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.

    • slazer2au@lemmy.world
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      3 hours ago

      They don’t have a parrot version. Not much of a counter argument against pro version there mate.

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        3 hours ago

        It was against the buying part.

        And the parrot isn’t downloaded, it’s earned. When you’ve flown the jolly Roger long enough, a parrot will start visiting you and a big hairy guy with a peg leg and eyepatch declares “Yer a pirate, Harry!”