Re:Windows 11 Pro will soon require a Microsoft Account duri...
by stjohnswarts on Friday February 18, 2022 @05:12PM
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I might get downvoted, but I like windows as an OS. I used it for years and it was pretty stable and easy to modify. Now that they are going the way of Google they really have nothing to keep me. Linux has been my main OS for years anyway. Windows I used for office, adobe products, and games. I guess I'll just keep a network gapped VM around for those on my linux and buy some extra memory to handle the VM.
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Re:Windows 11 Pro will soon require a Microsoft Account duri...
by worewood on Friday February 18, 2022 @07:28PM
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Technically speaking it is nice. I like NT as an OS too. The user experience is being eroded by marketing.
Re:Windows 11 Pro will soon require a Microsoft Account duri...
by amanzi on Friday February 18, 2022 @07:20PM
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Most of my work life has been focused on Microsoft products, so I've been using Windows for a long time as my primary OS. I upgraded to Windows 11 as soon as I could and despite me creating a local account initially, I then linked it to a Microsoft Account which has caused me no end of pain. There have been lots of other niggly issues with Windows 11 that I've been living with, e.g. I prefer having my taskbar on the right-hand side of the screen but that feature went away with Windows 11; and the start menu search has been playing up recently where I couldn't just start typing after the menu coming up - although it seems to be better at the moment.
I switched my laptop over to PopOS a while back and have really been enjoying that, although I miss not having the Office desktop apps available. I also purchased a OneDrive sync app for Linux which works very well.