<story><title>Microsoft removes documentation for switching to a local account in Windows 11</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/06/microsoft-removes-documentation-for-switching-to-a-local-account-in-windows-11/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ryanjshaw</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve been a Windows user since 3.1. I&amp;#x27;m a professional Microsoft stack developer (.NET, SQL Server, Power Platform, M365). I first tried Linux in the late 90s, never stuck with me.&lt;p&gt;But 2 weeks ago I installed Linux on my home setup to run 24&amp;#x2F;7.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s some seriously dumb issues with it: Ubuntu snaps are terrible with no local fonts in FF and other snap-based software has surprising bugs and crashes you don&amp;#x27;t realise are the fault of snaps until you waste hours researching it, everybody pushes AppImages but you can&amp;#x27;t get launcher shortcuts without doing it all manually in a friggin .desktop file* (you could do this 30 years ago in Win3.1 without having to search around for an icon!!!), you can&amp;#x27;t consistently pin stuff to a taskbar, etc.&lt;p&gt;But I think I&amp;#x27;ll be sticking with it all the same. Microsoft could ban my Microsoft account and then what, I can&amp;#x27;t use my PC anymore?!&lt;p&gt;* Yes I know there&amp;#x27;s some software you can download to do it but seriously it&amp;#x27;s not been updated for ages and this should be core OS GUI functionality. I switched to Debian and KDE which at least has more flexibility.</text></item><item><author>xlii</author><text>Geez, the more I read about it the more I think about migrating my gaming machine to something like Pop_OS. I heard people are having great experience, and Steam through Steam Deck has considerably improved gaming on Linux experience.&lt;p&gt;I think I get it - there are plenty of people using Windows as their primary OS and they want bells and whistles while not caring about telemetry. But just.. let people disable things.&lt;p&gt;IMO fact, that Microsoft is pushing spyware on their users and make it harder and harder to disable it is much more important topic than EU focusing on Apple (which is monopoly inside their ecosystem, but not a provider of &amp;quot;default&amp;quot; software used in offices etc.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jjice</author><text>&amp;gt; There&amp;#x27;s some seriously dumb issues with it: Ubuntu snaps are terrible...&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s so upsetting that Ubuntu went so hard in on Snaps. I just end up with issues caused by their sandboxing with hardware and config access and you end up having to fight to find a normal .deb install for FF instead of that damn default Snap.&lt;p&gt;I hope the journey isn&amp;#x27;t too rough for you though - best of luck!</text></comment>
<story><title>Microsoft removes documentation for switching to a local account in Windows 11</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/06/microsoft-removes-documentation-for-switching-to-a-local-account-in-windows-11/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ryanjshaw</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve been a Windows user since 3.1. I&amp;#x27;m a professional Microsoft stack developer (.NET, SQL Server, Power Platform, M365). I first tried Linux in the late 90s, never stuck with me.&lt;p&gt;But 2 weeks ago I installed Linux on my home setup to run 24&amp;#x2F;7.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s some seriously dumb issues with it: Ubuntu snaps are terrible with no local fonts in FF and other snap-based software has surprising bugs and crashes you don&amp;#x27;t realise are the fault of snaps until you waste hours researching it, everybody pushes AppImages but you can&amp;#x27;t get launcher shortcuts without doing it all manually in a friggin .desktop file* (you could do this 30 years ago in Win3.1 without having to search around for an icon!!!), you can&amp;#x27;t consistently pin stuff to a taskbar, etc.&lt;p&gt;But I think I&amp;#x27;ll be sticking with it all the same. Microsoft could ban my Microsoft account and then what, I can&amp;#x27;t use my PC anymore?!&lt;p&gt;* Yes I know there&amp;#x27;s some software you can download to do it but seriously it&amp;#x27;s not been updated for ages and this should be core OS GUI functionality. I switched to Debian and KDE which at least has more flexibility.</text></item><item><author>xlii</author><text>Geez, the more I read about it the more I think about migrating my gaming machine to something like Pop_OS. I heard people are having great experience, and Steam through Steam Deck has considerably improved gaming on Linux experience.&lt;p&gt;I think I get it - there are plenty of people using Windows as their primary OS and they want bells and whistles while not caring about telemetry. But just.. let people disable things.&lt;p&gt;IMO fact, that Microsoft is pushing spyware on their users and make it harder and harder to disable it is much more important topic than EU focusing on Apple (which is monopoly inside their ecosystem, but not a provider of &amp;quot;default&amp;quot; software used in offices etc.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>necrotic_comp</author><text>Agreed with the sibling posts. Ubuntu isn&amp;#x27;t a great experience - it feels seamless until it breaks, and then it&amp;#x27;s just a world of pain.&lt;p&gt;Debian&amp;#x2F;Mint&amp;#x2F;etc. are all good distros, but if you&amp;#x27;re willing to step up the learning curve just a bit, I&amp;#x27;d definitely suggest Gentoo. I&amp;#x27;ve been using it as my daily driver for several years now and it&amp;#x27;s made me feel like I&amp;#x27;m actually in control of my machine (compiling all your code with debug flags so you can attach gdb when it&amp;#x27;s behaving weird so you can write a patch?! And then submit it to get sucked into upstream!? Yes please!). There&amp;#x27;s definitely a little work up front, but it&amp;#x27;s without a doubt the best experience I&amp;#x27;ve had with Linux and I&amp;#x27;d recommend it if you&amp;#x27;re up for it.</text></comment>