Windows 10 will start pushing users to use Microsoft accounts. How to turn it off.

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Windows 10 will start pushing users to use Microsoft accounts. How to turn it off.
mashable.com

Well, Microsoft is getting ready to annoy its faithful Windows 10 user base with yet another prompt. This time, Microsoft wants Windows 10 users to switch from using a local account to their online Microsoft account.

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Lemmy users generally subscribe to the philosophy of "if everyone just thought exactly like me then the world would be utopia"

The actual solution is to pirate Windows 10 LTSC IOT from 1337x.to (microsoft's debloated version of W10 for sysadmins, it tends to get leaked) for a usable everyday system. The only Linux setups that are possible to daily drive (aren't unstable) are Linux Mint and an Arch setup with Hyprland if you know what you're doing - anything else has serious issues in my experience. Even if you got Adobe and Office apps running (which is possible in some cases), both the most used desktop environments on Linux (GNOME and KDE) are incredibly buggy messes. Literally half of all 'distros' are just trying to make sure those two desktop envs aren't launching nuclear bombs on your machine

XFCE is a pain-free desktop environment, so Xubuntu is my system of choice for personal use.

But in the office I just can't unilaterally decide to ditch Windows. And while I do have access to an admin account to fix some annoyances, it's not like I can run a custom OS so far removed from the regular user accounts that I wouldn't be able to replicate their issues.

The actual solution is to pirate Windows 10 LTSC IOT

Awesome. Amazing. Thankyou. This looks great.

That said, the rest of your comment is a bit... arrogant? Especially after complaining that Lemmy users are arrogant. Linux didn't work for you and / or your use case. Fine. Everything else works fine for loads of other people.