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Re: Tell HN: Windows 10 might have tricked you into using a online account

#101
To anyone looking for this, you have this option to remove all Microsoft spyware crap while creating bootable usb with Rufus.

Now a days Linux got so good, I just boot into windows for playing games. What would be the law if it’s a person and not the most profitable company doing this to a person!

Re: Tell HN: Windows 10 might have tricked you into using a online account

#102

To anyone looking for this, you have this option to remove all Microsoft spyware crap while creating bootable usb with Rufus. Now a days Linux got so good, I just boot into windows for playing games. What would be the law if it’s a person and not the most profitable company doing this to a person!

> To anyone looking for this, you have this option to remove all Microsoft spyware crap while creating bootable usb with Rufus.

Rufus just burns the image to usb, where is this option to remove the bloatware

Re: Tell HN: Windows 10 might have tricked you into using a online account

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post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That actually shipped to Windows 10: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/the-windows-subsy...

WSL GUI has been "available" in win10 for over a year now, but doesn't seem to work outside the insider program. On win11 it seems to work fine.

Right, and last November it hit general availability. You don’t need to be running an Insiders build of Windows 10 any more. That was the announcement I linked.

It shipped via the Microsoft Store, so you have to specifically install it, but it works fine on a fully updated non-Insiders Windows 10.

Re: Tell HN: Windows 10 might have tricked you into using a online account

#104

To anyone looking for this, you have this option to remove all Microsoft spyware crap while creating bootable usb with Rufus. Now a days Linux got so good, I just boot into windows for playing games. What would be the law if it’s a person and not the most profitable company doing this to a person!

> To anyone looking for this, you have this option to remove all Microsoft spyware crap while creating bootable usb with Rufus. Rufus just burns the image to usb, where is this option to remove the bloatware

Check the latest version. You’ll get options to remove (auto disable) all of “privacy toggles” during setup and to auto add local account same as host system (and remove data and online account restrictions) once you click to start flash

Re: Tell HN: Windows 10 might have tricked you into using a online account

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I use Windows 11 Professional and was able to install using a local account while connected to WiFi.

If you know what the UI looked like while you accomplished this, that would be useful. I've had to reach back behind the machine, unplug the ethernet, and reboot to get it to realize I'm just trying to setup a spare machine for visitors.

If you tell it it's going to connect to a domain, it will let you make a local account. This, of course, requires Pro or better.

Re: Tell HN: Windows 10 might have tricked you into using a online account

#106

Windows 11 latest installer doesn't even present the option to use a local account. However, the mechanism to bypass this is to enter in a fake Microsoft Login ID and then wait for it to fail, then select something like "Other Options" at the dialog that comes up and then there's an option to use a local account. I think you can also install without internet and you'll get the local account option too, but I have not…

Indeed. Took me a while to find route around. These issues are forcing me off Microsoft products in general. What a pain, and a betrayal of long-time customers. Interfering with peeps going offline is interfering with security.

Re: Tell HN: Windows 10 might have tricked you into using a online account

#108

Microsoft doing shady shit? Color me surprised. I'm glad I've ditched Microsoft's ecosystem. I use Linux now.

well, yes, but they bought Pöttering and afaik he still works on systemd

> they bought Pöttering and afaik he still works on systemd

systemd is a monster that I don't like. Its documentation is obtuse and unwieldy. I even created a website [0] specifically for me to remember specific things about systemd that it doesn't document well.

[0]: https://systemd.software/

Re: Tell HN: Windows 10 might have tricked you into using a online account

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post #30

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I think the “files are where you left them” dialogue is meant to assuage the concerns of people who just did a big OS upgrade and are a bit anxious about it all. It’s still a pretty poorly thought out dialogue, though.

You know what reassures me that nothing has gone wrong? When unexpectedly I am greeted with big white text insisting everything is okay. Imagine if you got a letter through the post out of the blue saying "You don't have cancer." I can only imagine how I would probably suddenly be a lot more worried about having cancer than before having gotten that letter. Whoever came up with that idiotic dialogue is unhinged and d…

Don't worry your kidneys are where you left them!
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