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People complain that Linux is inconvenient but then prostrate themselves upon the broken, buggy, ad-infested spyware that is Windows. Doesn't seem very convenient to me. This person thought that their Notepad data was private before Copilot? Ha!
"convenient" ≠ "best option" or even "easiest option".
Linux is inconvenient because they would have to go out of their way to switch to it. Windows is convenient because it's right there and ready to go on essentially any computer.
And people dont care about "best" or "easiest" options because to most people a computer is just a means to an end.
All of the Copilot features in Notepad require manual interaction. When you click the button, there's a menu with options like "Rewrite", "Summarize", "Make shorter", "Make longer", etc., which either operate on the current selection or the entire document. How exactly that's implemented is obviously speculation, but most likely it will only send your data to Microsoft when you actually activate one of these functions. In fact, none of them even work without an active Copilot Plus subscription (I've tried). There is no free tier here, if try to use any of these features without a subscription, you'll just get prompted to sign up for one.
Also, the entire thing can be easily turned off from the settings panel.
Sadly most people grow up using and are tought Windows from the first time they touch a computer so its quirks and workarounds of bugs are engrained in the users mind.
Uprooting their entire (current) knowlegebase is inconvenient.. but it's still for the greater good of their privacy and in my opinion effectiveness of whatever they do.
The fundamental roadblock here is: people are generally done with 'learning' when they become adult. Not learning computers or software, or anything else in particular. Just learning. There seems to be a somewhat common idea that 'education' and 'learning' is for children, and as an adult, you should have better things to do. Sadly, we can see all around where such an idea leads us.
IMO usually a lot easier than learning Windows too. But I can understand them not knowing that if they've never tried. All they know about Linux is that it's nerdy and technical.