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  • Re: Desktop Linux growth over the last 5 years

    From Joel W. Crump@joelcrump@gmail.com to comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.comp.os.windows-11 on Thu Oct 9 13:38:30 2025
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    On 10/9/2025 9:35 AM, pothead wrote:

    Here's another good reason to run Linux:

    "Windows 11 removes all bypass methods for Microsoft account setup, removing local accounts"

    <https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/10/windows-11-now-blocks-all-microsoft-account-bypasses-during-setup/>

    RUFUS might still work, but it's way beyond an average person's abilities IMHO.

    My guess is that Microsoft is laying the groundwork for a subscription model. Just a thought.


    Back up your horses. Let me tell you something. In 2023, I switched to
    Linux abruptly from Windows 11, where I was signed in with my Microsoft account. This year, when the disaster happened and I got a new computer
    with Win11, logging into my account made it use my settings from a
    couple years ago on an entirely different device. It was neato. You
    lose out by obsessively, brain-damagedly circumventing the Microsoft
    account feature. Just do it.
    --
    Joel W. Crump
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  • From Chris Ahlstrom@OFeem1987@teleworm.us to comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.comp.os.windows-11 on Fri Oct 10 11:09:30 2025
    From Newsgroup: alt.comp.os.windows-11

    Joel W. Crump wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

    On 10/9/2025 9:35 AM, pothead wrote:

    Here's another good reason to run Linux:

    "Windows 11 removes all bypass methods for Microsoft account setup, removing local accounts"

    <https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/10/windows-11-now-blocks-all-microsoft-account-bypasses-during-setup/>

    RUFUS might still work, but it's way beyond an average person's abilities IMHO.

    My guess is that Microsoft is laying the groundwork for a subscription model.
    Just a thought.

    Back up your horses. Let me tell you something. In 2023, I switched to Linux abruptly from Windows 11, where I was signed in with my Microsoft account. This year, when the disaster happened and I got a new computer with Win11, logging into my account made it use my settings from a
    couple years ago on an entirely different device. It was neato. You
    lose out by obsessively, brain-damagedly circumventing the Microsoft
    account feature. Just do it.

    Nah. I use Win 11 rarely, and only for debugging/building code on
    it.
    --
    The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed
    ideas in the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
    -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
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