Windows 10 has officially entered the final stage of its life cycle, and now that the end of the road is on the horizon, the community is becoming increasing...
Actually, it’s really shocking to say with how egregious a lot of the stuff in 10 is, but 11 really is actually worse somehow.
To my knowledge, you can still make a local account in 10 even though you’re discouraged from it. In 11, you can’t, and you literally have to do some PowerShell wizardry on install to make a local account (This matters to large corps because they don’t want every employee on an MS account, there’s still a lot of legit security reasons for locally controlled accounts). Then, even after you’ve already jumped through hoops to make a local account because the installer tells you that you can only log in with a Microsoft account, then the installed operating system has the sheer audacity to advertise at you “Why don’t you try using a Microsoft account? It’s a better and more secure than a local account!” Like fuck me that’s some anti-consumer shit.
Oh yes that really is the worst. I actually just did that powershell wizardry for my GF setting up a new laptop. But I also recall having to unplug ethernet when installing 10 (a later version of it!) in order to get the option to have a local account. Also windows (that I only have use for very specific work) often prompts me to “finish setting up my computer”, meaning logging in. Not gonna happen.
Oh and in 11 they also managed to effectively destroy efficient workflow. I had to buy a dubious thirdparty software to make the UI usable again (“StartAllBack”).
Actually, it’s really shocking to say with how egregious a lot of the stuff in 10 is, but 11 really is actually worse somehow.
To my knowledge, you can still make a local account in 10 even though you’re discouraged from it. In 11, you can’t, and you literally have to do some PowerShell wizardry on install to make a local account (This matters to large corps because they don’t want every employee on an MS account, there’s still a lot of legit security reasons for locally controlled accounts). Then, even after you’ve already jumped through hoops to make a local account because the installer tells you that you can only log in with a Microsoft account, then the installed operating system has the sheer audacity to advertise at you “Why don’t you try using a Microsoft account? It’s a better and more secure than a local account!” Like fuck me that’s some anti-consumer shit.
Oh yes that really is the worst. I actually just did that powershell wizardry for my GF setting up a new laptop. But I also recall having to unplug ethernet when installing 10 (a later version of it!) in order to get the option to have a local account. Also windows (that I only have use for very specific work) often prompts me to “finish setting up my computer”, meaning logging in. Not gonna happen.
Oh and in 11 they also managed to effectively destroy efficient workflow. I had to buy a dubious thirdparty software to make the UI usable again (“StartAllBack”).