Microsoft keeps insisting that it’s deeply committed to the quality of Windows 11

"Reducing unnecessary Copilot entry points" is one of Microsoft's action items.

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[DuvJones]

We'll see what Microsoft ends up doing over the next few months, because Windows 11... it's weird. I enjoy the operating system if not for the multitude of paper cuts that it has (like how it seems to always reset the theme for my background when using virtual desktops), and the need to stuff Copilot into everything. In many ways, the problem I find with Windows 11 is that it tries being way too clever by half, which isn't so much an issue with Windows 11 than it is an issue with the way that Microsoft develops software. That being said I've pretty much become a committed Fedora Linux user, so my interaction with the Windows side of my partition is pretty limited.

 

[DuvJones]

ReactOS gets almost no attention or mention in these threads.

To be fair it's still very alpha software. While they're making heady progress, but they're always going to be somewhat limited because they are tracking NT kernels and Windows... which means that the projects always going to be somewhat defined by what Microsoft ends up doing and any comparison is simply going to fall short simply because they don't have the manpower that Microsoft has.

To put it into perspective, Haiku OS, which has been a beta state for years... is a much more stable place with as much if not less people working on that.

One way to calm down the Copilot (stuff) is to use trailing edge technology, it seems.

I'll be honest I spend most of my time ripping that out of the install (where it's not integrated into a piece of software I'm using) and nothing seems to have gone horribly wrong.