I don’t understand this. I’ve had two win 11 installations over about 2 years and I’ve never had a Microsoft account or had to log in to one. Am I doing something wrong?
Nah you are using it correctly. I would advise everyone to avoid the Microsoft store, I would advise everyone to avoid the play store and app store as well, but Apple showed Google and Microsoft that they can make a lot of money locking people into using them
I don’t understand this. I’ve had two win 11 installations over about 2 years and I’ve never had a Microsoft account or had to log in to one. Am I doing something wrong?
Nah you are using it correctly. I would advise everyone to avoid the Microsoft store, I would advise everyone to avoid the play store and app store as well, but Apple showed Google and Microsoft that they can make a lot of money locking people into using them
You’re doing something right. Theres been a lot of news about them taking that ability away.
You missed the change where you need an account.
Couldn’t you also make a throwaway ms account?
I could, but them I’m up a creek later if I need to use any recovery functionality, as it all ties back to that MS cloud account.
It’s certainly possible to get working, disable all of the cloud saves and telemetry, and then just save the MS account in a password vault for later.
But all of that is much more work than clicking “next” a few times in the Linux Mint installer. ¯_(ツ)_/¯