Completely enshittifying Notepad of all things is certainly a decision. Of course you have to be logged into a Microsoft account to produce these summaries, which I would assume are then used to train the AI or sell or some combination. I can’t wrap my head around why anyone needs this functionality in Notepad, though.

“Besides AI summaries, Microsoft is testing the ability to view your recently closed files in Notepad.”

Hah.

It’s highly suspect since they just announced they don’t know if they can continue operations, so idk if i’d trust it lol:

https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/irobot-sinks-after-annual-filing-has-going-concern-warning-1034472870

“The scam is believed to be the first cryptocurrency “rug-pull” to have been orchestrated with the help of a sitting president.”

And almost certainly not the last.

“Google refused to provide specifics about how its control of search supports national security.”

trust me, bro.

As far as flavors of Linux, I would honestly recommend using VirtualBox while on Windows. You can download a preconfigured VM of just about any Linux distro or download whatever iso you want and install in a VM. This gives you some freedom to play around and break things (and you probably will at least once) and get more familiar with the different desktop environments, software installation, command line, searching for how to do things etc.