it.
At least you know the hardware will work and you can install your own distro (I know regular people won't know how to do this)
I was looking for a convertible laptop during the holidays and I looked for compatibility and all of them had drivers missing, like the SD card, touchscreen, orientation sensor for tablet mode, bezel sensor for tablet mode. I ended up keeping my old laptop with mint and getting an android tablet that "just works"
At least you know the hardware will work and you can install your own distro (I know regular people won't know how to do this)
That's assuming the hardware vendor didn't use a closed fork of the kernel with their own drivers hacked into it.
That's usually costlier. It happens, but it's not the norm.
For those who don’t want to go with a lesser known brand Lenovo has several models that can be configured with Ubuntu or Fedora (usually a little cheaper than the Windows version).
Edit: I should also mention Framework who, despite ruffling some feathers recently for similar reasons as Proton, are still, in my opinion, one of the most viable alternatives to large corporations. Their machines can be purchased with no OS whatsoever.
I permanently wrote off Lenovo after the Superfish factory-installed BIOS-level malware scandal.
Superfish wasn't at the BIOS level, it was a root certificate preinstalled in the OS. Wiping the machine and installing Linux as your operating system would have prevented any exploit.
I can see why you'd still be rightfully put-off though, since it shows a lack of good security hygiene, and you have to assume if they screwed up once there's no reason they won't do it again for similarly profit-driven reasons.
Also other brands have been just as bad about using the correct certificate.
My apologies, I conflated it with something else they embedded into UEFI around the same time. Lenovo Service Engine had security vulnerabilities and couldn't be removed with a fresh Windows install, as UEFI would just execute it at startup.
I've had a few false starts with Linux. I've tried a couple different distros here and there over the last 20-ish years, but I never make it more than a week before falling back to Windows. That said, I hate Microsoft's direction, and I'm holding onto Windows 10 as long as I can.
Lenovo ThinkPads, yes. Integrated graphics only.
Moving beyond integrated graphics in pre-builds is one of the larger issues in terms of availability.
For people who can only afford 1 and only 1 machine for everything, getting a version with an actual graphics card in it is going to be a necessity.
If you need dedicated graphics and Linux and only want to screw with one machine I highly recommend you check out Framework mentioned in my comment edit above. Their 16 can be configured with integrated or dedicated either AMD or Nvidia graphics and can be purchased with no OS.
Purchasing with Linux preinstalled is problematic for some users because for most distros (though this is being actively worked on) encryption is set up during install not OOBE.
The vast majority don't need dedicated graphics in their notebooks. It would be a waste of money and energy
Even so, you would think the option would be available on the more expensive machines but it isn’t always.
No, you wouldn't think so. Producing a model that's available with optional dedicated graphics makes no sense. With notebooks every gram and millimeter counts so you would want different models for integrated graphics and dedicated. Which Lenovo has plenty to choose from.
If Lenovo made my X1 Carbon thicker and heavier just so you could have an optional dedicated GPU I would be pissed and buy something else. That's what the X1 extreme is for
It doesn’t need to be a Thinkpad. It just needs to exist.
Why is this even an argument? We’re discussing normalizing Linux in the public brain. So, tweak a Legion for compatibility. Whatever. So long as 1 option for each purpose exists to get this OS out there and push back on Microslop in the process.
Me too. It was even cheaper than the same laptop with Windows. I had a dual boot for years but the way things are right now I don't want to use Windows at all anymore.
Until I did my first Linux install a year and a half ago I didn't even know off-the-shelf Linux was a thing. It's a huge step forward.
Love that their CEO is being openly and globally mocked for this.
Microslop's next move is to rebrand Office into Slopilot.
They genuinely did rebrand office "The Copilot app" I shit you not. Check it out https://www.office.com/
WTF!?!?
it's a sneaky move to make it seem like Copilot is generating revenue.
