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Windows 11’s push for mandatory Microsoft accounts is hitting a nerve with users who say the change complicates setup, privacy, and basic PC ownership (www.windowscentral.com)
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[–] garretble@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Windows 10 kept throwing up full screen ads for whatever bullshit they were trying to get me to sign up for while also telling me my computer wasn't good enough for Windows 11.

And that's how I ended up with Mint on my desktop and laptop a couple months ago.

I have to use Windows for work, but my personal machines are Linux and macOS at this point, and I have zero intention of buying another windows license.

[–] Knightfox@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Just moved my parents onto Mint, they were hesitant at first but now doing great. MS is digging it's own grave.

[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 1 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

My 80 yr old mother got a laptop recently, W11. I downgraded to W10 LTSC, and dual boot with Mint, and ran Chris Titus' win util to decrapify. Two weeks later she had allowed windows to trick her into upgrading to W11 again.

She's been using computers since the 70's, and owned PCs since the DOS era, but she just doesn't want to bother with anything but using her PC in autopilot mode. Couldn't care less about exploring Mint.

[–] Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I also just replaced Windows 10 with Mint recently. I did sadly buy Windows 11 proper at some point for my new office PC, which thankfully has been okay after I turn off the copilot shit. And I'm stuck with it until a few programs get some Linux support.

But regardless, I sure won't be buying anything more from Windows.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago

I'm not sure what your use cases and performance requirements are, but Windows works great in a VM.

I rarely use it, but I happened to fire it up today and after updating it I got a full screen ad to start backing up my computer to their shit.