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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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[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 35 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Do you have a few minutes to talk about our Lord and Saviour, Linus Torvalds?

[–] rozodru@piefed.world 11 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

a few years ago I had a really stupid issue with my laptop. about twice a year, for whatever reason, Windows 11 decided my internal wifi card wasn't worth existing and would just wipe it off the face of the earth. Just completely remove it, delete the drivers, everything. hard resetting the laptop didn't work, physically unplugging and replugging the card back in didn't work, manually installing the drivers didn't work. the ONLY way Windows would accept the card again was on a fresh OS install. So twice a year, like clockwork, i'd have to do that except the last time I couldn't because I needed an MS account. well I couldn't get online. for whatever reason it wouldn't allow me to connect to wifi and I didn't have access to an eithernet connection. So I gave up and finally decided to give this Linux thing a try. Installed Mint within 15min.

The added bonus of installing Linux on the laptop was it suddenly brought my battery back to life. on Windows I MAYBE got 30min out of a full charge. On Linux with a WM like Niri it's now a few hours. Linux also made me fall in love with the PC again. Now I'm on NixOS and i just love configuring my system or doing more dev work with ease thanks to nixshells.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 4 points 49 minutes ago

Praise be!

[–] mr_anny@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

I always have time to talk about The Admin. Should I make some ~~tea~~ coffee to sip as we talk?

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 1 points 49 minutes ago

Milk and sugar please.

[–] uhmbah@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 hours ago

Ha, "The Admin" brought to mind something I haven't thought about in years...

BOFH