I recently bought a Arduino Uno R3 for building DIY synthesizers.
Once I tried to download the software for windows, i was redirected to Microsoft Account
so I could chose which device I'd like to Install it.
No device was reconized by my account, even after I followed several forum instructions from
qualified personel. Something I think should be easy, is avoiding me to start creating with Arduino.
Is there any other way which I candownload and Install it, independetly of my microsfot Account?
Download the version with the normal (msi) installer, not the "app" version.
The app version is a windows store app, those require a Microsoft account set up (Microsoft cloud services, not your normal windows account) - this is a Microsoft design decision to try to ram their cloud accounts down.peoples throat. The app version also has more bugs (like most apps which are app versions of normal windows applications, due to the weird differences between how windows treats the two kinds of programs, as opposed to software designed from the ground up as an "app", which instead lack functionality compared to normal applications that do similar things). I think the main reason it exists is to facilitate deployment in institutions (read:schools) that have gone full windows store.
The non-installer .zip version is also an option.
I use the non-"app" version on multiple computers, none of which are set up with Microsoft accounts - I would never hand so much control of my computer over to Microsoft like that.
zwieblum:
Sure there is:
install linux, arduino is in the repos.
The versions in the repos are old and frequently buggy or non-functional because the repo maintainers modify them (but arent experts on arduino and do it wrong) and are slow to update them. Never use the linux versions from the repos, always the version from the arduino.cc download page. Virtually every problem reported on these forums from a linux version installed from a repo has been fixed when we told the user to install the real version.
