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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 amlib »

BobbyTables2 wrote: post #51
johnea wrote: post #4

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

Try doing a full screen rdp session from Linux at 4K resolution. The lag will be with you. VNC won’t be any better. He’ll, even some YouTube videos are overly taxing from Firefox in Linux. Also Stream seems to think Windows is more equal than Linux…

> Try doing a full screen rdp session from Linux at 4K resolution.

You should be using Sunshine/Moonlight for that anyway. You will get ultra smooth low latency 4k@120fps streaming to and from linux.

I regularly play games streamed from my noisy big linux pc all the way across to the living room linux pc. It's brilliant.

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

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Post by ivell »

bleh wrote: post #64
password4321 wrote: post #34

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…

Good luck. I lost access to 3 of my 5 Minecraft licenses due to Microsoft login, and I’ll never forgive Microsoft for it.

Same here. That's when I switched my kids' machines to Linux. That was just 2 months back.

And was Windows 11 bug free, no. Was it easier to use, no. Absolutely irritating OS.

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

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Post by sharts »

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…

Do VMS not work for this?

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

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Post by Animats »

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.

This may be changing in Europe. Entire governments are fed up with Microsoft.

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

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Post by freediddy »

I was forced to switch to Windows 11 despite promising myself that I would never do this.

WHY THE FUCK CAN'T I INCREASE THE WIDTH OF THE TASKBAR? I have a 30" monitor, I can afford to have 3 or 4 rows of windows in my task bar. But I can't, not because it's technically feasible but because a human at Microsoft that believes they are more important than their customers made a decision to remove that option because they think they know better.

Whoever you are, I hate you.

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

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Post by SXX »

iamnothere wrote: post #32
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.

Or anything that random LLM might consider shady...

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

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Post by pluralmonad »

hurtigioll wrote: post #78
superkuh wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Very much so. And it's even more scary that MS uses dark patterns to trick older non-technical users into enabling MS online accounts. When the bitlocker activation automatically happens during tricking the user into going from a local account to online account it is without the user's consent or real participation. They don't print out a copy of the key or move it to a usb drive becuase they aren't aware their drive…

it does look sketchy, but microsoft used aka.ms since forever, especially for short links to various SDKs (aka.ms/pwsh7)

The actual URL was the least sketchy part of that story.
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