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    [–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Wait i have w11 in my laptop... i dont have a windows account sign in. Is that a forthcoming change?

    Ads are fucked, thats fucked.

    But it mainly seems like microsoft policy, not necessarily w11 itself is the issue?

    I ignorantly think a monthly subscription would never happen and we'd see mass linux adoption.

    I have a dual boot in my near term plans for my desktop. I would pull that trigger immediately if ads or subscriptions materialized.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

    Pro or Home? It looks like home is going to try to force you into a microsoft account a lot harder than pro. There are a couple of tricks to bypass it in the OOBE. But if you do sign into an MS account you can go into settings and there's a button somewhere to switch to a local account. You'd just have to seek that out and it's a pain.

    [–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

    iirc it is during install now. You have to do things that are way beyond the average user's knowledge or ability to enable a local account.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

    Ads are...already a thing. Shit like putting candy crush which allows you to spend real money to pay to win. Search suggestions in the start menu. The app store is an attempt at an Apple style money grab except the money grab only exists on the apple side because its the only way to get apps on the machine and MS never got much out its store in comparison.

    Ads and subscriptions would already have happened if they had succeeded in using secure boot to lock machines out of alternative OS