It's not a right. It's a responsibility.

I think framing it from the other side makes the whole idea a lot more palatable.

If I work hard to create clean drinking water from dirty, it is not your right to take it from me. It is my responsibility to help a fellow human being.

its missing sudo

It makes more sense if you replace the person buying with "company" and replace "local user" with "employee".

There was a brief time when everyone was trying Bing to see the new copilot feature for themselves.

I didn't install a login manager. I login to console and run startplasma-wayland if I want a gui.

I'm not sure I'm missing anything.

Ability to run a session remotely.

lol, sounds like you've got extra something

It's not going to get any better. Microsoft's problem is tech debt. Copilot doesn't pay tech debt it creates it. It will only get worse faster.

Microsoft probably has a problem with tech debt, yes. That is however not the problem. Instead, the product strategy is. And it was bad even before LLMs.

Windows is under 10% of their revenue these days. It’s simply not important to leadership. Just like Xbox - just let it slowly die as you squeeze any last remaining cents out

Windows is a small part of their revenue on purpose, because the OS monopoly enables them to sell and push a lot of their other revenue streams. Windows has always been easy to pirate for the same reason.

But make no mistake, it is very important for Microsoft and leadership, or they wouldn't keep updating it so much and talking about it so much on their keynotes and marketing.

Nah, they have a good strategy. In fact, they have all the strategies.

This is true. The constantly changing strategy is what left the wave of debt behind it.

Arch is really good. Between Wine, Proton, and QEMU/KVM there isn't any need for me to boot windows anymore

The amount of software needed and the amount being written are off many orders of magnitude. It has been that way since software's inception and I don't see it changing anytime soon. AI tools are like having a jr dev to do your grunt work. Soon it will be like a senior dev. Then like a dev team. I would love to have an entire dev team to do my work. It doesn't change the fact that I still have plenty of work for them to do. I'm not worried AI will take my job I will just be doing bigger jobs.

Yes, I immediately see the need for the opposite - perfect, accurate, proven bug free software. As long as there is AI there will be AI slop.

Well, there is no perfect, accurate, proven bug free software even before AI. Maybe the problem is not AI but economical incentives and lack of care.

The use of the words "perfect" and "proven" is perhaps a bit misplaced here, but accountability is a real question.