rashil2000

That's pretty nice! Thanks for the tip, I applied it to my config as well.

Sorry, I ran out of the free Blob Storage transfer quota, should be fixed now

Sorry, I ran out of the free Blob Storage transfer quota, should be fixed now

Shhh, Apple is completely allowed to do such things. In fact it is a lifesaver and a UX upgrade /s.

Essentially. They're in no way forcing you to give away credit card info. Even the title is editorialized in a way to incite hatred against something that's already present in a competing OS. Isn't there an HN policy against such titles?

Lol why is this downvoted so much? Do people get salty just at the mention of comparison with Apple?

There are so many (and so simple) workarounds that it almost feels intentional. My favourite one is typing "[email protected]" as email, literally anything as password, and this will throw an error and viola, prompt you to create a local account. Been using this in the latest Windows 11 Dev builds, no MSA required. Even Microsoft Store works without MSA!

No, Git Bash is a custom, stripped-down version of MSYS2 (with MinGW Git and its dependencies installed). It does not include pacman.

If you want to use pacman you can either use Git Windows SDK, or just plain MSYS2.