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Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option when installing Windows
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Re: Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option when installing Windows
#262I've switched to Linux + Mint in part because I don't want to be using Windows any more. Many of my games work with Steam on Linux now, actually. With Google's docs/drive, everything works cross platform. I really have no productivity loss by not using Windows any more.
How do you deal with Broadcom WiFi drivers?
You buy laptops with Intel nic's
Re: Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option when installing Windows
#263I've switched to Linux + Mint in part because I don't want to be using Windows any more. Many of my games work with Steam on Linux now, actually. With Google's docs/drive, everything works cross platform. I really have no productivity loss by not using Windows any more.
> With Google's docs/drive, everything works cross platform What do you use instead of Google Backup and Sync client? I haven't found something that works like that. The "best" thing I've found is the FUSE Ocaml filesystem ( https://github.com/astrada/google-drive-ocamlfuse ) but still it is a "mounted" over network filesystem and not a sync-on-change solution. I tried InSync but could not make it work and it is not…
I use use a git-like cli binary to sync my google drive (https://github.com/odeke-em/drive). Really like it, and there's no weird background process or automatic syncing going on that's chewing up resources.
Re: Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option when installing Windows
#264Meanwhile, the Linux world is wasting its biggest opportunity to take over the desktop space. IMO, Unintuitive interfaces (e.g. Gnome shell), forced package management (as opposed to decentralized distribution of apps) and lack of care for graphic design are the biggest things keeping the masses away from the Linux desktop, because in other areas (speed, robustness, privacy, control) it just blows Windows out of the…
I tried to use the Apple trackpad under Ubuntu and only got pointing functionality, no scrolling. The fix was an easy 15 step procedure. Bluetooth receiver didn't work either. By the lack of an outcry apparently nobody cares about that kind of hardware in Ubuntu.
Re: Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option when installing Windows
#265I've switched to Linux + Mint in part because I don't want to be using Windows any more. Many of my games work with Steam on Linux now, actually. With Google's docs/drive, everything works cross platform. I really have no productivity loss by not using Windows any more.
> With Google's docs/drive, everything works cross platform What do you use instead of Google Backup and Sync client? I haven't found something that works like that. The "best" thing I've found is the FUSE Ocaml filesystem ( https://github.com/astrada/google-drive-ocamlfuse ) but still it is a "mounted" over network filesystem and not a sync-on-change solution. I tried InSync but could not make it work and it is not…
I use oDrive for sync-on-change to various cloud accounts.
Re: Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option when installing Windows
#266Earlier quoted context omitted.
Im sorry, but I really don't understand your perspective. Does Porsche screw their customers when they charge $500 for an oil change? Is Coach "screwing" it's customer by charging that much for a purse? High five audio devices often don't have cabling that consumer devices do - is that screwing the consumer? I can appreciate that you don't want to pay that much, but how is it "screwing"?
>but how is it "screwing"? Because all you get for $1000 is a one nice stand?
Good thing the Apple Watch is such a good bargain then, since all you get from Rolex for $10000 is one nice watch.
Not all things in technology are created for all people. If you think selling a $6000 screen with a $900 discount if you only need a VESA mount because you already have a $2000 desk & mount setup is absurd, you’re not the target market.
Re: Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option when installing Windows
#267As a happy Win8 user, that's exactly the reason why I switched from Win10 to Linux. Many offline functions need online to perform. It is sad.
I will stick with my windows 8.1 in my i5 third gen machine as late as possible, until either the support ends or the computer needs to be retired.
Re: Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option when installing Windows
#268As someone who uses Windows for industrial PCs, I'm pretty appalled. We've been hanging on to Windows 7, including side-loading drivers into the installation image for modern hardware, because this kind of stuff that Windows 10 does is in these cases simply unacceptable (random tip: Go for AMD, their Windows 7 support is way better than Intel, do not use Intel chipset series 300). I can't have PCs bogged down downloa…
Why are you using a consumer level OS/setup for this? PC's setup in a corporate environment are tightly controlled, even with Windows 10.
Because they're all consumer level OSes now, unless you can afford an enterprise license. Not every organization can.
It used to be perfectly reasonable to run light industrial and test equipment on Windows.
Re: Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option when installing Windows
#269At least it can sleep and resume reliably. I have a Linux laptop and desktop and work and both of them crash on either suspend or resume. Actually, I installed the latest mainline kernel and managed to get my desktop to resume once, but the second resume locks up the whole system. So now I just do a full power off every day when I leave. The laptop is System 76 and comes with PopOS pre-installed and I still have issu…
I had that problem with my Windows laptops too, especially the Precision 7245 I had! GRR I hated that laptop.
Re: Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option when installing Windows
#270...and from what I can tell, their online account security is craptastic. Here’s a true story that happened to my family. My son is the only person in the house who uses Windows. For his game machine. He set up a Microsoft online account. It got hacked - someone set up a fake family and managed to get my son’s account listed under it as a child. As a consequence, he couldn’t install any new software. I’m not sure wha…
Yep, and last I checked (earlier this year I believe), there’s still a 14-character length limit on the MS account password. My bank’s better than that for crying out loud. Forget diceware or any other sane scheme, say hello to random hard-to-type punctuation characters. And now you’re forced to use that as your computer password too, which you probably have to type multiple times a day. (Okay, thankfully local accou…
This isn't the case with me. My MS a/c (which is also my Windows login a/c) has a 44 character password.