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

Psaldorn , 4 months ago

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

BombOmOm , 4 months ago

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

SaltySalamander , 4 months ago

I legit haven't used GFE since they began requiring a login to use it.

stackPeek , 4 months ago

Peak journalism

empireOfLove2 , 4 months ago

The more funny part of this statement is he's too fucking dumb to Google "set up windows 11 without Microsoft account" and follow exactly 3 steps to bypass the OOBE wizard.

Diotima , 4 months ago

To be fair, the option is pretty easy to miss for someone who isn't technical. Font size -11000 and grwy or whatever, though I might exaggerate.

conciselyverbose , 4 months ago

They break whatever process people use whenever they feel like it.

Whether the loopholes are incompetence or just for the sake of them being able to claim "you don't need an account", they definitely aren't stable and consistent options. And it's pretty clear that at some point they're going to cross the line and just make you have an account.

ChaoticNeutralCzech , 4 months ago

What? Ctrl+F10 for Command Prompt and then oobe\bypassnro has always worked, and I don't see Microsoft removing it anytime soon. Who do you think put the bypassnro.bat script in the OOBE directory on every Windows installation media?

uzay , 4 months ago

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

slurpeesoforion , 4 months ago

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

banichan , 4 months ago

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/69355c3f-2a94-447c-bfd0-3e4662707129.jpeg

shortwavesurfer , 4 months ago

Who uses Windows 11 anyway? I've personally been running Linux since 2017, and rarely have to touch Windows these days.

dogslayeggs , 4 months ago

Who uses Windows 11 anyway?

Roughly 19.5% of all computers worldwide run Windows 11. While I don't know the exact number of computers in the world, that has to be in the multiple billions. So, yeah, a lot of people use Windows 11.

PeterPoopshit , 4 months ago

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

snek , 4 months ago

Enough fucking Musk spam, we already know this. We didn't need some rich jackass to validate this.

bigkahuna1986 , 4 months ago

I for one get all my opinions from Elon Musk. Saves time and energy trying to come up with my own!

catloaf , 4 months ago

Hmm yes

Technology

ZeroCool , 4 months ago

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

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Kbobabob , 4 months ago

A great point? It's not even true.

BestBouclettes , 4 months ago

Buy Microsoft you fucking coward

Octopus1348 , 4 months ago

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

dhork , 4 months ago

He can rename it Windows X11 and piss off everyone

Octopus1348 , 4 months ago

Lmao

Pistcow , 4 months ago

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

BestBouclettes , 4 months ago

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

RmDebArc_5 , 4 months ago

You mean Xcel?

jamyang , 4 months ago

Can't Libre Office take the place of MSO?

breakingcups , 4 months ago

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

Sanctus , 4 months ago

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

Octopus1348 , 4 months ago

I mean, I don't like that either but it doesn't affect links to tweets.

nix , 4 months ago

It very often does

TheEntity , 4 months ago

Single tweets are rarely useful without being able to read some context that isn't visible without logging in.

tsonfeir , 4 months ago

Send me a link

Octopus1348 , 4 months ago

https://twitter.com/LinusTech/status/1762585367176511694?s=19

It doesn't show replies though.

tsonfeir , 4 months ago

The link works for me.

qupada , 4 months ago

It does however affect getting updates from government agencies, and others who insist on only disseminating real-time information to the public via Twitter.

For instance: https://twitter.com/WakaKotahiWgtn

This is the account for traffic events (road closures, traffic accidents, etc) in my city. Not signed in, the latest visible post is from February 2023.

Since I don't have a twitter account, this is now functionally useless.

Fiivemacs , 4 months ago

Go to the city's website, they should still have that information accessable via government sites. Buried, but it should still exist.

BassTurd , 4 months ago

While true, the point is that Twitter does require sign in to view content, regardless of that information is elsewhere.

breden , 4 months ago

Have you tried contacting your government for this issue? From my experience public services are often open about Mastodon once they realize it's the same thing as Twitter, but accessible to everyone.

BassTurd , 4 months ago

I have not. I personally don't live in a region where disaster notices are often necessary and I don't have offspring that I have to care for that may be affected, so I'm not really the demographic for the service. I do hope more and more start branching out to the likes of Mastodon or maybe better yet, hosting their own instances.

threelonmusketeers , 4 months ago

the latest visible post is from February 2023

If you scroll down far enough, there are posts from March and August, but they were "less popular" tweets. Incredibly annoying move by twitter. Who wants to regularly view tweets sorted by "Top All Time"?

beirut_bootleg , 4 months ago

Wow so bold!

db2 , 4 months ago

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

pizza_the_hutt , 4 months ago

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

MowFord , 4 months ago

You can get around it by disconnecting the Internet during setup

shalafi , 4 months ago

Used to work, not now.

SHIFT+F10

cd OOBE

bypassnro

Reboot.

NocturnalMorning , 4 months ago (edited 4 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.

Edit: This was on setup of the pc. Don't remember the commands, but should be easy to find on google.