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Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything

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Re: Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything

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Post by abeyer »

tgsovlerkhgsel wrote: post #27
johnea wrote: post #4

It does make me wonder why people keep running this OS...

Because when I want to play a game, I want to play a game, not debug someone's hacky attempt to make it work on Linux. Implementing a strict "no fiddly shit on my game machine" policy was one of the best choices for my mental health that I've made: It's a dedicated machine for gaming, with nothing really sensitive on it aside from gaming related accounts, and its only purpose is to play games with the least amount of…

Implementing a strict "no games on my no fiddly shit machine" policy was one of the best choices for my mental health that I've made

Windows can be just as bad, I'm quite happy to restrict my games choice a bit to run them on a console that someone else makes work.

Re: Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything

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Post by iamnothere »

xg15 wrote: post #6

> "To avoid the next problem: 'Microsoft locked my data behind bitlocker, and now I can't get it back.' they need to store that key on the MS account." Doesn't that make the account requirement even more scary? So now if MS decides for some reason to lock my account, this will make even the data I have on my local disks inaccessible as well?

I don’t see what the problem is. Just don’t get into any business that MS considers shady, or disparage the company publicly, or piss off an executive, or get sanctioned because your work with the UN is at cross purposes with the current US administration.

Re: Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything

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Post by password4321 »

I was in a hurry trying to log into my kid's Minecraft account, wound up clicking something to associate it with the Windows account... now the PC is in restricted mode and I'm having a hard time restoring the previously associated Microsoft account (among other things, have to ask permission to open the browser and approve the requests logging in on my phone)!

Everything online says to use the option to switch to a Windows account but I am pretty sure it is not available anymore.

Re: Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything

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Post by tredre3 »

jmclnx wrote: post #3

If only Windows users fully understood why M/S wants you to create an account, people would leave en-masse. The ID along with their telemetry, M/S can map you to what you do and from where. That pretty much makes their builtin disk encryption useless.

> That pretty much makes their builtin disk encryption useless.

Does the encryption keep the user's data safe if the device is lost or stolen? Yes? Then it fulfills its main purpose.

Re: Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything

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Post by denkmoon »

tgsovlerkhgsel wrote: post #27
johnea wrote: post #4

It does make me wonder why people keep running this OS...

Because when I want to play a game, I want to play a game, not debug someone's hacky attempt to make it work on Linux. Implementing a strict "no fiddly shit on my game machine" policy was one of the best choices for my mental health that I've made: It's a dedicated machine for gaming, with nothing really sensitive on it aside from gaming related accounts, and its only purpose is to play games with the least amount of…

FWIW, with minor exception, Linux is better at "no fiddly shit on my game machine" now. I feel strongly about this too, to come home from work and debug some shit going wrong on my gaming system is no bueno, I'd rather just not play games. It has to work without fucking around.

Windows is now the OS that fucks with me and causes grief, since moving to cachyos the experience has been so bloody blissful it's not funny. I can, amazingly, just come home and launch a game and play the game and not deal with bullshit like taking 30 minutes to install some random update. Nothing randomly breaks. Nothing updates unless I let it. Nothing randomly pops up asking me to do some bullshit I'm not interested in for a result I don't care about. etc.

Re: Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything

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Post by bigyabai »

Cider9986 wrote: post #12
h4kunamata wrote: post #11

Yet they use it, they do not really care, they even install Windows games that requires kernel level spyware read anti-cheat. There are Linux distros that are newbie friendly and looks like Windows. An end user that does not depend on Adobe, if you are still using that for whatever reason, they have no excuse to don't move to Linux distro OS.

People don't know about the stuff you're describing. They use the OS that comes with their PC or is the one everyone else uses.

Ignorance isn't a good excuse. If you do backbreaking work in the worst shoes and complain about your foot hurting, you might want to start shoe shopping.

Re: Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything

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Post by tupac_speedrap »

notavalleyman wrote: post #33
anorphirith wrote: post #2

they also force you to give a recovery account. i’m thinking microsoft’s hands are tied in this matter, it might be the government forcing a kyc strategy

Which government? And what's your evidence

It's an open secret that Windows is backdoored for the NSA to be fair and that isn't even including the truly dodgy stuff like Intel Management Engine being a backdoor on a BIOS level with remote access
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