Comment by firefoxd
1 month ago
The problem isn't just that new installs will require this, but if you are on Windows 11, there are a hundred accidental ways to create a Microsoft account. Sometimes it's disguised as an update, or a sneaky notification. Sometimes it's onedrive, or you are trying to login via Edge. It reminds me of how Google was trying to trick us all into getting a Google+ account.
MS: "One way or another, you are creating an account so help me God."
I don't mind an MS account to be honest.
My problem is that Windows fucks up my user name when I log in to my account when setting up a new machine. I drives me up the wall.
My name is Daniel. My name on my MS account is Daniel. When I log in to a new Windows machine, the fucking thing decides my user name, and therefore my user folder, is "Danie". This is NOT my name, it's a different name that is not mine and it makes my computer grating to use every time.
For some retarded reason, windows does not allow online account users to have a username longer than 5 chars, so it goes and truncates whatever the first name it gets back from the mothership when logging in. A local account does not have this issue.