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Windows 11 Pro will soon require a Microsoft Account during initial setup
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Re: Windows 11 Pro will soon require a Microsoft Account during initial setup
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They care a lot about those people. The USG runs billions of dollars of MS software on classified/offline networks.
I do wonder. The Windows 11 STIG says use the Windows 10 STIG. https://public.cyber.mil/?s=windows+11 The Windows 10 STIG says basically fix this stuff before using. CAT I (High): 26 CAT II (Med): 241 CAT III (Low): 18 https://stigviewer.com/stig/windows_10/ So it seems they have a high tolerance for shenanigans. But what will they do about the online part?
Microsoft will give them whatever they request. When you spend that much money you can just ask for a custom build. I would imagine that NSA TAO and other such parts of the USG are provided access to much of the Windows source already.
Microsoft and US intelligence and the US armed forces are practically vertically integrated at this point, they are the Lockheed of software.
"off the shelf" hasn't meant that for years.
Re: Windows 11 Pro will soon require a Microsoft Account during initial setup
#193I hate it, not because it requires an account, but because Microsoft is nightmarishly bad at account management and has been since I was a little kid in the 90s. They somehow make it possible to have multiple different unsynced accounts across different services, so you constantly forget which is which, and resetting or gaining access is always an incredible hassle. I find myself having to reset my password literally…
These morons at MS decided to force a very confusing and friction-ful Minecraft account migration from Mojang to MS just as all the kids are migrating from Minecraft to Roblox. I'm sure this is only accelerating Minecraft's demise.
Re: Windows 11 Pro will soon require a Microsoft Account during initial setup
#194I hate it, not because it requires an account, but because Microsoft is nightmarishly bad at account management and has been since I was a little kid in the 90s. They somehow make it possible to have multiple different unsynced accounts across different services, so you constantly forget which is which, and resetting or gaining access is always an incredible hassle. I find myself having to reset my password literally…
Forget across services, I somehow have at least three Microsoft accounts all tied to the same email address, with no way to know which account any particular service wants on any given day. Teams is particularly bad, signing me into one of the three seemingly at random so that I have to keep logging out and back in until it miraculously gets me into the correct account, guessing which password it wants each time. Any support avenue I’ve tried has no idea what I’m talking about and offers no fix. Thankfully I don’t much rely on my Microsoft accounts.
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#195I feel for most people out there Chromebooks are a better solution now. Just wish there was better hardware.
Re: Windows 11 Pro will soon require a Microsoft Account during initial setup
#196Earlier quoted context omitted.
Blackmagic Davinci Resolve is a good Premiere replacement and can replace parts of AE. It runs well on Linux. Pixelmator on macOS is a good Photoshop replacement. I got nothing for Lightroom or heavier uses of AE. Or Excel.
For Lightroom there is Darktable.
Darktable is as much a Lightroom replacement as LibreOffice is an Excel replacement or Gimp is a Photoshop replacement, i.e. it absolutely is not.
Source: portrait photographer for 20+ years that would ditch Adobe in a heartbeat if it were possible.
Re: Windows 11 Pro will soon require a Microsoft Account during initial setup
#197Does Windows LTSC (aka the non-ad version of Windows) require a Microsoft Account?
Re: Windows 11 Pro will soon require a Microsoft Account during initial setup
#198Hasn't this happened every major release of windows?
- Windows requires some user authentication on release to prevent piracy
- ... but always caves or puts OEM backdoors for major corps/customers
- and those get pirated.
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#199Earlier quoted context omitted.
Posting someone else's single opinion to back up your own is no less anecdotal than your original post. Whilst I'm not accusing you of this specifically, I have noticed a trend toward folks being so ingrained in the 'Windows way' that anything else is broken if it doesn't act the same. I was the same way for a long time. Started using Windows in 1994 and when I found Linux for myself, I just got angry that it wasn't…
So far "Linux works well for you and countless others" but almost all these people fall under the category of IT specialists or people with a high IQ. There are many anecdotal stories how Windows doesn't work but considering a majority of organizations run Windows (and we are talking about literally hundreds of millions of users) just fine with little to no maintenance while Linux is nowhere to be seen, speaks volume…
How does any of this relate to the accusation that 'desktop Linux is a mess'?
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#200Earlier quoted context omitted.
Games may have gotten better on Linux, but that’s not the case with some programs. Usually riddled with obnoxious DRM that throws a fit in a VM or wine like program. That and nvidia woes are the only thing stopping me from using Linux.
The only thing stopping me from using Linux at this point is piss-poor 4k support, combined with the crap market for building your own PC (thanks Bitcoin!) I just couldn't beat the m1 Air for price/performance last year.
Linux actually has excellent 4K support. If you primarily use KDE and QT applications under x11 what you need to do is virtually nothing or set DPI. GTK apps can be adjusted by setting GDK_SCALE=Integer. If you want to tweak text bigger or smaller set your default font size in GTK/KDE settings to be larger or smaller.
There is an entire section on handles you can tweak in different environments odds are you need few of them save for the above as things are increasingly automatic. For example GDK_SCALE is enough for firefox to look correct without also fiddling with anything internal to firefox.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/HiDPI
Essentially hidpi on Linux is spending 5 minutes reading a wiki then enumerable hours using the system.