For someone like OPs mom it would be more than good enough is my point. She’s saying she wished something existed that does indeed exist.

Of course, and much of it is on the app store now (which I rarely use myself), but for someone like OPs mom who just wants an easy app store, well there is one.

Yes, I read that. A couple thousand people out of billions of users were affected, and the problem was resolved. It’s really not as big of an issue as you’re making it out to be.

What crap machine are you running? I can open the store on my Surface 3 I’ve had for nearly a decade.

I don’t think getting instagram, or photoshop off the microsoft store is giving anyone a virus. And I’ve never gotten a virus from it in the few times I’ve used it.

Sure, but pretty much every common application most people use is available, which is fine for the majority of people such as OPs mom.

But Windows does have an app store, and has for ages now.

Steve Jobs was a tyrant, and awful to his employees. Maybe in a different way, but he was not fun to work for.

That would be actual socialism, and in theory would be wonderful.

When I made a short film about an AI I was writing C# into visual studio as my coding. It was actual video game code that was for something like AI pathfinding or something, so I tried to make it somewhat accurate.

Not sure why movies can't spend a grand on a programing consultant to actually write them some hacking-ish code for the scenes.

If it's even that. Most of the time it's non-nonsensical gibberish.

Ah, I never use an active directory.

I did it about a month ago, you can still find it without the command prompt. The computers are lab computers and don’t connect to the internet at all, and not once have I not had a local account option, and I’ve never entered the command prompt.

The comps at work are all on Windows Home so far as I know, we’re a small lab and just get cheap home computers. Local accounts were no issue. Not sure what you mean by AD.

Then people missed the local account button. I’ve installed Win 11 on 5 machines or so with no internet, and never once had to use a command prompt, or any funny business.

I’ve set up multiple Windows 11 machines for work with no internet connection, and zero need to use a command line. There’s a create local account prompt on the account set-up page you can just click, and set up an offline account.

Why do people keep lying about this? It’s the fourth time today I’ve seen someone parrot that lie about Windows 11.

You don’t need internet to install windows, I’ve done it with no network several times at work. Also all those prompts are defaulted to “no”, so you can click through quite fast.

Yes, I’ve set up several work computers without internet. You can make a local account on set-up.

Not like Google is a better company.

Bing is a good search engine, don’t know why people shit on it.