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Re:Windows 11 Pro will soon require a Microsoft Account duri... by amanzi on Friday February 18, 2022 @07:20PM (#30393071)
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.

Re:Windows 11 Pro will soon require a Microsoft Account duri... by rd07 on Friday February 18, 2022 @10:49PM (#30394265)
You might want to try WinApps or something similar to run your MS Office in Linux. I haven't try it myself, but it seems a nice way to run Windows apps in Linux.
Re:Windows 11 Pro will soon require a Microsoft Account duri... by amanzi on Sunday February 20, 2022 @07:04PM (#30410489)
Thanks for the tip about WinApps. Looks like it might work for me but will try it out to confirm.