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I worked around several of those pain points: - A requirement of a non-local Microsoft account to install or use it, with no opt-out With some effort, you c
by skirmish 2y ago
I worked around several of those pain points:
- A requirement of a non-local Microsoft account to install or use it, with no opt-out
With some effort, you can use local account: https://www.windowscentral.com/how-set-windows-11-without-microsoft-account https://www.windowscentral.com/how-set-windows-11-without-mi...
- Ads in our face
- A worse start menu
- A worse taskbar
Fix Explorer with Explorer Patcher: https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher . It was unusable otherwise for me.
- NBJack 2y ago> With some effort, you can use local account For now. Microsoft has been trying to close that for a while, and I suspect the only thing keeping some of it alive is the stark security requirements some of their corporate/business customers mandate.
- gausswho 2y agoThe existence of these workarounds allow Microsoft to achieve their goals. It doesn't behoove them to tighten the screws completely, because they still get to capture the vast majority who do what they're told to. And after enough years of acceptance of surveillance creep, the Overton window will have shifted enough that subverting these controls will be perceived by normies as suspicious behavior.
- amyfp214 2y agoledragonx windebloat tools my friend, your life will become much better. it strips out sooooooooooo much adware. It's like every service in windows from MS, dozens of them, all has telemetry. WHen it runs it's like getting a colonic and you think to yourself "wow, all that was in there?!?"