extratone
@extratone@lemmy.world
Self-Described Software Historian, Writing In Public and H e r e 2 H e l p.
- Comment on Microsoft Account to local account conversion guide erased from official Windows 11 guide — instructions redacted earlier this week 4 months ago:
I appreciate all of the privacy and ethics-associated reasons why it is preferable to start a Windows 11 installation with a local account, but if I could just add one more…
When you use a Microsoft account to do so, the operating system still requires a fucking username for the name of your user directory (because a local account must be created regardless, yes,) and all it has to go on is the email address you used to set up your Microsoft account.
A few years ago when I first installed Windows 11 on my home PC, the email address still associated with my primary account was
ihadtopee@gmail.com
.So, what do you think my user account folder was named? You’d probably assume it’d be
ihadtopee
, right?No. Through whatever process they set up to decide upon this, Windows 11 came up with
ihadt
.Perhaps it makes me a superficial person, but that shit bugs me far more than anything else about the whole thing.