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God, the number of panicked IT support calls I got over that particular phrasing. It was quite the month.
Let me try guessing it... most people thought it was some kind of ransomware smiling at them?
Tell HN: Windows 10 might have tricked you into using a online account
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Re: Tell HN: Windows 10 might have tricked you into using a online account
#82This definitely happened to me a while ago. I'm not that upset about it, except that I spent some time changing all my local accounts from "jon" to "jrockway", and signing in with my email address made my local account "jon". Now when I ssh places, I have to supply -l or properly add an entry to ~/.ssh/config because this is the only account I have that's not named "jrockway". All in all, this reduces the enjoyment i…
You can add a wildcard entry (Host *) with the username to your ssh config. That will make it the default (can still be overridden by host-specific settings).
Re: Tell HN: Windows 10 might have tricked you into using a online account
#83This definitely happened to me a while ago. I'm not that upset about it, except that I spent some time changing all my local accounts from "jon" to "jrockway", and signing in with my email address made my local account "jon". Now when I ssh places, I have to supply -l or properly add an entry to ~/.ssh/config because this is the only account I have that's not named "jrockway". All in all, this reduces the enjoyment i…
Given that some Microsoft employees no doubt frequent this forum, I hope they see and address this issue. Something like an advanced checkbox to customize the local account’s username. Maybe also having a default local user account name tied to the online account for any new machines set up with the online account.
Re: Tell HN: Windows 10 might have tricked you into using a online account
#84It's crazy that this ever was considered...
Re: Tell HN: Windows 10 might have tricked you into using a online account
#85This definitely happened to me a while ago. I'm not that upset about it, except that I spent some time changing all my local accounts from "jon" to "jrockway", and signing in with my email address made my local account "jon". Now when I ssh places, I have to supply -l or properly add an entry to ~/.ssh/config because this is the only account I have that's not named "jrockway". All in all, this reduces the enjoyment i…
Re: Tell HN: Windows 10 might have tricked you into using a online account
#86You have to be disconnected from wifi and Ethernet to be offered the option of a local account. This was removed in 11.
Coincidentally, that's why I am not using win11, despite all its improvements over win10. (The one i miss most is GUI support in WSL )
Re: Tell HN: Windows 10 might have tricked you into using a online account
#87Re: Tell HN: Windows 10 might have tricked you into using a online account
#88This definitely happened to me a while ago. I'm not that upset about it, except that I spent some time changing all my local accounts from "jon" to "jrockway", and signing in with my email address made my local account "jon". Now when I ssh places, I have to supply -l or properly add an entry to ~/.ssh/config because this is the only account I have that's not named "jrockway". All in all, this reduces the enjoyment i…
Did it switch you magically or something? I actually don't mind the microsoft account integration but I also have a name issue. Microsoft will name my account the equivilent "jons" instead of "jsmith" but all my ssh logins are the latter. I just make an offline account first and then change my account to a microsoft one in user settings and it seems to keep the first name.
Re: Tell HN: Windows 10 might have tricked you into using a online account
#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
Coincidentally, that's why I am not using win11, despite all its improvements over win10. (The one i miss most is GUI support in WSL )
That actually shipped to Windows 10: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/the-windows-subsy...
On win11 it seems to work fine.
Re: Tell HN: Windows 10 might have tricked you into using a online account
#90I do not remember exact details, but at some point there was a prompt to log in or create an MS account, and I needed to go back a step for the local account option to appear.
I think Windows 10 was similar but it has been a long time since my last installation.