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I Will Never Use a Microsoft Account to Log Into My Own PC

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Re: I Will Never Use a Microsoft Account to Log Into My Own PC

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Post by maltalex »

Freak_NL wrote: post #32
GekkePrutser wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I only use my Windows PC for gaming now, where it's kinda unavoidable.

Keep an eye out for games supported on Proton (Steam's Wine facilitation) on protondb.com. In a mere five years gaming on Linux went from a solid selection of native games, to those, plus an impressive amount of high profile titles that just work out of the box (often with better performance on Linux). Of course there may be one or two titles that tie you to Windows, or perhaps multiplayer specific gaming related sof…

"just work out of the box" is an overstatement.

I ran Manjaro for about half a year recently, including using it for gaming. Very few games actually worked out of the box for me, including games with so called "native" Linux support.

I ran into multiple games with "official" Linux support that were simply broken or became broken by an update. Some of those that weren't broken had significant performance issues (that Windows on the same machine didn't have).

Is it possible to game on Linux? Yes. But at the very least it requires fiddling. As much as I love Linux, gaming is just a lot easier on Windows.

Re: I Will Never Use a Microsoft Account to Log Into My Own PC

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Post by swiley »

bostonpete wrote: post #81
swiley wrote: post #72

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> bought something from a shop with no stickiness If you want this you can still have it, you just need to follow a simple rule: Absolutely no non-free non community maintained software ever period.

That rule is simple to state, but damn near impossible to actually execute. I can't imagine the hoops you'd have to jump through to have a cell phone following this simple rule. I appreciate the push towards open source -- obviously a lot of good has come of it, but I'll happily take stickiness for convenience in many situations.

> I can't imagine the hoops you'd have to jump through to have a cell phone following this simple rule.

It was hard, thankfully pine64 exists and it's no longer any more difficult than following on the desktop.

Re: I Will Never Use a Microsoft Account to Log Into My Own PC

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Post by craftinator »

jve wrote: post #53
sandworm101 wrote: post #39

Every stupid mistake by Microsoft is yet another great day for linux.

Except for Ubuntu Core which requires Ubuntu SSO account. https://ubuntu.com/download/raspberry-pi-core The requirements doesn't list internet... and I was pretty sure my friend pressed some button or something that asked him for online login, when he tried to install Ubuntu for raspberry (because I'm not hardcore linux guy and I use Ubuntu and I will be able to assist him better in that OS), but after some googling…

Yeah, Ubuntu seems to be happily trudging down the path of evil, right behind Microsoft. They, of course, don't have the massive marketing budget or UX polish to match though, so it's not going to go nearly as well.

Re: I Will Never Use a Microsoft Account to Log Into My Own PC

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Post by steerablesafe »

badsectoracula wrote: post #56
axelroze wrote: post #40

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Steam Proton and Soldier runtime do wonders. I am playing Witcher 3 through it. Using mods. No lags or crashes.

The annoying bit with those is that they are Steam only. I try to avoid Steam and instead buy from GOG because they are DRM-free and i keep offline copies of all of my games, but Wine still (just tried yesterday the version Void Linux installs in a VM) seems to have issues even with slightly older games. There used to be a way to run Proton outside of Steam but i think it is now discouraged.

I have good experience with recent wine and dxvk too. I don't have steam.

Re: I Will Never Use a Microsoft Account to Log Into My Own PC

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Post by rvanlaar »

brushfoot wrote: post #73

This makes me want to move back to Linux, but last time I tried Ubuntu (2020) there were lots of little annoyances. Off the top of my head: - Screen tearing. I Googled around and installed the Nvidia drivers for my laptop, but it never went away. - No detection of tablet mode. - No auto screen rotation. - Slow Blender rendering. Probably a PEBKAC with my driver setup, but it just worked in Windows and it was easy to…

- Give Pop!_OS a try. It's main selling point is that it just works with modern hardware.

Aside, don't expect switching OS-es to be a walk in the park. Most things will work as good as on windows. You'll probably have to do some custom configuration for your laptop. Tweaks for your specific laptop model will be documented on the arch wiki.

