Windows 10 keeps bugging me to use a Microsoft account

Windows is slowly transitioning from a paid and solid OS to freemuim spyware bloated dumb OS.

Even though Windows is very user-friendly. I think Windows 11 might be my last. The amount of anti-privacy that’s implemented and what I have to do just so it doesn’t constantly phone back home is kind of ridiculous.

Off to pick my flavor of Linux.

Sir, do you have a minute to talk about Linux? 👉👈

"YOU KNOW WHY I CLICK LATER? BECAUSE THERE'S NO OPTION TO CLICK NEVER! I'D LIKE TO CLICK NEVER! I NEVER WANT TO DOWNLOAD THESE STUPID BULLSHIT FUCKING UPDATES EVER AGAIN!"

I have a feeling people here like Linux...

proton is pretty much there, thinking to jump ship to linux - already use it in all my work for decades

psst... I hear you're looking to ditch Microsoft. You might like what you see over at c/linux

This grinds my gears. Apple does the same: my work MBP nags me daily to enable iCloud backups but I have no way of doing it because Apple login is disabled by my administrator. Consequently, I cannot reach the settings page to tell Mac to fuck off.

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I see this is your first day with a Windows computer. Welcome.

Only good thing about windows being so bad is that amazing feeling when I finish my homework in Solidworks (🤬) and boot back to my Linux desktop.

If I had known it was possible to make a local account instead of having to use my outlook for my desktop, I totally would have gone that route a couple years ago. Only plus side I can think of for not doing it is that I have immediate access to my outlook.

I've always been a power user but never minded Windows until W11. Luckily WSL was a great gateway drug for me and I ended up switching to Linux full-time after living inside WSL for a few weeks.

Why don't you just turn those notifications off?

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/137645-turn-off-get-even-more-out-windows-suggestions-windows-10-a.html

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Is there even a single benefit of this? I don't want anything to do with one drive.

Highly rexommed Mint Cinammon or Pop!_os

I have a Win7 on my PC which I only use for gaming but Steam is telling me it'll stop working on Win7 in about 80 days or so. I installed Win7 on it for a reason but soon it'll be my first ever computer running Linux.

Windows 10 pushed me into finally jumping into Linux a few years ago. I've been happy ever since it feels good to change what you don't like about a system.

There's a tool for making bootable windows USB drives called Rufus that gives you options to remove things like requiring a Windows account, TPM requirement for Windows 11, secure boot, etc when you're cloning the iso to the USB drive.

I see loads of things on here about what Windows does that gets on people's nerves. Why don't I see any of it on my install? I get no ads, annoying pop-ups etc. afaik it's just win11 pro.

My windows 11 has the same notification but it pops up in the center of the screen on top of everything about every hour.

I've never seen a pop-up like this on Windows and I work in IT for a living. I don't do anything special with my personal OS install so idk what the difference is.

just create a "fuckyoaccount" over at protonmail and log in.

I was an early adherent to unique passwords for every login. Now I'm doing a unique email as well. Works a treat, and fucks up their marketing too which warms my heart.

I think you need to look a linjx distro for you

GNU/Linux

Use O&O shutup

anyone want bet when this is going to end? i cant remember any release after xp that not had users cry about shit M$ did. winME...epic...so many sad customers. and while win7 kinda worked ok like a cheap toy you bought it was a telemetry desaster ...oh, and with IE and M$paint that were already shit in winXP. so my questions is: how many generations does it take until ppl stop falling for their crap? i once read animals need like 3 errors to change behavious in a test with electric shocks on two of three exits of a cage. three. that should have stopped most animals to use windows after 98, xp and 7. so if you use win8 or win10 or later....i better stop here

Unrelated but what is that start menu?? Mine looks absolutely nothing like that

Use tiny10.

Maybe in the next 30 years ReactOS will reach a windows 10 level, hopefully sooner.

Tell it to suck your dick

Starting to like these posts. They help me block the linux bros to clean up my feed