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2024: The Year Linux Dethrones Windows on the Desktop – Are You Ready? (lemmy.ca)

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NTSync coming in Kernel 6.11 for better Wine/Proton game performance and porting.
Wine-Wayland last 4/5 parts left to be merged before end of 2024
Wayland HDR/Game color protocol will be finished before end of 2024
Nvidia 555/560 will be out for a perfect no stutter Nvidia performance
KDE/Gnome reaching stability and usability with NO FKN ADS
VR being usable
More Wine development and more Games being ported
Better LibreOffice/Word compatibility
Windows 10 coming to EOL
Improved Linux simplicity and support
Web-native apps (Including Msft Office and Adobe)
.Net cross platform (in VSCode or Jetbrains Rider)

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (2 children)

You forgot "Recall".

I wanted to make a wordplay here, but I couldn't find one.

Anyway, a lot of people are worried about the OS remembering everything you are doing like it's taking screenshots all the time.

For my part, that would be a big no-no.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Recall does things that weirdly, a malware would have done back in the day.

[+] [email protected] -8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

it's currently opt-in rather than opt-out, fully on-device and won't work on devices with weak NPUs (or on any which completely lack it)
unless it changes in the future it's not that bad at the moment tbh

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Of course it's on-device. Microsoft is doing all the processing on people's PCs, rather than their own servers, where they'd have to pay for that computation.

Data still gets reported to MS afterwards.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It must communicate with Microsoft in a way, just by the fact the "AI" must not "hallucinates" by suggesting the user to jump from a bridge or to add Glue in his pizza...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

What is the bridge jumping bit about?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

"On-device" has to be a half-true at best. I'm having a hard time believing that the NPUs on these new ARM chips are powerful enough for it to be fully on-device. Even more-so with "approved" x86 chips. There has to be some data sharing between the client and server, similar to how Rabbit does their shit.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Look up TPUs, like a coral tensor. Extremely efficient at machine learning, only, and cheap. If NPUs use anything like a TPU, then it absolutely can do local "AI." Then once the heavy lifting is done, then I'd imagine all that data is uploaded.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

...until a botched update or a bug sends everything to the cloud, MS makes an about face saying oops my bad, then say it was fixed.