Note: the MacOS part is false
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but you don’t need to smell shit while eating it.
You do need to get it down your throat, but you can just keep your nose pinched with your fingers, same as MacOS.
After that, throw up as much as you like. It’s what I do. Total calories delta: 100 kcal
wild kink but I don’t judge
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Dave is amazing, and his content on YouTube is very entertaining. This is a pragmatic answer for those who want or need Windows in some capacity, and then want to go on a use local accounts. Have some decency and recognize good advice when you see it.
It only really works if you maintain access to a burner account, which might be difficult in the long term.
It’s useful information for those who need it, but the way it is presented sounds delusional and contradictory.
He says you don’t need a Microsoft account, but goes on to explain actually you do need a Microsoft account.
It just sounds like pure cope.
For some people even needing a burner account is absolutely off the table and in no way a solution, and the fact of the matter is that an account is now required.
> Content creator who got massive recognition for Windows and used to work for Microsoft
> looks inside
> WindowsI swear the people in this comm behave like Christian missionaries
Yeah I was about to say “since when” about MacOS, good thing you added the note. Windows is objectively just more data hungry than MacOS. The fact that you need to sign in to use the default calendar says it all on Windows
You actually don’t need to setup an Apple ID to startup a Mac.
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Since everyone is dogging on Dave for his MacOS comment - I doubt he even realized MacOS has a “skip” option for the Apple ID.
Weird hill to die on, guys.
That’s not what the expression “Hill to die on” means…
That’s what she said.
Ok.
Weird thing to obsess over.
Obsess? I don’t think that word means what you think it means…
He used to be a Windows engineer, so it’s not surprising he’s still using it.
You’d think that would steer you towards another OS. 😅
Drove one former program manager to spend so much effort on Linux that it became better than Windows for gaming.
Thanks Gabe.
You can open the powershell during install to get around the Microsoft id, and make a local user.
They are removing it.
Are they also removing the Rufus method?
No idea how that works.
I guess it depends how rufus actually does it? If it’s just scripting the command then it will probably be broken too.
https://schneegans.de/windows/unattend-generator/
I’m sure rufus will also still remove requirements
Linux install: maybe 10 or 15 minutes tops from booting USB to desktop access, login is local, network connection is optional.
Just set up a windows *spits rig for a family member because old. My god the insanity of it all. From untoggling shit to stop ms *spits from spying and toggling other shit to stop ms *spits from spying, and dealing with uefi settings to get it to a level of security without allowing ms *spits to lock it down cost me a full day.
Then I had to deal with the ridiculousness that is their permission system to let them browse their own files from a different hard drive.
I love that it also sets up the first user as a full admin and I had to create another account and lock down all the stupid crap that would allow them to destroy everything.
Just the initial booting was longer than it would have taken me to install and fully set up the mint distro I had ready to install on my USB stick (for the use case they’d be using)
I was going to set up a server so they could access stuff and watch free stuff on their TV with the old PC, but that will have to wait for another visit.
Even I was astounded at the length of time it took. I was expecting stupidity but ms *spits has taken it way too far.
(I did install without any account at all though, and did manage to get full GUI desktop environment Ubuntu running in wsl though, so that was fun - for me)
Can’t tell if he’s joking considering all of his videos as a former MSFT engineer.
Then again, he is a former MSFT engineer lol.
With Windows 10 eol coming up, I installed Bazzite on my buddies computer. All he just uses it for games, browser and editing the occasional document. The transition has been really seemless so far, and he is not technologically adept in the slightest.
Linux is really mature nowadays. I spent like five hours getting my NIC to work back in 2006 on my laptop. Now, it all seems to work pretty seamlessly. For people who just want to use a basic GUI and press “install” buttons, I think it’s perfectly fine.
It’s even simpler than I stalling windows.
For those who do want to continue to use Windows 10 after EOL, 0patch is providing post-EOL security updates.
He’s a former Microsoft engineer for those who don’t know
I like Dave’s channels and content. But God I hope he doesn’t start trying to wade into these sorts of debates with “hot takes”. Nothing positive will come of publicly taking a side on this issue on Twitter/Bluesky for him.
It’s not even a hot take. It’s just another way to get around MS bullshit.
At this point it’s much easier to just pirate Windows 11 Enterprise with massgrave.dev. But then again, you could also just install any Windows 10 version and sneakily activate ESU without an account. But at that point, it is even easier nowadays to just install Linux.
