To all Linux users. Help out the new ones, explain calmly and make them feel welcome so that they can contribute back later too.
this post was submitted on 03 Jan 2026
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Dear Microsoft,
Could you please squeeze your users a little harder yet.
We're eager for the year of the linux desktop.
Microslop*
Couldn't you theoretically download an ISO for an older version of Win 11, install that offline without an account, then update it to the latest version?
Well.....here's the thing. Step 1 of your plan is to install windows 11.
In the words of Manny Calavera:
"I don't really want to do that...."
I've installed a more recent version of Win11 without network and local account was still working. I also recently found that the IoT Enterprise version cuts out Copilot AND the Windows store in the base install. So IoT + Massgrave ftw.
Probably. I think the update will ask for your account at some point though (I don't really use windows though, so you probably want a second opinion on that).
I believe they get weird about local accounts on recent versions of 11, even ones that already existed. I'm not going to verify, but yeah I think the point is they're moving towards them basically not existing.
If something is beneficial to the side with more negotiating power and is practical to do, it happens.
It wasn't plausible when Internet connectivity for accounts on local machines wasn't a given always everywhere.
And it wasn't that important for them.
Now both have changed enough.
Also I think all stable continuous changes of mass where single person doesn't change much are predictable, similarly to Asimov's Foundation (except there it was presented as something a virtuous genius does to help humanity, not quite how life works).
So expecting Microsoft and others to break their dicks is infantile. I think they'll succeed fully inside their strategic definition, their model, one can say.
Where anything divergent and interesting can happen is the fringes. Like Reticulum, Briar, hobbyist weak hardware, technologies that will emerge occasionally without mass economic pressure. Toys and jokes.
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I moved three Win 10 boxes to linux mint cinnamon this week. Twenty more and I'll have made good progress on my little nonprofit. But I'm probably at least a decade from being able to go 100% away from windows and Mac's. Fuck em both.
Good on ya.
You could always just install Linux Mint and then install the Mint XP theme. No Microsoft Account required.
To hell with Microslop.
People need to have some dignity. When an OS becomes an ant-privacy ad serving platform first and foremost, it's time to ditch it!
My newest computer came with Windows 11. I ran it for a few weeks and wiped it and installed Bazzite Linux. I have had virtually no issues and honestly it's been a fantastic experience.
I do have an older laptop running Win 10 for a handful of programs that I haven't figured out how to get to work under Linux yet, but it's just a matter of time.
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FUCK MICROSOFT
Microslop*
There are offline environments that cannot do it online, this is bullshit. Working with critical infrastructure in OT networks, Microsoft is basically saying that Windows should not be used anymore in those.
Problem is that OT is full of legacy shit, so switching to Linux is more easily said than done.
Microsoft is basically saying that Windows should not be used anymore in those.
I would agree with them.
From what I remember, some of those airgapped environments still use windows XP, so they're not bothered too much by this
There is every OS released in last 40 years running in these air-gapped OT networks. New and Old.
I have the same struggles, Amen!
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I installed Mint on my main computer yesterday. ^_^ Super done with Windows! Now I just have to convince my husband to let me install it on his computer, too. 🤔
I just moved my main PC to CachyOS like two weeks ago. It's been quite nice so far actually. Minor hiccup when trying to play The Guild 2 (had to use Protontricks to download DirectPlay)
Such a fucking PITA, as a small IT shop, I don't want to have to full on fucking go enterprise to keep my users from needing to make Microsoft accounts.
Good thing I am no longer on it. Going forward if I ever get a new laptop I am going to setup linux mint (or another distro) on it right away, thus activating it without it. Being connected to the internet in the first place.
Been using Mint since last April. Haven't missed a thing.
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