Microsoft doubles down on local account restrictions in Windows 11 setup

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MS wants to sell cloud services, so they need people with online accounts so they can sell these things. It works as I know some people got onedrive which they never bought before until they already had an online account.

If true this is disgusting behavior from Microsoft.
I was going to stick around because of visual studio, despite the ever increasing bloat. This might well make me pull the trigger on switching to Linux or even Mac.

Mac isn't that much better, if anything it can be worse. You need apple's online account to do stuff like use the store and other things. On top of that Apple is known to cut off software support much earlier, the shortest Mac had just 3 years of updates with longest being 8 years with average about 5 years. And Macs are a lot more picky about not letting software run on older versions. You even stop getting browser updates

Unlike Win11 (which might actually be able to run Win3.1 programs) OSX/MacOS can be rather picky about which version of the OS an application/driver set was made for.

At one point Apple decided that they no longer wished to support 32bit code/apps/drivers. Then there's the whole Intel/Apple-M thing.

However I'd rather guess that much like IE/Edge, it is rather questionable at best if anyone actually uses 'Safari' beyond finding and installing an alternate browser.

Well we don't need to guess, safari on desktop is 5.69% according to statcounter while mac is 12.21%, so almost half still use it.

Do remember that Apple far more forces you to use their own stuff. Just like if you develop on mac, you gotta use safari to debug webview for ios.

So yeah, if anyone wants long term updateable stuff and not planned obsolescence, one should stay away from Macs