This is how Microsoft is fighting piracy: "So you want to use our software and not pay for it, huh? Fine, but in return we need your personal data and behaviour, and we will show you unwanted ads in the Start menu and other places. Deal?"
Microsoft blocks Windows 11 workaround that enabled local accounts
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Re: Microsoft blocks Windows 11 workaround that enabled local accounts
#62So that means they fixed SMB folder shares with Microsoft accounts, right?
Re: Microsoft blocks Windows 11 workaround that enabled local accounts
#63I recently had to install windows on 2 computers after some years without doing it. Had to spend an entire day debloating the thing. Had to use a handful of tools and powershell scripts to do it. I still can't imagine how they managed to make a context menu open in almost a full second. In Windows 9x on a 200Mhz it was instant. A useless one too, because all the options that matter are in the old one. The only thing…
> The only thing holding me from Linux I've spent the last 25 years using linux and seeing this statement. There's always something.
15 years ago, that was Photoshop that kept me back. I switched to macOS a couple of years later. Now, I switched to Linux, ditching Photoshop. So far so good. I can stand the life without Photoshop, but tolerating macOS or Windows is above me.
Re: Microsoft blocks Windows 11 workaround that enabled local accounts
#64Other than being able to gobble up user data and being able to associate it with a person (or at least an email address) and later sell that information, what is Microsoft reasoning for refusing local accounts? This whole obsession with forcing users to create a Microsoft account is really weird. It may provides some features for certain types of users, but I really don't see any reason for forcing a Microsoft accoun…
The reasoning is Microsoft is now in the services (as well as advertising) business, with traditionally-licensed desktop software revenue becoming less and less important. Which you kinda stated in the last sentence.
The reasoning for not going all in on privacy is because they want to maximise services and advertising revenue, and they also sell to government and enterprise who actually like the ability to spy on their employees. There's not much financial incentive or government regulation to make them focus on consumer/end-user privacy.
Re: Microsoft blocks Windows 11 workaround that enabled local accounts
#65> It seems that Microsoft is aiming to make the use of Windows 11 dependent on a Microsoft account. In combination with the increased calls for Windows users to finally switch to Windows 11, this appears to be a controversial combination.
I want to see if they really manage to force several millions of users out of the blue to make a MS account, against the explicit will of those users.
Re: Microsoft blocks Windows 11 workaround that enabled local accounts
#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think we crossed the point where Linux is less shitty than Windows. KDE and XFCE can compete.
That could very well be, but less shitty is the wrong metric. Can get shit done is the right metric, regular users don't care about corporate telemetry and adware so long as it doesn't get in the way of getting their stuff done. A good example of what I mean is a work event I attended a year or two ago. We had a bunch of guys up on the stage and between the lot they probably had over a century of combined Linux exper…
How? I thought this was a solved problem. I've been using arandr for a decade.
Re: Microsoft blocks Windows 11 workaround that enabled local accounts
#67Re: Microsoft blocks Windows 11 workaround that enabled local accounts
#68I just recently had to reinstall it a second time because my first image didn't let me past the account registration. It specifically stated that an internet connection is required and there was no way around it. On a notebook where neither ethernet nor wlan worked out of the box btw, I had to install them manually. That wouldn't have been possible with the old install. While I had an adapter to enable networking jus…
Whats the issue with Secure Boot? That's an actually good idea security wise.
No it isn't. It is allowing microsoft the only authority to allow you to run software of your choice on your own hardware.
Re: Microsoft blocks Windows 11 workaround that enabled local accounts
#69Now that I've started getting Windows 10 EOL Notifications (on aging 2017 hardware), I'll be needing to upgrade to a new Desktop + OS soon.
No idea what my next Desktop OS is going to be but definitely don't want ads/spyware in a progressively user hostile OS so it will be the first time where I wont be using Windows as my primary OS. I've been using macOS on my macbooks and deploy exclusively to Linux servers so either OS will be a viable alternative.
It will come down to whether Apple can ship compelling M4 H/W at this years WWDC, if they don't I'll be switching to a Linux Desktop OS where it will finally be the year of the Linux Desktop!
Re: Microsoft blocks Windows 11 workaround that enabled local accounts
#70Other than being able to gobble up user data and being able to associate it with a person (or at least an email address) and later sell that information, what is Microsoft reasoning for refusing local accounts? This whole obsession with forcing users to create a Microsoft account is really weird. It may provides some features for certain types of users, but I really don't see any reason for forcing a Microsoft accoun…
> but I really don't see any reason for forcing a Microsoft account.
Microsoft has ties with many governments. I wouldn't be much surprised if the reason they amass user data had nothing to do with selling that data to companies.