I don’t think it’s the reason, but my guess is that people see their PC as personal property in the sense of “I get to decide what happens to my hardware”, while others are more like services.
Android would be similar, but as far as I know I can still use my phone without a Google account, and then there’s people that completely de-googled their phone so it doesn’t even apply to them.
Yep, you still can use Android without a Google account, and you don’t have to jump through any hoops to opt out. I always set mine up w/o an account because I typically have to go through several OOBE wizards with a new device to run OTA updates, then clear the user partition and such before installing Lineage.
I don’t think it’s the reason, but my guess is that people see their PC as personal property in the sense of “I get to decide what happens to my hardware”, while others are more like services.
Android would be similar, but as far as I know I can still use my phone without a Google account, and then there’s people that completely de-googled their phone so it doesn’t even apply to them.
Yep, you still can use Android without a Google account, and you don’t have to jump through any hoops to opt out. I always set mine up w/o an account because I typically have to go through several OOBE wizards with a new device to run OTA updates, then clear the user partition and such before installing Lineage.
Ya kinda akin to having to muck with the cli to get windows 11 to use a local account though. A garbage trend.