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If you buy a cheap computer with Windows S it is very hard to get out of the S configuration and in S configuration you can't install Chrome at all or Firefox.
by gscott 2y ago
If you buy a cheap computer with Windows S it is very hard to get out of the S configuration and in S configuration you can't install Chrome at all or Firefox.
- gnabgib 2y agoYou can switch out of S mode (for free) https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/switching-out-of-s-mode-in-windows-4f56d9be-99ec-6983-119f-031bfb28a307 https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/switching-out-of...
- Suppafly 2y agoDoing it that way is a pain if don't want to create a microsoft account, which when tries to convert your computer account to a microsoft account. Pretending that it's easy to switch by requiring you to use the microsoft store to do so is a really shitty antipattern.
- alt227 2y ago99% of Windows users use a microsoft account these days, so this method is trivial for most.
- dboreham 2y agoNot very hard in my experience. Not even hard.
- Panzer04 2y agoBut very much nonobvious. I recently had to help one of my parents when they couldn't figure out how to install some software, and it turned out to be S - but I had to do a bunch of digging to figure it out and I'm good with computers.