With its new watches’ “Audio Intelligence,” “Live Rewind,” and “Siri Recap” features, the company is straddling the line between accessibility and utility on one side and what starts to feel like invasive technology on the other.
“Siri Recap,” uses ambient listening to “take high-level notes” of your conversations, which can be reviewed in the Siri iOS app. These notes will automatically generate a title, summary, and key points based on what was recorded and summarized by AI.
I had the same experience long time ago: attempted to install, failed in figuring out how to mount a hard dive and gave up. Last year i tried linux mint, loved it. Easy transition, minimal learning curve.
Ive also found that if i had issues with windows the error messages were crap ans the web was filled with garbage advice. On linux, i find whenever i want to do something the support is better, advice is clearer and when you need it there is much more clarity on what is working or not working.
Grab yourself a usb stick, get your linux distribution of choice on it. Most distributions allow you to boot your machine from the stick to try out linux with zero impact on your existing machine. You can check ifndisplay, sound etc works and if you like the feel of it. If you do, install is a few clicks away using the same stick.
Ah, nice idea! I do have a 128gb stick laying around that I haven’t used yet.
So, you’re happy with “Mint”?
Mint is also the one I use (Mint MATE specifically), and it rules. The learning curve is very manageable.
Very happy with it. To the extent that although part of me is interested in experimenting with other distributions, mint just works and everything is in the places i naturally look so motivation is lacking.
My desktop machine is dual boot: Mint and Win11 (windows rarely used but there if i need it), while my laptop, and the one i got my son for his studies both run Mint exclusively. It does a fantastic job on those lenovo machines.
Also had mint running an HTPC, but have since repurposed that machine as a server and used Ubuntu server os for that. Would not have felt like i could do that without using linux mint.
Mint - Cinnamon sounds promising from what I gather, so I’ll see if I can get that working on the stick. If you feel like linking me to some starter site, feel free, otherwise I’ll just search something up…
Everything you need should be here: https://www.linuxmint.com/ You might also take a look here: https://linuxvox.com/blog/linux-mint-setup/
Since you mention cinnamon, worth noting that Linux can (but you dont have to) separately choose the underlying operating system and the desktop environment.
Cinnamon is the desktop environment that is default with Linux Mint so thats what you’d be exoected to boot into by default.
Also bundled is a software manager - think of it like an appstore without bullshirt. 😉
You can also get software from the web, just sarch up the developer as you would have for windows. Linux Mint is based on Ubuntu, so if you’re presented with different versions of linux software, get for the ubuntu/debian option if mint isnt listed explicitly.
You might also see a choice between AMD x64 vs ARM. If you’re running a typical pc and not a tablet, its AMD x64. It refers to the cpu architecture so you sill want that even if you have an intel cpu (that one confused me till someone kindly explained that).
Feel fee to message me if confused by something. Not an expert but will try to help.
Hope you like it and can free yourself from microslop (or a least loosen the shackles a bit)
All power to the User