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Upcoming Windows 11 builds cannot install without internet and Microsoft Account

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268 points tech234a | 1 comments | 29 Mar 25 04:13 UTC | HN request time: 0.362s | source
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brokegrammer ◴[29 Mar 25 06:38 UTC] No.43513317[source]▶
A while ago, I needed to get into safe mode to rescue a laptop that wouldn't boot.

Since it uses Windows 11, I originally logged in using my Microsoft Account and a Windows Hello pin.

Safe mode doesn't load wifi drivers and the laptop didn't have an ethernet port, so I couldn't log in to my Microsoft Account to get into Windows safe mode. Didn't have a dongle with ethernet port at that time, so I had to backup the drive and reinstall Windows instead.

That's why I use Linux these days.

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GoblinSlayer ◴[29 Mar 25 09:15 UTC] No.43514000[source]▶
Reinstalled windows recently, now it has the window resize bug, which apparently has something to do with display sleep mode. Reportedly linux struggles with sleep modes too, but to think I should try linux for better hardware support, duh. And new windows is very fiddly, constantly tries to install new metro apps, adds them to lock screen, installs new services, runs a shit ton of services that constantly write a lot of data on the disk. Enshittification is in full overdrive now.
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consp ◴[29 Mar 25 09:36 UTC] No.43514093[source]▶
Linux struggles with sleep mode sometimes due to Microsoft and Intel pushing S3 into S2idle and motherboard/bios manufacturers doing the absolute minimum to support either.
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1. danieldk ◴[29 Mar 25 09:52 UTC] No.43514165[source]▶
I had the same impression, but support for new sleep modes seems to improve quickly. A few years ago I had a Gen 1 ThinkPad T14 AMD, which still had S3 sleep. A significant portion of the resumes it would come up with some devices not working (e.g. trackpad, fingerprint reader, etc.). I recently got the 5th Gen T14 AMD and the only issue I have is that the fingerprint auth takes a few seconds to come up, but other than that I haven't had any resume issues yet.