I just use restic to backup my home (to a local disk as well as weekly remote syncs). Then whenever I switch distros I just restore the files I want.

Linux has plenty of users who appreciate it for what it is, not how you can make it look and act like Windows. Linux doesn’t need those people.

Personally I’m tired of people telling disgruntled Windows users to switch to Linux.

Linux is not your backup plan, it’s not a “Windows alternative”. Yes, there are projects out there that try to make Linux easier for Windows users, and honestly they can fuck right off. Way too many people are trying to dumb down this incredibly powerful operating system to expand the market into the “gamers” and the “grannies who want to browse the web and send e-mail”.

Just… just stop.

As a web/devops dev, I 100% agree with your statement. I use GitHub Copilot in Neovim, Zed, Emacs, most of the time it just finishes my sentences or generates comments/docblocks/unit tests, I’m not using it to generate features.

On the flip side though, the company also went all in on Microsoft Copilot, and holy fuck it’s obnoxious trying to use Excel or Outlook with it shoving itself into your face every time you try to do something. And I have no way to disable it.