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Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account (www.theverge.com)

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[–] CanadaGeese@lemmy.zip 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

On iOS, apple barely shoves their bloatware down your throat. Their methodology is the opposite actually. Simplistic and debloated, for the most part. Google doesnt force you into anything either. There are alternative software that you can use.

With windows the only alternative is Linux, but a small fraction of people know about let alone use Linux so thats not really in the conversation.

Windows wants to force you to make an account/log in with one which cant be done offline unless you do some commandline workarounds in win11. The issue is, this is a PC. Not an iPhone. Not a Samsung. It is your own dedicated hardware that you should be able to use as you please without being forced into an online-only system that forces copilot down your throat.

Your pc isnt “a Microsoft computer”, its a computer that happens to run an operating system made by Microsoft.