Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders

Re:Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with acc... by bayindirh on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @03:05AM (#45962563)

Yes. Since 199x.

macOS does the same thing. When I actually sleep, when my laptop's lid is closed. I wake up. My Mac wants a password instead of a fingerprint. It says it has updated the OS when I was snoring. What's the difference?

Every app, every window, everything is the way I left before closing the lid. My computer is updated, rebooted and ready for the day. Like nothing happened.

Linux is the same deal. If the desktop environment is upgraded a logout and login is necessary (and KDE restores session as well as macOS for the last decade, at least), and if I updated the kernel, I reboot. I'm back in 30 seconds, to the exact point that I left.

Only Windows takes 2 hours, 4 reboots, 3 blood sacrifices and countless frustration sounds to upgrade. While saturating the processor and the storage subsystem at the same time, which makes my computer create the same sounds of the said blood sacrifices.

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Re:Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with acc... by jpalawaga on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @07:54AM (#45965057)

My experience with Mac is iterm prevents Mac from shutting down so instead some days I wake up and everything on my machine has been closed and the update hasn’t been performed. Lovely.

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Re:Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with acc... by bayindirh on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @08:14AM (#45965324)

I don't use iTerm, and close everything that I don't use for the night, which is a habit I have since the beginning of time.

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