Otherwise why torpedo one of your biggest and most recognized products with a name change like this? Stupid either way, and the result of executive circle jerking.
why torpedo one of your biggest and most recognized products with a name change
Is Elon Musk on Microslop's board or something?
The one that baffles me is renaming Remote Desktop to "Windows App." There was a time in American history when doing something that stupid was punished by having a trocar hammered through your tear duct at the Brain Stirring Clinic.
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Do you pronounce it, slow plot or slop o' lot?
Or slow pilot
I say it like Lancelot.
Microslop is the new micropenis
Is there a large vehicle to compensate for microslop?
It's called a data center. You can generate so many compensators in one of those bad boys, driven or otherwise!
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2011 Ford F-250 with Windows Embedded Automotive
Someone called it Microslop Cope-a-lot, and I love that.
And then in a perfectly tone deaf manner, they rename Office as “Copilot app”
Yeah, last year I had noticed they replaced 'office.com' with a chat prompt. I went to open a document and suddenly it's asking me to chat with it.
So just for fun, I decided to see if I could actually use the chat to get the file open. Turns out, no, it couldn't deal with my files unless I separately found it and uploaded it.
The first and foremost UI for Office could not find my file on onedrive and open it. Not only is it putting the chat first in an app that had been for editing documents, it doesn't even facilitate working on the files.
Office has like the worst LLM integration of big things with LLM integration, and they've declared that to be the focus of the product...
It's utterly ridiculous. They're desperate to add AI everywhere since they've made huge investments without generating meaningful profit, so they have to at least pump up usage numbers so they can argue "it's a long-term investment" towards their shareholders.
That does make the most sense. A pretty common thing in those companies, 'bet the company' on some big brand/concept, then when it fails do rebranding of/bundling with more successful products and declare victory to your investors, collect your bonus and enjoy the money you get to keep when/if the chickens come home to roost. Ideally on the next executives tenure so you still get to blame them for messing up 'your vision'.
One of my favorite examples, IBM had Sam Palmisano declare a 'Roadmap 2015' and then immediately retired, claiming the hypothetical victory of his entirely made up projections, and blaming Ginni Romnetty for failing to deliver. See also their attempt to brand a whole lot of unrelated stuff 'Watson' in the wake of the jeopardy stunt, and their reclassifying basically all their hardware sales as 'cloud' to investors when nothing credible popped for them, and they just said 'anything that might be virtualization is cloud', even if it were the same exact virtualization they had been doing for decades...
This made me laugh so hard when I first saw it.
"They shot themselves in the foot and don't even know it"
I thought it was a joke for like a day, before I clicked on one of those threads.
"Microslop"? Love it! The new name I mean, not what they're doing. Going to spread this around among some people who don't social media for some good times.
LOL
Microslop: The Genocide Computing Company
In French, I like to call it "Microchiote", cause "chiote" is a familiar name for toilet.
And for "Windaube" cause "daube" mean (Slang) Something of poor quality.
Butlerian Jihad When?
It's good to see the old ways still being followed. We were calling them Microslop back when Windows ME released.
I.. don't think that's true. Google trends also confirms this is a new name invented now because of the word slop trending, but I welcome being proven wrong.
I remember we had lots of variations like Micro$oft, Microshaft, Microhard, Microshit, Microsloth, etc.
Ah yes, it was probably micro$loth
Maybe it was just my office.
Concur, 'slop' as a common word is pretty new.
We had the names for all the potentially frustating platforms, deserved or not. I recall:
- AIX (just pronounce as 'aches')
- PHUX
- Slowlaris
Concur, ‘slop’ as a common word is pretty new.
LMAO what? Slop has been a word in common usage for centuries.
In the context of being the go to word for low quality output for tech...
Pretty sure it was MicroSUX
Good. Just scrap that fucking system entirely. It will be more costly to fix that broken shit, than to start over fresh and propper.
Microslop Nopilot 364
I’m waiting for the SlopilotOS rebrand announcement.
I get the joke, but Macroslop would be more accurate