I bought a copilot laptop recently, its just a regular laptop. The only difference is it has a copilot key on it. Microsoft is terrible at marketing, among many other things.
I also just got one, don’t know what was installed on it before as I immediately installed Linux, but I now use that key to toggle fullscreen mode on virtual box. I have to use some Microsoft applications for work so I have a windows VM. If they didn’t shove all this A”I” stuff down your throat and take away your control over your device so that they can spy on you then I’d probably still be using Windows for everything.
The useless Windows key has been free advertising on every keyboard made for the past 30 years.
The windows key isnt useless? I use it all the time for keyboard shortcuts.
If it wasn’t there you’d use a different key combo. It was created for marketing. It’s purpose was to launch the Windows start menu. In 40 years everyone will think the Copilot key is useful because they use combos like you use the Windows key. But it’s actually there to keep everyone thinking of Copilot forever, even if you use Linux.
The windows key was copying the cmd button from apple. And the cmd key was a copy of the super key from unix systems.
So, sure its marketing to slap the windows logo on it…
No, that’s the Alt key. Windows had Mac equivalents using the Alt key. When the Win key was introduced, every key combo had an Alt key equivalent because not everyone had a keyboard with the Win Key.
Mac ‘alt’ key is the Option key.
The alt key functions similar to the ‘Meta’ key from unix systems.
I bought an Asus zephyr laptop recently. Then I installed fedora on it.
Can you rebind it to something useful? Like opening Firefox
The only thing Microsoft’s been empowering is enshittification
What about Satya Nadella’s pockets?
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a post from someone who wants this. Yes, there are use cases for AI, but i haven’t heard anyone say they like it integrated into every fucking thing.
*everyone disagrees
I’ve got a Lenovo with an NPU in it and I swear to god no program fucking uses it besides the built in Windows stuff.
Almost none of the “AI” shit on the store uses the NPU.
I still love it because it replaced a 10 year old Surface Pro 3, and its fast and has an OLED screen that fucks hard.
Meh, I wouldn’t mind a NPU in my laptop - Chugging tokens on a i3 with only two power cores is a chore.
I would mind a Windows laptop though and I’ve not seen rave reviews about how well Ollama on linux utilises NPU’s yet so I’ll just wait for now. I’d expect the smarties have found other ways to utilise the extra processing power by the time there’s full linux support as well.
It’s actually difficult to find software that supports it, assuming you’re not using Copilot. Ollama on my NPU enabled laptop doesn’t even try to use it, and even if it did, performance might suffer anyway.
Thanks for an actual user confirmation. No NPU for Ollama. Yet. And that’s part of my point, it’s not there yet but maybe some day. I’m pretty convinced. Also people will figure out other ways of using it - Like computational stuff n shit.
