• @[email protected]
    1•10 months ago

    You don’t need an account. De-bloating scripts take care of most other annoyances. You can fairly easily beat windows into submission

    • @Cypher
      16•10 months ago

      You don’t need an account.

      Technically true but worthless to your average consumer. You need to interrupt the installation process, enter a command in a terminal after knowing how to access the terminal and then you can use a local account.

      This is worthless to your average person.

      The same argument applies when Linux neckbeards waddle out of a basement to declare something is simple; just open terminal and do Y.

      • @[email protected]
        6•10 months ago

        The average consumer doesn’t know what NTFS or FAT32 is. I don’t think they’ll understand the privacy implications of Windows reporting.

      • @[email protected]
        3•10 months ago

        Not tried in a while but it used to just be a case of leaving it disconnected from the net during setup.

        Failing that you can still sign up with a throwaway account and convert it to local in the options after installation iirc. It’s not ideal but it’s still something at least.

        • @Cypher
          1•10 months ago

          There are additional steps now which I mentioned.