It annoys me even more that they forced everybody to migrate their Mojang accounts to Microsoft accounts. I never wanted a Microsoft account. They suck enormously, but even if you buy a non-Microsoft thing, you can apparently still be forced into their ecosystem.
With the new launcher, if you're using a Local account on Windows, they also try to trick to into using the account you log into Minecraft with as your whole-OS account. Big "yes, use this everywhere!" (paraphrased) accept button and a little "actually I just want to log into Minecraft" text option trying to hide underneath.
It's these little slights, multiplied by hundreds of other instances across the Microsoft and Windows 'experience' that added compounding, non-insignificant mental fatigue to my life.
It wasn't until I switched to Linux (Zorin) as my daily driver last month that I noticed this. Despite the initial adjustment pains, every time I open my laptop I now feel a sense of calm and stillness. My computer is exactly how I left it. It asks for my approval before doing things. It has no corporate agenda.
I use windows maybe once a year to see if some software builds or maybe play a game for a bit. It's almost comical how bad the experience is every time. Your comment on mental fatigue nails it - nothing on its own is _that_ bad but it all adds up and elevates the baseline stress level when you just want to get some stuff done.
My oldest son switched to Linux last week, but already wants to switch back because of gaming performance. But he found something called Tiny10, which is apparently Windows without all the bloatware. That might be a solution for people who really don't want to switch to Linux. But I'm never going back to Windows.
I hadn't noticed that yet. I wonder if my youngest son also gets that message and if he could make that change; he has no admin rights on the Windows laptop he uses for Minecraft, so I would hope he can't do that.
Although he also often gets the nag screen to upgrade to Win 11. That should also not be possible for him, but with Microsoft, you never know.
I owned a mojang account and didn't migrate it to microsoft. Now I just pirate the game whenever I want to play, it's pretty easy pollymc or pojavlauncher.
You can also play in multiplayer by going to server.properties of your server and setting online-mode=false
