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SvennoJ on 26 June 2021
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HigHurtenflurst said:

The window management looks like a further improvement (something that has continually got better with each new Windows version) the rest of the stuff in the video is either visual fluff that makes little to no difference, or is adding additional hindrances to how I use Windows.

If they do indeed disallow local account & force a Windows account then thats the biggest reason I will be trying to avoid it for as long as possible.

For reference, I have never owned an Apple device, I have a 6y.o Android phone which of course had to have a google account created to use, something which I didn't know about till I got it, but it's an account that has never been connected to anything else & I don't keep significant data on my phone anyway... no banking, no significant web-browsing. Indeed apart from regular phone/text I only use it for news (BBC), weather (BBC until a month ago when their app stopped supporting KitKat), occasional Wikipedia/IMDB lookups & sometimes Youtube (through NewPipe, so never logged into Google)

I don't have a smart phone, intentionally, don't need, don't want. However it gets more and more difficult now everything wants to send text messages for 2 step verification. Most still have the option of calling your landline 'Your code is ..." in the worst electronic voice possible... However I've been locked out of my Dutch pension (still have some there from before I moved to Canada) now they're locking everything behind a DigiD, which A. only works via SMS and B. not available for non EU citizens. Back to paper.

So smartphone integration is the last thing I want! Same with tablet stuff, tiles (I never use the start menu in windows 10, it's a mess), news feeds (stop contaminating my taskbar) and notifications. And why does it ask every time what kind of device I plug in when I plug in my headphones. Older versions never asked that before. This constant nagging, what should windows do, when you plug something in. Windows should leave me .... alone :)

Hopefully USB management gets better, FS2020 is still prone to lock up and/or crash when you plug something in while the game is running. And maybe they finally fixed the bug that my laptop won't enter sleep mode when a controller is charging on USB or when I leave my flight stick plugged in over night. So annoying.