As ArsTechnica reports, you will need a Microsoft account for future versions of Win11. Which means that we will wipe our disks clean of it. My wife didn’t want any Windows on her new machine (her Notebook still has a dual boot Win10/Ubuntu setup), Zuleikha never wanted it at all, and my triple boot system (Win10/Debian/Arch) will be a dual boot one with the next system disk I’ll build in.
Who needs that crap? We certainly don’t. Time to say goodbye to silly enforcements from tech giants.
Same is true for Google who just rolled out their last updates for the Pixel 3 series – after that, it’ll be LineageOS.