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Windows 10 will start pushing users to use Microsoft accounts. How to turn it off. (mashable.com)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Well, Microsoft is getting ready to annoy its faithful Windows 10 user base with yet another prompt. This time, Microsoft wants Windows 10 users to switch from using a local account to their online Microsoft account.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

Still sad because my Precision 5560 (same as XPS 9510) has this floaty trackpad bug on Ubuntu and Pop OS for whatever reason! (I haven't tried any other distro). Much easier for me to swap to Linux on my laptop than my desktop because my laptop is just for Python, LaTeX, and MATLAB.

Dell even sells a 5560 with Ubuntu preinstalled, but they don't make it available for users. But I have not for the life of me been able to get the track-pad bug to go away.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Here's the fix (yoinked from archwiki)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Sadly I've been at this thread and done this already, did not work :(

People think it's just due to the trackpads being crap (and somehow Windows gets around it). I'll probably never need to buy another laptop, but if I do I will probably not buy a Dell again regardless of how much I love every other aspect of this laptop.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Try a more modern kernel. Lookup installing mainline kernels on Ubuntu. Pretty easy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

You could wait a couple of days and try ubuntu 24.04

with its much newer kernel it might not have that issue