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0 pointsqwerty4561274y ago0 comments

But also a challenge. Linux also has to introduce purely Microsoft/Google/whatever-account log-on (without explicit local user log-in preceding it) as an option because this is what many zoomers expect. You just give them a new computer, they sign-in with their account and start doing their job. Businesses they run also expect this when ordering computers/integration from you.

The open source world actually needs to implement this + a decent offline alternative to Alexa or be left behind.

I will never want to use a Microsoft/whatever account either but other people will.

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nlitened4y ago

> You just give them a new computer, they sign-in with their account and start doing their job

They can start doing their job without signing in with any accounts, one step fewer.

adsfasdfadsf2224y ago

nah the problem is the bovine masses have everything synced to their microsoft account now. they dont even really know how the file system works

just log in to your ms account on a new laptop and wait a few hours while everything syncs up via onedrive and its like every computer is your home computer

qwerty456127OP4y ago

> they dont even really know how the file system works

I wouldn't say this is a problem in the bad sense. That's Ok. Almost nobody (except low-level system engineers) really knew how the file system works ever. I always believed it's unreasonable to ask people to learn about file system internals.

What I really consider a problem which should never have happened and should be fixed ASAP is Windows hiding file name extensions by default.

And people having an idea of how a DOC file and a TXT file are different, what do TXT and HTML files have in common and why zipping MP4 videos doesn't save space feel a blessing for me to meet among non-devs.

> just log in to your ms account on a new laptop and wait a few hours while everything syncs up via onedrive and its like every computer is your home computer

And this is a convenience we have to reproduce. It almost is there - you can add a Microsoft account in Ubuntu but it still requires an extra step of setting a local user up and signing in with it first.

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