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David Blue ※

I appreciate all of the privacy and ethics-associated reasons why it is preferable to start a Windows 11 installation with a local account, but if I could just add one more...

When you use a Microsoft account to do so, the operating system still requires a fucking username for the name of your user directory (because a local account must be created regardless, yes,) and all it has to go on is the email address you used to set up your Microsoft account.

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David Blue ※

A few years ago when I first installed Windows 11 on my home PC, the email address still associated with my primary account was `ihadtopee@gmail.com`.

So, what do you think my user account folder was named? You'd probably assume it'd be `ihadtopee`, right?

No. Through whatever process they set up to decide upon this, Windows 11 came up with `ihadt`.

Perhaps it makes me a superficial person, but that shit bugs me far more than anything else about the whole thing.

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