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Windows 10 will start pushing users to use Microsoft accounts. How to turn it off. (mashable.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Well, Microsoft is getting ready to annoy its faithful Windows 10 user base with yet another prompt. This time, Microsoft wants Windows 10 users to switch from using a local account to their online Microsoft account.

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

NixOS is the tidiest. Having all your configurations in one or two files is excellent

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

As a NixOS user myself, I wouldn't recommend it to someone new to Linux.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The person never said they were new to Linux

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Aye, I used Ubuntu back when I was working retail, as I'd put it on units which didn't have Windows licences.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

How comfortable are you with using the Terminal and learning a new scripting language (called Nix)?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

The former is fine for copying and pasting. The latter probably not something I can be arsed with.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

The latter is still mostly copying and pasting too FYI, along with reading error messages that generally tell you exactly what's wrong.

Also, NixOS, is not FHS-compliant, so regular Linux binaries will not run without pagching or running it through a wrapper. AppImages work, but needs appimage-run. Flatpaks work fine as well.

I would only recommend NixOS if the concept of everything being inside of a configuration file that you can copy between machines sounds intriguing to you; otherwise, if you still want ultimate control over everything and want to use a Terminal, Arch. If you just want something that works without having to worry about configuration or copying Terminal commands, I'd go with Pop OS or Linux Mint Debian Edition.