That's odd, I don't have any of those accounts yet I still use phones, tablets and general purpose computers and servers daily. Linux works fine without any suc

That's odd, I don't have any of those accounts yet I still use phones, tablets and general purpose computers and servers daily. Linux works fine without any such accounts. Android works fine without one. Windows 10 might give problems in the consumer-oriented versions but the enterprise version is yet free from such misery, configure it without the MS store and you're mostly free. Mozilla is also getting a bit pushy with their sync accounts and the lack of usable self-hosted options so I do without such functionality for now where I used to host my own sync server before the switch to the new-and-'improved' version. So yes, being pushed towards creating online accounts for general purpose computing is a problem.