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Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Irelephant@lemm.ee⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://www.theverge.com/news/638967/microsoft-windows-11-account-internet-bypass-blocked

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  • fork_hero@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Ah sweet vindication for getting my gaming PC and daily driver laptop on Linux

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  • LoveSausage@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Chiming in as well with a Linux distro: peppermint , debian based. If you want the horrors to persist but kind of limited check out windows ameliorated

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  • singletona@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Yet another reason to not use windows 11.

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  • GoodOleAmerika@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Tried Pop PS recently. Night and day difference.

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  • superkret@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    How does this work nowadays when you buy a PC from a store?
    Does it come with Windows already installed?
    And if so, with what account?

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  • matmarspace@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Meh… Yet another thing that everyone will just accept as a new norm. :c

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  • dryfter@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Ok, so this solidifies my desire to never buy a Windows PC/laptop and why my switch to Mac was a good choice a few years ago. However Mac gaming is nowhere near where it should be right now and I was thinking about getting a cheap Windows laptop for games that aren’t available on Mac.

    I remember a push a few years ago to get some linux distros pre-installed on some OEM hardware but I didn’t hear much of anything past the hype. Anyone have any good OEM brands that have linux installed instead of Windows and are relatively affordable?

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    • tauren@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      It’s funny that with how enclosed the Apple ecosystem is, even they don’t force you to create an Apple account to use macOS.

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    • BombOmOm@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Framework laptops can come with optionally no OS if you choose, and I can attest to their build quality being quite good.

      I know there are some brands that will have Linux pre-installed, but I don’t know enough about them to comment.

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  • rekabis@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Looks like I’ll finally be migrating my final workstation off of Windows 11.

    I mean, I still have a while. The Dell T7910 still meets all of the Windows 11 Workstation 24H2 requirements, so Rufus only needs to modify that one part of the installer. And once I have Windows installed, I can do upgrades over Windows Update.

    But once the machine gets too old for that…

    At least OpenSUSE meets most of my needs.

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  • jasoman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    To be far this command was only needed for win 11 Home. Pro did not need a command as the option is available through normal prompts windows gives you.

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    • Dlolor@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I think that option was removed even on Pro a pretty long time ago, no? At least the last couple of times I installed W11 Pro the graphical option was nowhere to be found. It used to be available easily enough that anyone could choose it if they didn’t blindly click Next, then it got more and more hidden away and now I’m 99% sure you need the command unless you prep the ISO using Rufus and its function to create a local account for you. On that note, I wonder if this will affect the Rufus method too…

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      • jasoman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        It is under sign in option when you get to it then choose domain join. This get you to create a local account.

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  • mhague@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    “Sucking off Bill Gates is bad, but Linux doesn’t support video games”

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    • ooterness@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I switched to Ubuntu a few months ago, and all my Steam games work just fine. Never looking back.

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    • atrielienz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Bill Gates doesn’t run Microsoft anymore. He’s not the CEO and largely not responsible for the change in their business model.

      Also, I game on Linux more than I do on windows (though I do have a partition in my drive to run windows for games I couldn’t get working on steam OS/ Bazzite. It’s literally 4 games out of over 100.

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      • mhague@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I’m making fun of the juxtaposition of people that express frustration/animosity for Windows with the need to stay on Windows in order to consume cutting edge video games.

        It gets to be comical. Something about the “height” difference. Like you have the giant “They’re taking away my ownership of my data and my very computer!” standing next to little old “But I like my raytracing.”

        “My data is being exposed in the name of corporate AI!” next to “But I can’t play games with anticheat with my friends.” It’s funny. I’m going to laugh.

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  • NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I have heard about identity provider software on Linux for self hosting.

    Is that a possibility for family members’ win11 accounts too, when they run into that problem in the future? Or is a M$ account the only way then?

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  • muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    One or all of em.

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