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> A Microsoft account and internet connectivity is required for Windows 11 Home setup Looks like I'll be skipping windows 11 and any future windows iterations
by silicon2401 5y ago
> A Microsoft account and internet connectivity is required for Windows 11 Home setup
Looks like I'll be skipping windows 11 and any future windows iterations if this is unavoidable
- mpfundstein 5y agojust get Pro
- symlinkk 5y agoNo. Why am I paying a company more money to fix a problem they caused? I think I’ll just get a Mac.
- mk89 5y agoWhat a lame excuse to buy yourself a Mac. Totally recommended :)
- FalconSensei 5y agoTotally recommend it too. There are a few things that I don't like on Mac, but overall, works really well. And you can have a local account
- handrous 5y agoWhat's frustrating about the Mac is that every time they screw up bad enough that I try to switch back to other options (I was a Windows and Linux, among other things, user for 15 years before I started using Mac) I find they're still so much worse that I'd just be cutting off my nose to spite my face, by switching. I wish they had actual competition. It doesn't seem like anyone else is targeting the same market at all, despite technically having "competing products".
- ur-whale 5y ago> And you can have a local account For now.
- asdff 5y agoIf its anything like windows 10 was you could just never activate the license and nothing practically would be different, unless you wanted desktop backgrounds I believe. I barely notice the watermark anyhow telling me to activate windows for the last few years.
- cercatrova 5y agoOr just get a Windows keygen/updater like KMSpico.
- npteljes 5y agoThere's a digital license way of activation that doesn't even need an active service like kmspico. Just a one time activation and you're golden.
- viraptor 5y agoI've never heard of that one before, but it must be one of the most squatted domain phrases. There's like 20 versions just in top results and I could not figure out which one is official and which one just installs malware...
- xfer 5y agohttps://forums.mydigitallife.net/forums/kms-and-other-tools.51/ https://forums.mydigitallife.net/forums/kms-and-other-tools.... You probably need an account to see anything.
- Roverlord 5y agoUse your Windows 7 key if you have one.
- wongarsu 5y agoA second-hand Windows 10 Pro license costs like $25 (and used to be $5). That's a pretty small price for a substantially better experience.
- ocdtrekkie 5y agoThis is false. A pirated Windows 10 Pro license costs like $25. These are not legitimate licenses, they're overprovisioned enterprise keys being sold in violation of the license agreement. And yes, they register differently in Windows, and can be easily detected. (Command is slmgr /dli) Like, if you want to pirate software, go pirate software. If you're going to pay someone on a per-install basis for pirated keys, I'm gonna laugh at how easily you're being taken advantage of.
- wongarsu 5y agoFor $25 I can get a legitimate Windows 7 Pro license sticker that works like any Windows 10 license, which is perfectly legal all the way through. But depending on your jurisdiction, the $5 enterprise keys can also be entirely fine. Sure, in a way that's outsourcing piracy. But the law doesn't have to see it that way. There's nothing illegal about buying enterprise keys, and if they are overprovisioning keys that's between them and MS, I can't even know if that's the case.
- ClemFandango 5y agoIt's not perfectly legal, but reasonably more legal than the alternative (a key bought from a reseller). Those stickers are meant to be affixed to a machine sold by a reseller, and is only meant to be used for that machine. If the machine is destroyed and the sticker/key is kept, then it can be used, and it does register Windows Professional/Home installation rather than an Enterprise/Education installation, but is in violation of the TOS that it's provided under. That being said it is difficult to shed a tear for Microsoft of all companies over this practice.
- handrous 5y agoWait, are free pirated keys that work as reliably as paid technically-pirated enterprise keys and don't require downloading some probably-comes-pre-botnetted "hacked" Windows installer, but work flawlessly with the installer downloaded straight from Microsoft, readily available? Asking for a friend.
- vetinari 5y agoThat's exactly happened when I disabled GWX in Windows 8 Updater for about third time. "I'm too old for this sh*t", and by the next day, a new Macbook Pro was on my table.
- naikrovek 5y agowhy should I pay more for a luxury car when the SAME MANUFACTURER makes low-end cars, too?
- sixothree 5y agoAnd how exactly do you plan to install software on this Mac? It is becoming more locked down every day. You will need an account.
- NeutronStar 5y agoPay more to remove features?
- hoopleheaded 5y agoI tend to avoid accounts as much as possible but this seems a juvenile response. Do you use a smartphone?
- shp0ngle 5y agoAndroid does not require a Google account, I’m not sure about Apple and iOS but I think also not?
- hoopleheaded 5y agoSuppose you are correct that neither actually requires an account but suspect the user experience is not great without. Correct in that you can at least get through setup to have a functional device though.
- nguyenkien 5y agoBut if you want get android app from playstore, you still need google account. Same for iOS, and it's even worst than android, since you can't sideload apps
- gruez 5y ago>But if you want get android app from playstore, you still need google account nope, just use aurora store
- dolmen 5y agoFrom the terms of service https://auroraoss.com/de/download/AuroraStore/terms-of-service/ https://auroraoss.com/de/download/AuroraStore/terms-of-servi... > You agree to defend, indemnify and hold us harmless from and against any and all costs, damages, liabilities, and expenses (including attorneys' fees, costs, penalties, interest and disbursements) we incur in relation to, arising from, or for the purpose of avoiding, any claim or demand from a third party relating to your use of the Service I'm not sure what is the worst: being tied to Google or being tied to a company which wants to push me in front of Google's lawyers if they get annoyed.
- philliphaydon 5y agoLooking at windows 11 I might move back from linux.
- tryptophan 5y agoI tried Linux mint recently and was impressed. My parents seem to use it without issue. As long as you don’t game, need to use office or some other windoze software it seems like a viable choice.
- rowanG077 5y agoGames should work fine on Mint. The only reason I can't recommend Linux for most people is that there is no usable office suite. And no the libre and open office really are not usable.
- tryptophan 5y agoMy parents mostly use google office for when they need it, which is like never. Libre-office seems a little rough around the edges, but it works for 95% of use cases I can think of.
- KozmoNau7 5y agoI've been exclusively using LibreOffice for ~10 years, and OpenOffice before that, and aside from just doing some things differently (not worse) compared to MS Office, it's been smooth sailing. And for most people Google Docs or... Office 365 are all they really need.
- rowanG077 5y agoIt's simply cannot touch Microsoft Office. And Microsoft Office is already a dumbster fire. And good luck if you want interoperability.
- indigo945 5y agoWPS Office is alright for most people, if you are okay with proprietary software from a Chinese vendor. However, it obviously doesn't cover e.g. Excel power user needs. Or you can just use Google Docs, or even the browser edition of Microsoft Office.
- sixothree 5y agoJust get Pro and stop complaining.