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Microsoft has blocked the bypass that allowed you to create a local account during Windows 11 setup by typing in a blocked email address (www.tomshardware.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Why in God's name are you running either of those things on windows?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I thought we weren't supposed to kink shame. Maybe /u/Raglesnarf is really into degradation and being dominated. Full on ball-busting, perhaps?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Counter-point; if someone is into degradation specifically, wouldn't they be happy to be kink shamed?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

because it was super duper easy to setup and the overhead isn't all that bad for my use case. I am concerned whenever I decide to move/upgrade to something different since my hard drives are in a Windows "Storage pool" or whatever it's called

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

In all seriousness, if you're self hosting anything, please learn your way around Docker and Linux. It's a small time investment up front for huge payoffs. You'll get more value out of your hardware, and you'll have a system that's much more reliable (Windows was not built for 24/7 uptime).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

In fairness, I've had several machines running versions of windows server with lots of uptime and zero stability issues. But the last time I ran a windows server is was advanced server 2003 so....

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Windows Server isn't so bad as a server platform, although it comes with a lot of unnecessary overhead, and its container support sucks. Given that containers are really the way to go with self-hosted services now, that makes Windows Server a poor choice.

But realistically, when most people say they're self hosting on Windows, they mean regular old consumer Windows, which absolutely hates running for extended periods without rebooting. It's just not built for uptime.