• AChiTenshi@sh.itjust.works
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    9 months ago

    For the general consumer Microsoft is making it as hidden as possible to make a local user during installation.

    When I had to reinstall windows a month or two ago the option to make a local machine user was not there until I unplugged the ethernet or brought up a terminal to force the installer to show the option.

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      9 months ago

      To be fair, for the average consumer there are huge advantages to using a MSA.

      Both Windows Hello and OneDrive bring both security and convenience to non-technical people in a big way.

      There is no good reason the average non-techie user should be using a local Windows account in a cloud world.