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And local (offline) accounts when?

🇪🇺the🇪🇺land🇪🇺of🇪🇺the🇪🇺free🇪🇺

The home of the brave, and the land of the free.

Imagine living somewhere where those in charge have even there smallest bit of spine.

This is why when u pirate windows u always pirate the European version. Not that I condone pirating windows that would be immoral and wrong.

Microsoft is grudgingly forced to give...*

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Microsoft: "Suck it, Americans"

And again; repeat after me: install Linux already. Just get it over with, demand Linux work stations at work,use Linux for yourself and for the first time ever experience freedom on your computer

Perhaps sometime in the future, more people will try Linux and see how good it is. My recommendation based on my own experience:

Want stable, just working. Robust workhorse: Try Debian

Want newest, nicest, good for gaming (need a tiny bit of tinkering if you run Nvidia): Try Fedora

Want easy to install, but a bit older and slower, but requires no tinkering: Try PopOS

Don't like settings, tweaks and fuzz: choose Gnome desktop 😊

I'm morbidly eager to see how they'll handle the Win 10 EoL (yeah, yeah, it ain't dyin', just not getting updated, same thing to me tbh) in October. I bet it'll be a shitshow.

So being able to uninstall apps on your computer is news?

Huh, well ill continue living without all that shit on Linux Mint.

For those curious, if you can get a European Windows product key, you can install the "N" version of Windows. Be warned, it only works with certain product keys....

The standard Windows installer should give the option of "Windows 10" or "Windows 10 N" (or similar). The N version is basically bloatware free out of the box....

The regular version has a bunch of promos pre-installed, like candy crush, and other things that most people couldn't give a shit about....

Recently I've been playing a "fun" game with my work laptop where I'll remove copilot, and a few days later it will appear again. Weeee. In that case, it wouldn't surprise me if there's a policy in place to enable copilot on my works systems.... I'm sure someone who works here, probably higher up the food chain than me, wants it enabled, and the ham fisted policy maker can't create a policy just for those who want it, so everyone gets it because the bosses son Shane decided that he wants to see how much of his work can get done by AI so he can do even less while on the clock.

Too little too late? Some European businesses have already made the change to open source. Shit should be free to anyone doing business with it anyway.

Wanted to play a game on my kid's computer that had windows 11 N or some shit. Couldn't play because it needed the "media pack", which in its turn installs everything N stands for. Clown world.

IF YOU'RE NOT IN THE EU, you can use O&O ShutUp to help you turn off the more intrusive aspects of Windows with ease.

So.. they’re doing exactly what apple was forced to do.

Windows users are a revenue stream, not customers. M$ views it's users as a sort of raw material that can be processed with dark patterns for ads and subscriptions. And like everything else, Americans are treated with the most disrespect and coercion.

Make it world wide!

European Union users

Because the EU at least remotely cares about it's citizens.

Now let's try the USA! How much does the USA cares about it's citizens? Not all at the same time, please!

Am i missing something? If i had edge, store and bing forced down my throat my win11 install wouldve been long gone, but imo thst stuff was already removable before?