[thanksforthe42]

Yesterday I was asked for my email for a fresh install of Windows 10.

This immediately enraged me and I considered Linux.

I couldn't help but to consider Apple. But Apple is worse, they started the trend of collecting your information just to use their product. Apple is the reason Microsoft can ask for an email. Apple is the reason for the death of Flash. Apple bent at the knee to china. Apple uses pricing as a marketing tactic.

Any support of that company is bad capitalism.

[officeplant]

Reminder that if you disconnect from the internet while setting up win10 you won't be asked for a microsoft account and can make a local only account like in the past.

You can also use this to allow you to tweak personalization settings on an unactivated copy of windows before it hits up the activation servers and locks you out of personalization options.

[MeinBlutIstBlau]

You can't reliably use an apple device without icloud anymore. So if an email pissed you off with Windows, Apple is going to be no better. Then youve really got a nanny state to deal with.

I don't have an email associated with my windows version. I opted out. I don't sign into anything windows related. But I swear if I have to authorize every exe I download from github, I'm just gonna be a full on linux junkie.