IHeartBadCodeApr 19, 2024

Windows 10 will start pushing users to use Microsoft accounts. How to turn it off.

Well, Microsoft is getting ready to annoy its faithful Windows 10 user base with yet another prompt. This time, Microsoft wants Windows 10 users to switch from using a local account to their online Microsoft account. #windows10 #microsoft

https://mashable.com/article/windows-10-microsoft-account-shut-off-notifications

Windows 10 will start pushing users to use Microsoft accounts. How to turn it off.

Get Microsoft to just stop.

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Show threadjust_another_personApr 19, 2024
Man, Microsoft really seems like they don’t want power users on their OS anymore. Forced AI junk, Ads, MS accounts, and all kinds of other junk. Waiting to see what the Linux Desktop adoption numbers are this fall.
Show threaddual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️Apr 19, 2024

As much as I like to see this sentiment, I think now as ever the people who actually follow through with moving to Linux will be few in number.

Most users who get fed up and decide the hell with it are likely to just buy a Mac instead, as revolting a development as that may be.

Show threadkirk-clawson

are likely to just buy a Mac instead
That's fine, actually. I can talk to a Mac user. I can say things like "it's in a folder under your Home directory" and they will know exactly where that is. Windows users will just stare at you, slack-jawed and drooling.

Apr 19, 2024 at 8:14pmWeb
Show threaddual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️Apr 19, 2024
Windows user A will not know what their home directory is and will respond as described. Windows user B will assume that it is their “my documents” folder, which may or may not be the case, because: Windows user C will know that there are effectively three home directories in Windows (/users/username, /users/username/documents, and /users/username/appadata/local) but that won’t help anybody determine which one some program actually put the goddamn file in.