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Excel's AI: 20% of the time, it works every time (www.spacebar.news)
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[–] 8 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

Forget Xbox, look at how they're treating Windows lately. Loaded with ads and bloat, forced hardware upgrades with Win11, forced MS account sign-in with no option for local accounts unless you're running one of the Enterprise/IoT SKUs....

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    You can operate without a local account - source, I‘m on Windows 11 and I‘ve never had a Microsoft account - but it‘s a massive PITA and takes a lot of playing around and disconnecting from the internet during install, and stuff like that.

    You‘re right that 99% of people won‘t know/won‘t bother to go through the hassle and that Microsoft through the years have been making it harder and harder to have a local account, but at the moment it‘s still technically possible.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Apparently my Microsoft account is some bullshit one I made for Xbox in 2006 and it thinks I'm a made up name from that time, which is pretty funny to me literally everytime I reset my PC ... Which because I use win 11 is way more often than it should be

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I'm on Win11 and see almost none of the issues people like you are talking about. No doubt they exist! Maybe it's because I'm on a plain vanilla ISO and I stripped the crap out early on? Same SSD I had 4 computers ago on Win10, just get moving it over. Talk like yours makes me afraid of a fresh install!

    If it's as bad as people say, I'll give up and go Debian. I was largely staying Windows so I could be familiar and support my coworkers. Unemployed now. Who cares?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    They've since relaxed a bit on the forced hardware upgrade part; you can install Win11 on 'unsupported' hardware now, you'll just have click a prompt saying you'll get no support and you're on your own if you attempt that, where initially it wouldn't even let you do that.

    The forced MS account login is very much an issue with the consumer SKUs and the Enterprise/IoT SKUs still let you use a local account. Similarly, LTSC in particular is barren on the bloat front, while the consumer SKUs and even the non-LTSC Enterprise and IoT SKUs aren't much better in this regard, come loaded with bloat.

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