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> At the same place as in my first statement, Macs are slowly showing up in places you'd never have guessed before. I switched to Macs in 2004, and have loved
by JadeNB 4y ago
> At the same place as in my first statement, Macs are slowly showing up in places you'd never have guessed before.
I switched to Macs in 2004, and have loved the experience most of the time, but fear that it's not so much that Apple is above this sort of thing as that they're a little bit behind Microsoft in doing it. Already, do you want to use iCloud? Are you sure you don't want to use iCloud? Maybe now you want to use iCloud? And it's relatively easy to ignore, but of countless small such choices is Microsoft-style user hostility made.
- a2tech 4y agoI'm aware of the things you're talking about and I also find them annoying. But I just setup a brand new Windows 11 Pro laptop and I had NO idea how bad things had gotten. By default out of the box a brand new Windows Pro install will: 1) Only let you login using a Microsoft account. No local account 2) If secure boot is enabled in the BIOS it will be locked to 'S' mode where it will only install and run software from the MS App store. You can not disable it without logging into the MS Store and downloading and running a tool to disable it. The only way I found around this was to go into the BIOS and disable Secure Boot. That immediately disabled 'S' mode. This was not documented anywhere.