My computer has accumulated some cruft that’s making it hard to manage, and resetting the PC seems like the most straightforward way to deal with it. I already have all my important files saved elsewhere. I also wanted to see if I could kill two birds with one stone and rid myself of the dependence on an MS account. I’ve seen there’s some terminal stuff you can do when installing Windows fresh that bypasses the mandatory account creation, but does that still work when resetting? Especially when resetting from the cloud?
And because someone is going to say “Just use Linux”, believe me, I’d love to, but the user experience sucks for literally anyone who isn’t a software developer and the accessibility has actually gotten worse over the 15 years I’ve tried to use it.
and they say linux is the complicated one
Hehe… Try installing VMware Player or Genshin Impact in Fedora! (Those are my two most recent headaches.) Any OS can be a pain, it just seems like Linux is getting friendlier every year and Microsoft becomes more overtly the enemy.
to be fair genshin impact is supposed to have an anticheat that blocks it from running at all, no?
at this point most linux issues comes from external factors, where on windows everything is tailor-made for it and windows itself breaks.
dunno about vmware though, i tend to use the native options that work exceptionally well.
Yeah, I would do the same… Loving toolbox! I have to support some clients with VMWare though…