Re: I Will Never Use a Microsoft Account to Log Into My Own PC

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Post by checkyoursudo »

Freak_NL wrote: post #32
GekkePrutser wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I only use my Windows PC for gaming now, where it's kinda unavoidable.

Keep an eye out for games supported on Proton (Steam's Wine facilitation) on protondb.com. In a mere five years gaming on Linux went from a solid selection of native games, to those, plus an impressive amount of high profile titles that just work out of the box (often with better performance on Linux). Of course there may be one or two titles that tie you to Windows, or perhaps multiplayer specific gaming related sof…

My biggest pain point is that some of the mainstream multiplayer anticheat implementations don't work on wine. I'd like to be able to play Tarkov or Hunt or Apex on Linux, but I can't. So far, I have just not played those titles, even though I really want to. I don't really want to have to dual boot just to play them, because Windows 10 messes up my EFI booting. I used to run Windows with a GPU passthrough, but I stopped doing that once proton came along. Maybe I'll look at doing that again, though it was hell to set up on Gentoo at the time. Maybe other distros have smoothed that out a bit? It's been like 6 years since I did it the last time.

I know the wine guys have been doing great work trying to get anticheats working in wine/proton. Hopefully that progresses well. Getting anticheat to work in wine would really be the best.

Re: I Will Never Use a Microsoft Account to Log Into My Own PC

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Post by rovr138 »

orangepanda wrote: post #88
swiley wrote: post #72

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> bought something from a shop with no stickiness If you want this you can still have it, you just need to follow a simple rule: Absolutely no non-free non community maintained software ever period.

He said, on a non community maintained forum. --- Do you mint your own hardware as well? The problem with hard rules is there's numerous exceptions when it doesnt make sense to follow, invalidating the "rule" all together.

They also did say ‘software’.

Re: I Will Never Use a Microsoft Account to Log Into My Own PC

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Post by skinkestek »

amelius wrote: post #51
GekkePrutser wrote: post #26

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Well, here... And in every other discussion where it comes up. But also directly to the vendors. I manage hundreds of Macs at work, and Apple is always pushing us to use VPP (Volume Purchase Program). However, most of the apps we need are not in their store at all, so there is no point. And their 'federated' accounts don't work for us due to arbitrary limitations on Apple's side (Specifically: The UPN must be equal t…

> Well, here... And in every other discussion where it comes up. Not sure if "here" would help in any way, as when it comes to bigcorp-versus-small-guy, HN is basically an echo chamber. Also, I've once heard that Apple employees are discouraged from reading internet forums. That's probably why we never see them here. Kudos for complaining to Apple directly, though.

It helps.

People gets discouraged from working with these companies, meaning they have to raise wages meaning it is easier for others to compete :-)

Re: I Will Never Use a Microsoft Account to Log Into My Own PC

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Post by ttt0 »

iso1631 wrote: post #44
jraph wrote: post #28

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> So many of us depend on their products that we’d be devastated if they destroyed their ecosystem for no good reason This is what free software people have been warning against for decades now, and yet governments and big structures still willingly give their hands to be tied instead of allocating some funds to the development of solutions that don't have this problem and would be far more cost-effective in the end.…

"But not only were they illegal, like debuggers—you could not install one if you had one, without knowing your computer's root password. And neither the FBI nor Microsoft Support would tell you that" https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html That's nearly 25 years old. Fortunately we can still use Free operating systems on at least desktop and laptops, but if you choose to use proprietary software, you get wh…

EULAs already often prohibit disassembling the binary. That feels completely crazy to me, it's like saying that you aren't allowed to press Ctrl-U on a website. Is it actually legally binding?

Re: I Will Never Use a Microsoft Account to Log Into My Own PC

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Post by streamofdigits »

the confusion and distress starts with assuming its "your own pc". for at least a decade now the winning and profitable design pattern wants user devices turning into thin clients. the chromebook-ification of computing if you wish, or its X-terminalization [0] for somewhat older people

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_terminal

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