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Aside from serving ads, a big reason they pad articles like that is for SEO. It's the same reason you see simple recipes accompanied by an out-of-place personal story.
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That's a stretch. It seems to be using the same old "local user account" code pathway NT has had for decades instead of the new "Microsoft Auth" code pathway. The OOBE script switches the pathway.
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this is how you're supposed to feel if you use big proprietary ides on bigger more proprietary operating systems
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What I mean is from UX perspective. Sure there might be some old code keeping it alive. But this is not official way of doing, and they gonna gimp local users more and more with time.
Eventually you will have to create account, and no one will protest cause it will be the norm.
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Speaking as someone who skipped from 8 to 11, I haven't yet seen a decrease in functionality in this code. In fact, it seems to be compartmentalized in such a way that it stays rather pristine. I don't expect it will stay that way, like your concern, but I haven't seen evidence of it yet. I do share your concern!
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there are probably some enterprise niggers somewhere who use windows to run some ancient incredibly fragile workflow that needs local users for reasons only known to god and some guy who retired in 2009
this type of enterprise nigger is why windows hasn't been turned into an android derivative with advanced azure 360 cloud features
or kubuntu or xubuntu
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I'm gonna have to try different versions of linux when I have the time. But the biggest reason I reccomend mint to people is because I've used it so I know its pretty good.
It performs way better than windows. So much to the point that a shitty ancient laptop I have has been given new life after an installation of mint. Like, I wont be running any video games on this thing but you'd almost think this isn't a 15 year old laptop that belonged to my dead grandmother.
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Supposedly in Pro and above you can still follow the usual path but instead of a Microsoft account you can tell it to domain join instead and then not actually join a domain.
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[kx]ubuntu are fairly similar to mint in niche and they remove canonical nigware
the funny thing about this is that mint's de cinnamon isn't known as one of the fastest desktops around
gnu/linux humiliates windows in the performance department without even trying
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Another reason is/was making the content copyrightable, to dissuade fully automated scraping (I don't know if it actually worked IRL but that was the reason given).
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Gotta shill Lubuntu in this space because I really prefer LXDE to XFCE but as always YMMV.
I'm a Debian factionist so I'd personally go with the Debian versions of these DEs, but realistically, there's little difference.
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I have xfce installed. Only programs I have is brave, vs vode, nodejs, and teamviewer.
Edit: The first time I used linux was a laptop my dad set up for me when I was a teenager and it was mint cinnamon I think. That is the biggest reason I picked mint, cause Its the only version of linux I was familiar with.
But when I have the money to drop on a new computer I'm gonna experiment with my old shitty computers. Might even try and partition the hard drive and fuck around with temple os.
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<sneed>lmao get a real editor and use it to write in a real programming language</sneed>
That's why 99% of people pick the distros they do unless they're learning and they're figuring out what distros they like.
afaik canonical templeos will only work on very specific setups
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Why LXDE specifically?
I'm pretty sure even Terry only ran Temple OS in a VM
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I find its UI more pleasant than XFCE on the whole. Purely a "personal preference" thing, seems as lightweight. I am VERY fond of LightDM in particular. I use its autologin in a LOT of places.
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It's probably also the main reason this hell company hasn't died its well-deserved death yet. After all, once you're stuck in Microsoft land, you may as well use all the other crap that comes with it and get stuck even deeper, right?
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IIRC Microslop makes a lot of their money off of Azure and Office these days. They also own things like Xbox and sell enterprise licenses for Visual Studio and probably have themselves vendor-locked in to so many businesses that they aren't at risk of going under in quite a while. Not to mention that they're involved in the LLM gold rush and every PHB on the face of the earth really wants their enterprise application to include advanced AI features right now.
Unfortunately, Windows being the only way to run 25-year-old extra crusty business applications written in a single 1.2mb VBScript file by some retard who retired 10 years ago isn't the only reason Microsoft is still in business. If they weren't so good at getting people stuck using their shit, Microsoft would have gone out of business while it was still making BASIC interpreters for shitty microcomputers.
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Have I fell into an alternate timeline? Or is this a weird difference between the OEM version and the ISO? I installed Windows 11 in a VM recently and I didn't have to do anything special to not make a Microsoft Account (I certainly didn't have to enter any commands). They just did the usual "dark pattern" routine which is easy to deal with.
(aside: There's an MSN news widget on the taskbar as if it were some ancient Internet Exploder toolbar. What the fuck is happening? How do people even tolerate Windows?)
(aside: There's an MSN news widget on the taskbar as if it were some ancient Internet Exploder toolbar. What the fuck is happening? How do people even tolerate Windows?)
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It's important to understand that most people are absolute niggercattle who think installing an ad blocker on their browser is a bigger inconvenience than wasting thousands of hours of their time on ads over the years.