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Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings (www.cnet.com)
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"We set out to solve one of the most common frustrations we hear — finding and changing settings on your PC — using the power of AI agents," Navjot Virk, corporate vice president of Windows Experiences at Microsoft, said in a blog post on Tuesday. "An agent uses on-device AI to understand your intent and with your permission, automate and execute tasks."

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[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 6 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Can you imagine your grandparents trying to use Linux and then looking stuff up on their own and then doing something wrong because they don't know what distro they're on? Nightmare.

My mom is in no way technically inclined. Quite the opposite in fact. (She’s in her seventies, so it’s understandable.) She's been using Ubuntu since 2015. My dad used to try to switch her back to Windows once in a while, and she’d yell at him that she hated it, then he’d switch her back. My dad finally came around a couple years ago after getting a Steam Deck, and now he uses Fedora.

Funnily enough, since Ubuntu and Fedora both use Gnome, they have the same interface. I also use Fedora and Bazzite. All of these OSes use Gnome. They all have the same interface (when Bazzite is in Desktop Mode).

So, really, I don’t know what you’re on about.