• ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.worldEnglish
      72·
      3 hours ago

      I was curious about this too. I went looking and am not finding any new articles about this. Just some from a year ago saying they were intending to do this at some point in the future.

      ETA: Just logged into my laptop, which is running Windows 11 Home (it came with it and I haven’t bothered to change that yet), using a local account. I can log in fine. And there are no pending updates.

      This meme is baseless, at least right now.

      • Kaul@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        8·
        2 hours ago

        Looked into this a bit because, from my work experience, I’m pretty sure it’s a lot harder to install Windows 11 with a local account than it used to be. Most people I help are logged in with Microsoft accounts, and most of the results I get when looking at how to make a local account in Win11 are workarounds and command prompt lines.

        According to this article last year they tried removing those workarounds.

        https://www.theverge.com/news/793579/microsoft-windows-11-local-account-bypass-workaround-changes

          • Kaul@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            2·
            8 minutes ago

            I think they store the account info locally so you can login offline, but there may be restrictions to that I’m not aware of.

        • ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.worldEnglish
          31·
          2 hours ago

          So it affects new installs, but existing ones are okay (as long as you don’t want to create another new local account). Okay that makes sense. My company is pretty new, but I can’t remember if it was an extra pain in the ass to switch to a local account, or the same pain in the ass as usual.

  • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    4 hours ago

    I have Win10 on a laptop only to drive a photo scanner. I have Win10 IOT installed in VirtualBox but I haven’t started it in almost a year. I don’t think I need it anymore, but it’s there in case.

    I installed Linux Mint after first looking at Ubuntu. I don’t see any reason to leave Mint, it just works.

      • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@feddit.ukEnglish
        8·
        2 hours ago

        Favourite distro: Mint. Favourite Dr Bronner soap: ditto.

        My computer runs like a dream and my arse feels like it ate a tin of altoids. Thriving AF.

    • Eldritch@piefed.worldEnglish
      4·
      3 hours ago

      I have 30-year-old scanners that work perfectly under linux. I bought a scanner last month for my mother which also works perfectly under Linux. Is there just some special feature of the software that you need? Or does the scanner just truly not work under Linux?

      • baronvonj@piefed.socialEnglish
        4·
        1 hour ago

        I don’t want to have to interact back and forth between my computer and my scanner to scan documents. My scanner has buttons on it, I want them to work. There are very, very few scanners that will scan directly to your computer or a network drive using only the buttons on the scanner that don’t require a Windows or Mac PC running their network scan server software. And the companies that do publish their drivers and software.to Linux don’t ever seem to include the scan service component, so you have to drive the scanning operation from your computer instead of the scanner’s buttons.

        • Eldritch@piefed.worldEnglish
          2·
          1 hour ago

          Fair enough yeah. Myself I don’t mind loading up the ADF and just clicking scan in skanpage. But everyone has the workflow that works for them. And that’s valid

          • baronvonj@piefed.socialEnglish
            1·
            13 minutes ago

            Mostly, it’s just that nobody uses their computer in the same room that the scanner is in, and they don’t want to find a place to prop their laptop while using the scanner.

        • shrugs@piefed.socialEnglish
          1·
          1 hour ago

          i got a document scanner that does just that. it is connected to the network and puts files via webdav/smb into a filesharing.

          look for a scanner with network interface. if it’s connected via USB, I can imagine it needs good driver/software support which might be missing

          • baronvonj@piefed.socialEnglish
            1·
            15 minutes ago

            The challenge to finding one was keeping it in a sub $200 consumer device price range instead of a $300+ office line of devices. I managed to get a refurb Brother ADS-1800W and that supports network folders. But it’s not available new anymore, as they’ve moved that feature into their higher price tiers too.

  • Zwiebel@feddit.orgEnglish
    26·
    5 hours ago

    For real this time? No more workarounds?

    I still keep it around on a secondary drive for Battlefield and such, haven’t booted into it in months tho

        • Rhaedas@fedia.io
          6·
          3 hours ago

          Or 98SE. We bought a new laptop with ME on it, couldn’t understand why it was so slow compared to what it replaced. I finally said screw it, whipped out my 98SE CD (which everyone had around), and replaced that POS ME. And it’s amazing how the new laptop ran fast and now had none of the issues with things like printer and stuff. I don’t know what it was about ME that made it so bad, but it was.