Microsoft is working on a new project labeled Windows ‘K2’, intent on removing bloatware, reducing AI, and optimizing Windows 11 for gaming, with three focuses of ‘performance, craft, and reliability’.
the issue is not about performance, is about enshitification. I mean, do we need TPM? do we need Microslop account to login our pc/laptop? do they really need to shove Copilot into Windows?
I like how back in the day Gabe proposed to MS to invest into gaming on PC, got ignored, left company to chase this venture of his own. Which leads us to today as Gabe is about to drop a gaming-OS nuke on the market that will finally shaken (or hopefully shatter to pieces) MS’s gaming OS monopoly.
Love to see MS giving out promises to users way before Steam Machine drops. They are clearly scared shitless.
Strip out all tracking, anti-competitive anti consumerist features, remove all AI, make it secure and with all of the extra and fancy features opt-in.
Literally just make a decent, respectable operating system, and you will win. This is how you win at literally anything right now. Just make it durable and private and secure and not extremely expensive and make sure it WORKS, and people will suck your dick from across the planet.
NOBODY WANTS AI OR MICROTRANSACTIONS OR TO BE PUSHED AROUND OR CONNED, YET THAT’S ALL ANYBODY IS DOING - THE POSITION OF NOT A PIECE OF SHIT IS LITERALLY UP FOR GRABS, YOU JUST NEED TO REACH OUT AND TAKE IT.
Hilarious. Nobody goes through the trouble of achieving multiple monopolies just to give people what they want.
Yeah, it’s starting to look as though their monopoly is not as secure as they’d assumed, so they might bend a bit, for a while.
That almost never works. By the time a monopoly starts to crumble the rot is systemic. In this case, every single internal stakeholder at MS is going to sabotage the project as soon as someone tells them their baby cant use 3GB of ram and track every mouse click the user makes while it forces flashing ads onto the screen.
Even if they did all this, it’s still Microslop, the next rugpull is just right around the corner. I’ll never go back, i don’t care how much better they make their spyware delivery system.
I hope they don’t do all of this. I just want them to lose you know.
Also don’t be fucking insane or evil? I feel like that doesn’t need to be said, but it 100% does, apparently.
They already have a Linux distro, they could make that the default kernel and reach parity tomorrow.
What a fucking joke. Microsoft lost the moment to pedal back a while ago. The damage is done.
My hopes are it crashes and burns. I have my hopes up.
lol comical, the OS is not one feature deployment from being magically fixed. It’s an easy decade away at the pace that Microsoft updates. Sorry but it will never happen. Windows computer OS is sunset like it’s Phone OS Its not luxury, the rich buy Apple, its not secure and free, that’s Linux, its not good for gaming, that’s now Linux. Whats left? Business ? Thats eroding fast!
I really want to see more GNI/Linux and Tux GIF’s/Images made to see out in the wild like this
If you made this you are a goat!
There you are, racking up multi kills, bonus points are pouring in. The map is yours and you are about to push the score back in favour of your team…
When all of a sudden
“DO YOU WANT TO TURN ON STICKY KEYS? PWEASE LOGIN TO ONEDRIVE TO ACTIVATE YOUR 365 COPILOT ACCOUNT SUBSCRIPTION. ACTIVATING BITLOCKER LOCKDOWN.”
Microsoft is reportedly looking at Valve’s SteamOS as the benchmark for gaming
Yeah, that’s Linux
Valve’s SteamOS continues to show significant advantages over Windows 11 for gamers, with better memory utilization and improved in-game performance, but Microsoft has a plan to combat that.
Let that sink in for a second. Linux with a not-an-emulation layer API runs Microsoft Windows games faster than Microsoft Windows, and so now Microsoft is scrambling to get windows at least as efficient again as Linux in running Windows products.
Anyone ever trusting Microsoft again is a dumbass fool
We really need more alternative private non-stock unionized companies in USA made to go against Big Tech
That’s really what it comes down to. Better alternatives across the board
Yes. If the community can win this hard ad-hoc, imagine the glory of buying from a dedicated employee owned vendor that provides a full stack solution with a support contract.
There’s nothing (legal) the enshitifiers could counter with.
And even when they go full illegal (and they always do), there’s more of us common folks who want a good product and a fair wage, than there are of them (exploiters).
Rather than a dedicated release (or update) for Windows 11, project K2 is Microsoft’s effort to maintain high quality across current and future versions of the OS, prioritizing consistency, and ultimately win back the trust of users.
This reads as a big nothing. So they’re going to focus on making quality software now? Can I ask where that ranked on their priority list prior and where does it rank with ‘project K2’? Something tells me it’s somewhere in the double digits still. But it’s an ‘effort’ now!
They’ll either never do it, or do it for a year or so then go back to being pieces of shit.
Also expect this:
“hey windows is better”
yeah? Is it this good?
“well, no, but…”
This has been their MO for time immemorial. Make windows shit, right up to the line where people will leave. Only discover where the line actually is after they’ve stepped over it, then backpedal just enough to stem the exodus and keep people locked in. Repeat.
This is such a huge W for linux. It legitimizes linux as a real competitor in so many eyes.
That’s because it is a legitimate competitor. It’s the freedom OS, and only way for the world to escape Americas big tech fascism.
Yeah I know I’ve been using it for gaming for years. But when I say linux is good people might brush it off because oh you would say that as a linux user. But im highlighting that Microsoft saying this legitimizes Linux in a completely different way. It legitimizes it for all the people that see Windows as the best OS the people outside the linux bubble.
There is no greater force in the world than how glass half full Linux users can be, makes me so proud.
Then they fight you.
Bring it on
That was a solid ad
Get rid of telemetry, ads, AI, and the MS account requirement for a start.
I don’t even care what they do at this point, they’ve proved themselves to be so incompetent that I have no desire to go back to windows.
should just use the Linux kernel and pit their version of the desktop on top of that.
The only value windows has is that it runs software made by companies that are too lazy to add another build target
I’m imagining Microsoft taking it all the way and when you buy a Win13 license key, it basically installs a custom theme in KDE Plasma or maybe Cinnamon.
It might be worse for their profits long term than sticking with their locked down bullshit, but it’s kind of funny to think that they would first make billions of dollars of sales on their linux distro.
