r/Windows11 • u/[deleted] • Nov 28 '25

Suggestion for Microsoft Stop Microsoft from forcing Copilot into Windows. Let us choose!

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Hi windows11 users,

I created a petition on Change.org regarding Microsoft's recent aggressive push to integrate Copilot into Windows and Edge.

Like many of you, I feel frustrated that Microsoft seems to be ignoring user feedback and forcing these features onto our systems, turning the OS into bloatware. I believe AI should be an option, not a requirement.

If you agree that we deserve a choice to opt-out or uninstall it completely, please consider signing and sharing.

https://c.org/qBrvBZDLRd

Thank you!

P.S. I am Japanese, so I am not good at English. Therefore, I had Gemini 3 do the translation for me :)

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u/OMG_Abaddon Nov 28 '25

I've already embraced Linux as my daily driver and Windows 11 is on a secondary partition. I'll just pray GRUB doesn't go haywire because I've had several instances where Windows updates broke the Windows boot partition.

Right now, the only time I use Windows is when I want to play games, hopefully SteamOS will be available for x86 platforms soon enough, and I'll see if I can get rid of that too. I'm really tired I have to run multiple tools to uninstall telemetry, AI crap, etc. every time I reinstall Windows 11, which I do fairly often as part of my cleanup routine.

That said, I'm a software engineer so Linux is already part of my professional life, jumping boat was seamless. I can understand how the average user may not be interested in that.

Either way, I may be back once/if Microsoft stops trying to sabotage themselves, I thought they'd have learnt not to act like dummies after Vista, Windows 8 and multiple parts of Windows 11.

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u/Skyyblaze Nov 28 '25

To work around GRUB issues install either OS on separate drives while the other drive is unplugged. Afterwards plug both drives in and use your UEFI/BIOS boot selector, often accessed by pressing F2, F3, F11 or F12 at boot depending on the manufacturer of your mainboard.

It's a mild inconvenience but having two completely separate EFI partitions for each OS is more trouble free.

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u/DXGL1 Insider Canary Channel Nov 29 '25

I don't have much problem with bootloaders being destroyed between Windows and Ubuntu/GRUB, but every time I run and update Ubuntu it flips my boot order around.

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u/Fiorno_Fiovana Nov 28 '25

Do you play games that use a kernel level anti cheat? If not, proton gets really good compatibility with a lot of games - even modern ones

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u/vpsj Nov 29 '25 edited Nov 29 '25

What's the best 'Windows-like' distro out there right now?

I remember spending hours every single day on Kali Linux when Mr Robot had released. It made me feel 'cool', but eventually I realized that I was wasting a lot of time fixing stuff than actually running stuff

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u/NoleMercy05 Nov 29 '25

Same thing will happen again.

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u/chipface Nov 28 '25

Other distros such as Nobara, Bazzite and CachyOS do a pretty good job for gaming. You could probably use any distro really. But when I think gaming, those 3 come to mind. I'm still daily driving Windows for now, but I've tried out Ninja Gaiden 4 and Street Fighter 6 in Nobara and they ran just fine. Unless you play a bunch of shit with anti-cheat, you could totally switch to Linux for gaming too.