Well, Microsoft is getting ready to annoy its faithful Windows 10 user base with yet another prompt. This time, Microsoft wants Windows 10 users to switch from using a local account to their online Microsoft account.

    • @ABCDE@lemmy.world
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      08 months ago

      Aye, I used Ubuntu back when I was working retail, as I’d put it on units which didn’t have Windows licences.

      • Refurbished Refurbisher
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        18 months ago

        How comfortable are you with using the Terminal and learning a new scripting language (called Nix)?

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          8 months ago

          The former is fine for copying and pasting. The latter probably not something I can be arsed with.

          • Refurbished Refurbisher
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            28 months ago

            The latter is still mostly copying and pasting too FYI, along with reading error messages that generally tell you exactly what’s wrong.

            Also, NixOS, is not FHS-compliant, so regular Linux binaries will not run without pagching or running it through a wrapper. AppImages work, but needs appimage-run. Flatpaks work fine as well.

            I would only recommend NixOS if the concept of everything being inside of a configuration file that you can copy between machines sounds intriguing to you; otherwise, if you still want ultimate control over everything and want to use a Terminal, Arch. If you just want something that works without having to worry about configuration or copying Terminal commands, I’d go with Pop OS or Linux Mint Debian Edition.