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Elon Musk finally says something we can all agree on: No one wants to have to log in with a Microsoft Account on Windows 11

www.pcgamer.com Elon Musk finally says something we can all agree on: No one wants to have to log in with a Microsoft Account on Windows 11

In other news, birds fall from sky, pig spotted flying past PC Gamer window.

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Just like no one wants to sign into Twitter to read one tweet.

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Enough fucking Musk spam, we already know this. We didn't need some rich jackass to validate this.

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- I for one get all my opinions from Elon Musk. Saves time and energy trying to come up with my own!
  
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Ugh... I guess it's time to dust off this classic:

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- A great point? It's not even true.
  
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This just in: broken clock is right twice a day.

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- Not if broken because it's missing the hands
  
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  It's implied it has hands.
  
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  Oh dear, its 0:00. Time for me to go home...
  
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- He's literally wrong. You can set up windows 11 devices without a sign in.
  
  While being wrong about this, the idiot forces sign in to use twitter...
  
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Wow, I wonder about his opinion on stubbing your toe.

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Cool yeah, no one wants to have to log in with a Twitter account either.

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Who gives a fuckingdickleshit about this asshole

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- No one. These are just bots shilling.
  
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  Everyone is a bot.
  
  Even you ...
  
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How about we go a step further and say that I don't want to have to sign into ANY online account to access my computer.

If I disconnect my Ethernet cable, I can still log in and get work done. That should be the absolute MINIMUM that is expected of any operating system.

Linux is sometimes a royal pain in the ass, but it's for precisely that reason that it's important that it and Foss options like it are supported.

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No one wants to log in to look at twitter posts either

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- No one wants to ~~log in to~~ look at twitter posts either
  
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Not really a contraversial opinion.

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Hmm yes

Technology

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Buy Microsoft you fucking coward

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- The entire global economy is held together by Excel. No thank you
  
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  You mean Xcel?
  
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  We still have COBOL and AS400. We'll be fine!
  
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  Can't Libre Office take the place of MSO?
  
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Wow so bold!

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I also hate having to login every 10 minutes to another windows password shit because hey it's secure!

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This shithead posts the stupidest shit and people make it viral.

I understand how people are fucked up about that

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I'm going to log in with a burner Microsoft account on unactivated Windows 11 to spite both assholes.

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- You don't even need a Microsoft account. You can get around it with by using Rufus to create the Windows 11 installer.
  
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  I had to figure out the command to bring up the command console to not log in with a Microsoft account. It was super dumb. I had to turn something off in the system as a workaround, which meant a bunch of googling.
  
  There is zero reason for me to have a Microsoft account associated with my computer just to use it.
  
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  You can get around it by disconnecting the Internet during setup
  
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Oh shit now Elon is going to try to buy all of Linux.

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Wait until he uses Geforce Experience.. oh boy. Every time it makes me log in AND THEN VERIFY MY EMAIL.

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- Luckily AMD cards (and their control software) don't have this requirement.
  
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- I legit haven't used GFE since they began requiring a login to use it.
  
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You don't have to. It isn't required. I setup end points everyday with local users.

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- For the general consumer Microsoft is making it as hidden as possible to make a local user during installation.
  
  When I had to reinstall windows a month or two ago the option to make a local machine user was not there until I unplugged the ethernet or brought up a terminal to force the installer to show the option.
  
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  To be fair, for the average consumer there are huge advantages to using a MSA.
  
  Both Windows Hello and OneDrive bring both security and convenience to non-technical people in a big way.
  
  There is no good reason the average non-techie user should be using a local Windows account in a cloud world.
  
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- Business class is a different license. Likely enterprise or volume.
  
  It requires some registry or command line crap to deal with it on consumer grade Windows.
  
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  Command line crap? yes. Registry crap? No.
  
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He's an idiot. You don't have to sign in to windows 11 to set it up, I literally do this daily. Not to mention corporate computers shouldn't be seeing the personal computer sign in screen to begin with unless it's in the hands of IT like me who would know what to do with it.

There used to be a skip button until about a month ago. Now, you just have to input bad creds and move forward.

Unlike Twitter, which actually locks down most of its site without an account...

Idiot just doesn't like getting called out for his idiocy and hypocrisy.

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- Oh, there’s no way Elon wants a machine with a company image on it.
  
  He probably bought a Win11 S-mode laptop, not knowing what that was.
  
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He only cares because it's annoying to him. He doesn't give a rats ass otherwise.

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- He's probably setting up to suggest Microsoft be required to support SSO so people can log in with twitter.
  
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Peak journalism

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No. Its pretty easy to work around. He just went right to twit to be a special baby boy.

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You could just put in a made up email and pass. I personally go with 123@fake.com

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I only keep twitter installed so I can check service outages.

Why do I need a twitter account to do that?

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The more funny part of this statement is he's too fucking dumb to Google "set up windows 11 without Microsoft account" and follow exactly 3 steps to bypass the OOBE wizard.

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- To be fair, the option is pretty easy to miss for someone who isn't technical. Font size -11000 and grwy or whatever, though I might exaggerate.
  
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- They break whatever process people use whenever they feel like it.
  
  Whether the loopholes are incompetence or just for the sake of them being able to claim "you don't need an account", they definitely aren't stable and consistent options. And it's pretty clear that at some point they're going to cross the line and just make you have an account.
  
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  What? Ctrl+F10 for Command Prompt and then oobe\bypassnro has always worked, and I don't see Microsoft removing it anytime soon. Who do you think put the bypassnro.bat script in the OOBE directory on every Windows installation media?
  
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This title makes me decide never to upvote any post linking to pcgamer site. And never site the site of course.

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But then how is Microsoft going to subscription service us to death?

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In other news, birds fall from sky, pig spotted flying past PC Gamer window.

Then why the fuck did you post this!?

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Can't believe I have to agree with this asshole for once.

Also, can't you just use pGina or GPO in place of a Microsoft account?

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and at the same time he only lets you use twitter with an account and killed thirdparty apps on mobile.

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Who uses Windows 11 anyway? I've personally been running Linux since 2017, and rarely have to touch Windows these days.

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- Who uses Windows 11 anyway?
  
  Roughly 19.5% of all computers worldwide run Windows 11. While I don't know the exact number of computers in the world, that has to be in the multiple billions. So, yeah, a lot of people use Windows 11.
  
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- Who uses Windows 11 anyway?
  
  99% of the world.
  
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  I don't think Windows even has a 99% market share because of Mac and Linux. And even if it did, you've still got a lot of users on Windows 10 and possibly Windows 8. So that seems rather high.
  
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