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Elon Musk finally says something we can all agree on: No one wants to have to log in with a Microsoft Account on Windows 11 (www.pcgamer.com)

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[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 299 points 8 months ago (12 children)

Just like no one wants to sign into Twitter to read one tweet.

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[–] banichan@lemmy.world 137 points 8 months ago

[–] ZeroCool@slrpnk.net 76 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Ugh... I guess it's time to dust off this classic:

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[–] RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 47 points 8 months ago (2 children)

This just in: broken clock is right twice a day.

[–] Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 16 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Not if broken because it's missing the hands

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[–] nac82@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago

He's literally wrong. You can set up windows 11 devices without a sign in.

While being wrong about this, the idiot forces sign in to use twitter...

[–] hperrin@lemmy.world 38 points 8 months ago

Cool yeah, no one wants to have to log in with a Twitter account either.

[–] breakingcups@lemmy.world 37 points 8 months ago

Wow, I wonder about his opinion on stubbing your toe.

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 35 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Who gives a fuckingdickleshit about this asshole

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[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 18 points 8 months ago

How about we go a step further and say that I don't want to have to sign into ANY online account to access my computer.

If I disconnect my Ethernet cable, I can still log in and get work done. That should be the absolute MINIMUM that is expected of any operating system.

Linux is sometimes a royal pain in the ass, but it's for precisely that reason that it's important that it and Foss options like it are supported.

[–] uzay@infosec.pub 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)

No one wants to log in to look at twitter posts either

[–] slurpeesoforion@startrek.website 8 points 8 months ago

No one wants to ~~log in to~~ look at twitter posts either

[–] NoiseColor@startrek.website 15 points 8 months ago

Not really a contraversial opinion.

[–] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 12 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Buy Microsoft you fucking coward

[–] Pistcow@lemm.ee 21 points 8 months ago (3 children)

The entire global economy is held together by Excel. No thank you

[–] RmDebArc_5@lemmy.ml 5 points 8 months ago

You mean Xcel?

[–] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 4 points 8 months ago

We still have COBOL and AS400. We'll be fine!

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[–] Octopus1348@lemy.lol 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'd be happy. But too late to make Windows 10's name Windows X, so it probably won't happen.

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 30 points 8 months ago (1 children)

He can rename it Windows X11 and piss off everyone

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[–] beirut_bootleg@programming.dev 11 points 8 months ago

Wow so bold!

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago

I also hate having to login every 10 minutes to another windows password shit because hey it's secure!

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

This shithead posts the stupidest shit and people make it viral.

I understand how people are fucked up about that

[–] db2@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm going to log in with a burner Microsoft account on unactivated Windows 11 to spite both assholes.

[–] pizza_the_hutt@sh.itjust.works 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

You don't even need a Microsoft account. You can get around it with by using Rufus to create the Windows 11 installer.

[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

I had to figure out the command to bring up the command console to not log in with a Microsoft account. It was super dumb. I had to turn something off in the system as a workaround, which meant a bunch of googling.

There is zero reason for me to have a Microsoft account associated with my computer just to use it.

[–] MowFord@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You can get around it by disconnecting the Internet during setup

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[–] ctobrien84@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

You don't have to. It isn't required. I setup end points everyday with local users.

[–] AChiTenshi@sh.itjust.works 11 points 8 months ago (5 children)

For the general consumer Microsoft is making it as hidden as possible to make a local user during installation.

When I had to reinstall windows a month or two ago the option to make a local machine user was not there until I unplugged the ethernet or brought up a terminal to force the installer to show the option.

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[–] butter@midwest.social 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Business class is a different license. Likely enterprise or volume.

It requires some registry or command line crap to deal with it on consumer grade Windows.

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[–] PeterPoopshit@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

Oh shit now Elon is going to try to buy all of Linux.

[–] Psaldorn@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Wait until he uses Geforce Experience.. oh boy. Every time it makes me log in AND THEN VERIFY MY EMAIL.

[–] BombOmOm@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Luckily AMD cards (and their control software) don't have this requirement.

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[–] nac82@lemm.ee 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

He's an idiot. You don't have to sign in to windows 11 to set it up, I literally do this daily. Not to mention corporate computers shouldn't be seeing the personal computer sign in screen to begin with unless it's in the hands of IT like me who would know what to do with it.

There used to be a skip button until about a month ago. Now, you just have to input bad creds and move forward.

Unlike Twitter, which actually locks down most of its site without an account...

Idiot just doesn't like getting called out for his idiocy and hypocrisy.

[–] General_Shenanigans@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

Oh, there’s no way Elon wants a machine with a company image on it.

He probably bought a Win11 S-mode laptop, not knowing what that was.

[–] Nommer@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

He only cares because it's annoying to him. He doesn't give a rats ass otherwise.

[–] jtk@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 8 months ago

He's probably setting up to suggest Microsoft be required to support SSO so people can log in with twitter.

[–] RanchOnPancakes@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

No. Its pretty easy to work around. He just went right to twit to be a special baby boy.

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