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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 literallywho »

_carbyau_ wrote: post #142
xigoi wrote: post #134

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If your game is on Steam and does not use creepy “anticheat” software, you can probably just play it on Linux.

I have that one linux friend who is always recompiling shaders every game update. It's only 5 minutes, but's it's every game update which can be lot. I'm waiting for that to go away before I consider the jump. I figure there'll be enough people sick of that behaviour it'll get sorted.

Go away? I've been replaying Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory (2005) and it recompiles the shaders even on alt-tab (to clarify that feature has been there always since release). It's more on the developers to fix. After all, not even Windows games on winodws are free from shader stutter (with less ways to fix it than linux!)

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

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Post by cm2187 »

tommica wrote: post #136
cm2187 wrote: post #119

I enjoy windows 10 hugely now that it is out of support. It became way better when microsoft started tormenting the users of win11 instead of win10, and now that windows update doesn't bring new catastrophes and unexpected reboot, the OS is finally not interfering with usage anymore.

You are not worried about 0-days and other malware?

The computer is not exposed to the WAN (behind a firewall), the main way it could get infected is via a vulnerability in a browser, but these do get updated. And OS updates don't really protect you from malware in executables you install anyway.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

tenderfault wrote: post #170

I switched to Windows 10 as my main development machine few years ago after 25 years of continuously crashing Linux with an enormous pleasure. FreeBSD, well, there's nothing to crash there, that's the problem with it. Nothing. I didn't know almost anything about this Windows OS so I just started playing some sort of whac-a-mole game with it. I don't know what I did but right now I'm a happy (windows 11) user. I use H…

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

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Post by BallyBrain »

sviruz wrote: post #169
tommica wrote: post #136

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You are not worried about 0-days and other malware?

Running Windows 10 Enterprise IoT LTSC still gives you updates until 2031 with the added benefit of no app store. I run it as my main OS since last October and have yet to encounter any issues.

I thought it was 2032. I use IoT LTSC as well and I can second that this is a great OS and everything runs without issue.

I would add that I've also used Windows 11 IoT LTSC and that experience is very similar to Windows 10 IoT LTSC.

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

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Post by zuhsetaqi »

deepsun wrote: post #173

Don't MacOS users all have apple.com accounts? I hear no complains though. BTW, where do I create an account to for my Linux?

They might have all an Apple Account but thats not a requirement at all on macOS. Thats the difference between complaining customers and customers thatuse it because thez choose to use it.

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

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Post by pjmlp »

Agentlien wrote: post #66
esalman wrote: post #44

I have used a Windows OS almost every day of my life since 1999 or so. Last December I had a choice and switched to MacOS for work laptop. Since then I seldom use Windows and I don't really regret. I still use an Xbox almost every day so there's that. In the last couple of weeks there's been some good news coming through for Xbox so we'll see.

What news are you referring to? The only news about Xbox I've caught is that it's declining in profit because they removed Xbox exclusives.

Asha is doing some good decisions, or it seemed so until the XBOX Reset blog post.

However beyond XBOX, Microsoft is one of the biggest publishers as per amount of owned studios especially since ABK acquisition, so even when XBOX is doing bad, Microsoft Publishing is doing great.

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

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Post by hyperhello »

bluecalm wrote: post #146
bee_rider wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The actual average user is fine. The problem is most companies seem design for some hypothetical average user, who they hate and/or think is a dumbass.

I've dealt with users for a few years. Those were already selected to be a bit more technical than your average person because of a niche I am in. I can tell you an average user is in fact a dumbass.. Vast majority doesn't understand concepts like files. People have all kind of crap on their computers as they randomly click around and download everything. They save information in the downloads folder and complain it…

Reading this feels like a calculator manufacturer trying to explain why it doesn’t matter that the calculators don’t do every operation exactly right.

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

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Post by etdznots »

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…

I’ve long ago learned to ignore people that pretend that the system they use just works, go look at any mac user or windows users workflow, for most people there are dozens of hacky BS things they do to work around the inherent problems of the system they’re using they (naturally) just make excuses for their existing tools ignoring all of the workarounds and arcane knowledge they’ve accumulated while acutely feeling the pain of any new arcana that they have to learn for a new system.
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