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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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Post by Egoist »

“The changes will mirror the same requirements Microsoft originally added to Windows 11 Home last year, meaning you won’t be able to avoid Microsoft Accounts by creating a local user account during setup.”

If I remember correctly, when you install Win11 Home, it forces you to login with a Microsoft account. But the easy workaround is to unplug the ethernet cable, windows will realize it can’t connect and the local account option should appear.

Nevertheless, It’s stupid that MS wants this behavior by default

Re: Windows 11 Pro will soon require a Microsoft Account during initial setup

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Post by candiddevmike »

TillE wrote: post #29
nickdurfe wrote: post #6

I believe you can still choose the domain join option during install and still create a local account

Are there any simple domain server emulators out there which I could just run on a Raspberry Pi or whatever, like the fake KMS servers? That would be a decent workaround.

Samba can easily be configured as a DC.

Re: Windows 11 Pro will soon require a Microsoft Account during initial setup

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Post by zamadatix »

alanwreath wrote: post #32

Wishes: Microsoft just buy a linux distro. Bless it, so MS Apps only run on Windows. Make it free for home installs and remove these cloud login shenanigans. Friggin' keep charging Amazon and GCP for running it virtually (unless you actually want mindshare). I'd totally flock to Windows (and its paid services). I guess I just don't see why an operating system is still their cash cow. Feels like the stupid that is: bu…

The consumer licensing of the OS isn't their cash cow, the subscription revenue from tied services is, so changing the OS base doesn't change the subscription push.

A very small portion of the market is even aware a Windows license costs money. If they've bought a Windows PC since 7 it's pushed them for free all the way to 11 and the vast majority don't build their own to find out they need a license (and heck it really doesn't do much against you if you don't buy the license these days anyways).

The real money in the consumer side is in the services and data, O365/teams/onedrive/bing/edge(browsing), which is why they push these so hard on default installs. It wouldn't matter if they used Linux as a base, their push would still be to push users towards these services.

That a few people who even know what Linux is would be more likely to use thire services if they stopped pushing them to the average user isn't going to sound enticing to Microsoft as they'd be losing a lot more than gaining.

Re: Windows 11 Pro will soon require a Microsoft Account during initial setup

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Post by yepthatsreality »

stinos wrote: post #49

those hoping to avoid that will have to use a dummy Microsoft Account to then create a local one afterwards. And then delete the Microsoft Account? Would that leave traces?

Define “traces”. If it hits Microsoft servers with your reg key, then you’re cooked.

Re: Windows 11 Pro will soon require a Microsoft Account during initial setup

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Post by mdoms »

randomhodler84 wrote: post #2

Literally a trap to hand over your encryption keys. Never sign into an operating system with a cloud identity. You should have stopped using windows years ago. There is no excuse, especially thanks to Valve for their work enhancing wine ecosystem and making your games work.

Wake me up when I can play my sim racing games with wheel and pedal support in Linux.

Re: Windows 11 Pro will soon require a Microsoft Account during initial setup

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Post by napkin »

larrik wrote: post #17
theyeenzbeanz wrote: post #5

Earlier 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.

Hmm what do you mean by piss poor 4k support? I have a 27" 4k display and so far things have been great with debian/gnome at 200% scaling. From what I can tell at least integer scaling is pretty good in most Linux desktop environments.

Re: Windows 11 Pro will soon require a Microsoft Account during initial setup

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Post by iqanq »

fortyseven wrote: post #33
Melatonic wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Might be a good time to take some affordable evening classes at your local community college wink wink nudge nudge

What a shitty thing to say to someone.

Ooops, virtue signalling gone wrong here.

Re: Windows 11 Pro will soon require a Microsoft Account during initial setup

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Post by kettro »

nemacol wrote: post #52

Can you use Apple products without an account? If not*, what version of Linux should I get setup with. Casual web development. I mostly use my personal machine for gaming. Edit - Typo

The obvious choice is Ubuntu. Works, is easy to use, and help is everywhere for it.

Later on, you may want to branch out to More complicated Distros, but Ubuntu (or Debian) is the easy choice.

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