Microsoft account bugs locked me out of Notepad – Are thin clients ruining PCs?
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Re: Microsoft account bugs locked me out of Notepad – Are thin clients ruining PCs?
#2> I'm still a Windows guy, and I always will be.
And this is exactly why Microsoft can get away with a buggy mess of a user hostile operating system.
They only have an incentive to make a good OS if people are willing to leave when it’s a bad one.
Re: Microsoft account bugs locked me out of Notepad – Are thin clients ruining PCs?
#3> I couldn't open Notepad ... an error (0x803f8001) with Microsoft Store's licensing service stopped me
I wonder if it works at all with no online connection to that store.
Re: Microsoft account bugs locked me out of Notepad – Are thin clients ruining PCs?
#4> I couldn't open Notepad ... an error (0x803f8001) with Microsoft Store's licensing service stopped me
I wonder if it works at all when no online connection to that store.
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#5I only use my windows machine because I can swap out parts stuff and is more hackable but macos is so much more beautifully designed.
Sometimes I prefer one machine over the other I rarely wish for anything other than sometimes being unable to transfer data between the two systems.
Re: Microsoft account bugs locked me out of Notepad – Are thin clients ruining PCs?
#6Every horrible windows story is yet another glorious day for linux.
Fyi, in Mint if you search application for "notepad", "Text Editor" is the first result. That is curated search done right. Search for notepad on windows and you probably get an ad for a travel website.
Re: Microsoft account bugs locked me out of Notepad – Are thin clients ruining PCs?
#7The subscription to his own machine had bugs that prevented him from using a basic windowed text editor and that isn't the last straw?
Re: Microsoft account bugs locked me out of Notepad – Are thin clients ruining PCs?
#8Every horrible windows story is yet another glorious day for linux. Fyi, in Mint if you search application for "notepad", "Text Editor" is the first result. That is curated search done right. Search for notepad on windows and you probably get an ad for a travel website.
It just makes sense to show travel deals. Why would an OS show text editors when searching for text editors? Obviously it can show something far more lucrative by matching what it knows from spyware AI taking screenshots of your every action.
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#9To be clear, this is the horrible "new" Notepad "app" that I absolutely hated and instantly removed when it was forced upon everyone. I doubt the old "edit field in a wrapper" one which has been nearly the same since Win95 has this problem.
(My newest machine is now running Linux.)
Re: Microsoft account bugs locked me out of Notepad – Are thin clients ruining PCs?
#10I only use my windows machine because I can swap out parts stuff and is more hackable but macos is so much more beautifully designed. Sometimes I prefer one machine over the other I rarely wish for anything other than sometimes being unable to transfer data between the two systems.
> I only use my windows machine because I can swap out parts stuff and is more hackable but macos is so much more beautifully designed.
That's definitely a good reason to use a PC instead of a Mac, but why not run Linux on it? Then you'd get the best of both worlds.