You only have to use one of seemingly several methods to make the offline account option appear based on what specific version installer you have, no to Cortana but wait for her subtitles to finish in time with her audio anyway, individually untick every data collection option which each take up the whole screen with the toggle and next button being just far apart enough for it to be annoying plus the slow fade transition, realize you actually need the enterprise edition to set telemetry to 0 using group policy editor which isn’t available otherwise, have a vaguely different installation for that, find out that some functionality isn’t available like Ms store and some other stuff on enterprise which requires PowerShell to add it in if needed. Then possibly some random app to block select domains, with exceptions for the ones that make xbox, the Ms support sites, and ms software not work when disabled if needed. and/or pihole/unbound/Adguard if you have the means of setting it up. Then have random software not work for unknown reasons but you know deep down it’s the non standard installation of windows.
IKR, or pretty much any distro even some of the ‘advanced’ ones with some caveats.
I just had to do up a dual boot with windows for someone who works with people that use a windows only software that currently can’t be wine’d, and was appalled at how awful the install procedure has become since everything after 7 really. The enterprise and not pro features that are actually desirable for privacy minded people that aren’t experts in networking hardware and software was a huge let down too. Well assuming M$ isn’t just blatantly lying about config options anyway.
Fedora be like) i broke my recent fedora installation because of that, installed fedora 38 two months ago, made sub volumes, updated to 39, and it broke, and locked up whole ssd with it, had to recover data
But are you perhaps referencing to the situation with Broadcom just incrementing their chips and drivers for years, flooding the market with cheap but quirky chips? Do they still do that?
Mine just stopped working with brscan5 driver. It was a fast and quiet mobile scanner with high quality output. The new one is bigger, slower and louder and runs 90% of time in some photo mode. 🙁
I think it very depends on your hardware. I, personally, never had problems with it, on thinkpad which I use right now WiFi drivers were out of box even in Gentoo minimal ISO(It uses iwlwifi). But, every hardware that I have is about 10yo. And I think I haven’t any non-intel WiFi-cards.
But also one of my friends had to compile drivers for his card manually from github, and second friend had issues with his WiFi constantly disconnecting which we couldn’t solve.
That might also be a general network drivers vs. kernel version problem as well. I’ve had that on some Ubuntu falvors on various cards, it isn’t specific to just wi-fi, it happened on lan as well (just disconnects for a few ms and then connects again).
And yeah, one of the many reasons why I usually buy second hand hardware as well. One, it’s a lot cheaper, two, drivers for Linux are usually not a problem 😁.
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