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Microsoft's Windows 11 push backfired, so it's quietly keeping Windows 10 alive for another year (www.xda-developers.com)
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[–] rekabis@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago

Signing in with a Microsoft account is what they really want you to do.

And for the sake of your personal data, it’s the absolute last thing you should ever submit to.

The number of people who have lost their entire digital life thanks to losing access to their Microsoft Account (doubly so now that BitLocker auto-engages, which makes direct extraction from the drive impossible) is just too damn high.

Always, always create a local account on install. That path is still available, even through USB installer builders like RUFUS.