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Windows 11’s push for mandatory Microsoft accounts is hitting a nerve with users who say the change complicates setup, privacy, and basic PC ownership (www.windowscentral.com)
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[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I just vm'd my entire win 7 machine with no nic.

[–] moopet@sh.itjust.works 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Running windows in a VM is still... running Windows. It's not idealistically different to having a dedicated Windows computer. There's nothing magical about running Linux as a host that makes Windows less evil.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 1 points 12 hours ago

We're literally talking about proprietary software that has no linux or mac equivalent. This is not the place for you to try putting the morality of windows users on trial.

[–] sefra1@lemmy.zip 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Unfortunately VMs aren't a solution for my use case since I need no latency realtime audio or GPU acceleration

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 1 points 18 hours ago

ugh. Get that. For that use case I actually ended up getting a cheap little KVM and migrated my win7 build to a rackmounted box with a CRU. No NIC, I KVM over when doing data recovery (or playing bullfrog games)