Windows 11 for you Microsoft guys
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I hope he's not using an android or iphone; considering those also require specific accounts to use. Annoying I agree but considering the way everything is going....it is nice not having to manually input 100 contacts into your phone when you get a new one though.
OneDrive is not enabled by default, you have to sign into it before using. You are not forced to use M365 programs.
TPM stuff I'm not well versed in, but it seems like to be a big enough issue for him to have half his video on it.
OneDrive is not enabled by default, you have to sign into it before using. You are not forced to use M365 programs.
TPM stuff I'm not well versed in, but it seems like to be a big enough issue for him to have half his video on it.
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My work computer is owned by the government and runs an especially wonderful version of W11. It's so awesome...
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Video well worth watching, thanks for sharing.
The question is- what are truly feasible alternatives.
The question is- what are truly feasible alternatives.
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Most operating systems have matured and are good enough for personal use nowadays, bar the use of some specific softare (design, imaging, etc), which is not always available for Linux.
And LibreOffice is mature enough for most needs.
What is not true however is that Microsoft is the universal evil (it used to be, but sadly many companies nowadays are way nastier than it is) and especially that anybody, using Microsoft products for any reason at all, is an idiot. And those are statements that are around a lot.
Fintech companies, engineering companies and such, use tools and often - Excel add-ins, where the whole Windows system - hardware and all - is but a pale drop in the bucket of what was paid for that specific tool or add-on.
Especially for Excel, one can praise alternatives till they foam at the mouth - the second some obscure Excel plugin that no one ever heard about, but that fintech can't live without, is mentioned - that's it. It needs Excel to run, period. Data Science will scream for Linux - they'll get it on WSL to run on their Windows machine with Docker and whatnot, then they'll pull that table with 2-million rows and gazillion pivot points, and that fat add-in that only exists for Excel, and will let it churn overnight. We're not talking viscosity chart on two sheets here, we're talking live populating of a boatload of cells and rows from different sources and whatnot.
At the end of the day those are tools, and you need the tool that does the job and most important - on which the operator is trained. Most design shops are on Apple not because Macs are better - it's simply because they were bred and fed on Macs in design schools, and that's what they know and understand. Persuading a good designer to work in a Windows shop will require higher pay, or retraining - both things that negate whatever savings were made by putting them on Windows vs Mac (and those are not even that different in price nowadays, as the Photoshop and Illustrator subscription costs the same between the two).
And LibreOffice is mature enough for most needs.
What is not true however is that Microsoft is the universal evil (it used to be, but sadly many companies nowadays are way nastier than it is) and especially that anybody, using Microsoft products for any reason at all, is an idiot. And those are statements that are around a lot.
Fintech companies, engineering companies and such, use tools and often - Excel add-ins, where the whole Windows system - hardware and all - is but a pale drop in the bucket of what was paid for that specific tool or add-on.
Especially for Excel, one can praise alternatives till they foam at the mouth - the second some obscure Excel plugin that no one ever heard about, but that fintech can't live without, is mentioned - that's it. It needs Excel to run, period. Data Science will scream for Linux - they'll get it on WSL to run on their Windows machine with Docker and whatnot, then they'll pull that table with 2-million rows and gazillion pivot points, and that fat add-in that only exists for Excel, and will let it churn overnight. We're not talking viscosity chart on two sheets here, we're talking live populating of a boatload of cells and rows from different sources and whatnot.
At the end of the day those are tools, and you need the tool that does the job and most important - on which the operator is trained. Most design shops are on Apple not because Macs are better - it's simply because they were bred and fed on Macs in design schools, and that's what they know and understand. Persuading a good designer to work in a Windows shop will require higher pay, or retraining - both things that negate whatever savings were made by putting them on Windows vs Mac (and those are not even that different in price nowadays, as the Photoshop and Illustrator subscription costs the same between the two).
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You can definitely setup a local account and skip logging into a Microsoft account by using the oobe/bypassnro command, at least on the versions I have on USB drives here locally. I know there is talk about that command going away, so then you'd just use an older copy to make the install.
There's also a program that you can run to disable all the telemetry and other undesirable things 11 does:
https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil
There's also a program that you can run to disable all the telemetry and other undesirable things 11 does:
https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil
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YouTube is suspiciously deleting videos and giving out strikes to tech channels for showing how to bypass Windows 11 system requirements and creating local accounts. And YouTube is hiding behind their AI 'help' by providing no answers. It sounds like clickbait paranoia but it seems to be legit.
Check CyberCPU's last two videos as an example. He's not the only one this has happened to in the last few days.
https://www.youtube.com/@CyberCPU/videos
Not sure what YouTube's motivation is for this since they are a Google property and not a Microsoft one, but who knows if they have made some sort of mutually-beneficial arrangement.
Check CyberCPU's last two videos as an example. He's not the only one this has happened to in the last few days.
https://www.youtube.com/@CyberCPU/videos
Not sure what YouTube's motivation is for this since they are a Google property and not a Microsoft one, but who knows if they have made some sort of mutually-beneficial arrangement.
