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 threadgeophysicistApr 19, 2024
yeah this was me. swapped to Mac. Couldn’t bring myself to sign up to all the debugging that would go into having a Linux based laptop. I left windows due to the overhead of disabling the bloatware, popups and general bullshit. I didn’t want to swap that for other ongoing issues. Just give me something that works. It’s an OS, not a hobby project
Show threadiopqApr 19, 2024
Yeah, but Mac is actually weird and unintuitive. Like, I never figured out that to install programs you have to drag them in. I just clicked on the icon after opening the .dmg
Show threadmindlightApr 19, 2024
It’s so funny that you use the word “unintuitive” and the describe the most intuitive way of adding a program to your computer. 😁
Show threadiopq
How would I know to drag anything anywhere?
Apr 20, 2024 at 11:26amWeb
Show threadmindlightApr 20, 2024

How do you get new furniture into your house?

Our way, since I’m a Windows and Linux user, of adding applications is a remnant from the old times. We have left the age where computers are maintained by men in white coats and powerful computers took up while buildings.

Apples way is more intuitive since it mimics how it most often works in the real world.

Computers should adapt to humans, not the other way around.

Show threadiopqApr 20, 2024
I add the furniture to my configuration.nix and rebuild the whole house