1030
Microsoft really wants Local accounts gone after it erases its guide on how to create them
(www.xda-developers.com)
this post was submitted on 24 Jun 2024
1030 points (99.2% liked)
Technology
59390 readers
2960 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related content.
- Be excellent to each another!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
Approved Bots
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I was able to circumvent all of this on my Windows 10 machine, by installing Linux Mint.
I didn't even have to throw out my PC for not being good enough for Windows 11.
This is what I'm going to have to do as well since my computer isn't compatible with Win11. The only thing I'm worried about is gaming.
Depends on what you are playing, but gaming in Linux has come a long way. Some games won't work due to companies not enabling their (rootkit) "anti-cheats" for Linux, but other than that, there's more and more games that simply work by the day. Check out https://www.protondb.com/ to get an idea of what's working at the moment.
Also, ProtonDB might not always be right with their ratings. For example, Dead by Daylight is marked as "Silver" though it's been working perfectly with no tinkering. I think the ratings take time to improve?
You might misunderstand how their "ratings" work - they simply collect all reports and when people had trouble with the game before, and gave a negative or "tinkering required" rating, it will show in the overall stats.