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Windows 11’s push for mandatory Microsoft accounts is hitting a nerve with users who say the change complicates setup, privacy, and basic PC ownership (www.windowscentral.com)
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[–] 10 points 5 months ago* (6 children)

This is the actual reason i didn't end up going with win11, and tried Linux. Seemed like about a similar amount of bullshit to get to know my way around linux as it did doing regedits and getting around using an account.

I am now firmly in the camp of every option being terrible in some way.

Still using bazzite though, so it's not worse.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    Bazzite is underrated, its a great desktop os out of the box with solid gaming support.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Well, sure. Still had a bunch of unexpected weird stuff.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

    Genuine question, what was "unexpected/weird" for you?

    I don't disagree, in fact I'm in a similar situation coming to Bazzite from Windows. But I'd like to know what your experience has been like so far, Maybe I will learn something.

    My own personal gripe is that they removed Discover in favor of their own store "bazzar" and I feel its just worse in every way so I tried to put it back and now Discover will "launch" and immediately crash.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Monitor snapping issues (program opens on the wrong monitor and figuring out how to force it somewhere else), VPN program not working because it's an immutable distro, Stream deck unexpected behaviour (What functions can it use, sometimes it disconnected on a different usb hub) etc. Also some incompatibilities, can't use fusion 360 (didn't work at all last time i tried it)

    There are a few others but those come to mind.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    I have found Proton VPN works for me none of the others I've tried seem to function. I'm using it on a my livingroom pc so I don't have any input on the steam deck specific issues, in fact I prefer Steam OS and I wish there was an official desktop release already.

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