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by roywiggins 643 days ago
Windows is practically login-walled[0] at this point so I imagine people are slowly getting to expect it.

[0] witness the magic incantations needed https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/install-windows-11-witho...

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Hilariously (in the absurd way), this affects my girlfriend, who prefers and uses the Microsoft account feature AND onedrive exactly how Microsoft would hope she would, and STILL gets fucked by their stupidity.

Her laptop has a mediatek wifi card that doesn't have built in Windows drivers. Re-installing Windows requires you play the above game, so you can get into Windows, install the driver, and then immediately log into Microsoft.com.

This is so super annoying for shared lab computers