Hey y’all, today I experienced another push for Linux from our friend Microsoft. 5 minutes ago, I wanted to use the timer app on Windows, so I could manage my work/break schedule, and this fucker showed up. Yes, that’s a prompt to sign in with a Microsoft account to use the clock. If you close it, it pops up 30s later. Clicking “Don’t sign in” or closing the process responsible for displaying it is useless, and guess what… IT PAUSES THE TIMER WHEN IT SHOWS UP.

I guess this is another thing added to the super long list of things which will eventually make me switch my main workstation to Linux once win10 is discontinued.

/endrant

Hope y’all are having a great day :3

  • _____@lemm.eeEnglish
    10·
    3 months ago

    You cannot use anything without signing up. You can’t use clip champ which should require 0 Internet connectivity.

    They want to act as if linking your account is a prerequisite when it’s neither required or helpful

    • kautau@lemmy.world
      2·
      3 months ago

      Because it’s a “free” piece of software so you are the product and therefore they want you to agree that they can harvest and sell your data

      • _____@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        Except it’s not a free operating system. An operating system should fulfill the needs of its users without having to pay for basic functionality: see everyone OS ever that is not w11