And then finding your way around the forced windows account. ANNOYING
Use [email protected] as the account name, anything as the password. It will say “whoopsie, there was an error” and then you can create a local account.
Or something about not connecting to a wifi or ethernet connection during install. https://www.ghacks.net/2023/01/26/how-to-bypass-the-microsoft-account-requirement-during-windows-setup/
Windows will display a “Let’s connect you to a network” or similar screen. The upcoming Windows 11 version 22H2 does not allow you to skip this anymore to create a local account.
they actually restricted this method, evil
You can make it let you skip it with a shell command.
Holy shit are you serious?
100%. I use it all the time on test machines at work.
Is this a hardcoded opt out or something? Couple of months ago I had to install windows for a friend. I tried to not make a windows account. All the exploits I found, were “patched”. I finally just gave up and made the account. My friend doesn’t care enough about privacy and I don’t care enough about windows for all that effort.
But, [email protected] would be awesome.
I’m not totally sure but I would guess that it’s not hardcoded. Probably just buggy behavior, as is usual for Microsoft.
you can type anything you want in both fields to skip it. a keysmash is my preferred method
Or just anything invalid. I usually do “m” as the username and “m” as the password.
Doesn’t work anymore in the current version. Now you can use Rufus to create the install drive from an ISO, or isolate your PC from the net and drop to a shell during installation to remove the requirement.
Have to try virtually! Even if Windows 10 are so much better than Windows 11.
don’t forget the constant messages to use Edge as your default browser! blegh!
If you don’t add a WiFi network and don’t plug in ethernet then you can also make a local account.
Bill hasn’t been associated with Microsoft decisions in like 15 years. Yes he still owns a shit load of the company, but he’s not the CEO, he doesn’t even sit on the board. He sits in his 16,000 square foot lakefront Medina, WA mansion and gets richer.
Public consciousness skipped Ballmer’s CEO era and apparently Satya’s name is too difficult to remember.
Not just installing. When updating, sometimes it tries to reset the options and change my default browser to edge.
It resets everything, including a bunch of tracking shit you intentionally turned off.
Edge would ALWAYS get on the way with its stupid search bar widget. They tried to improve their shitty outdated piece of crap internet explorer that nobody was using and they ended up with a modern shitty piece of crap that is edge.
Pro tip: You can hit
space tab space tab...to quickly cycle through them all.I will say though, it is mighty refreshing to go through a Linux installer now.
Illusion of privacy lol
Can’t find it anymore, but I remember someone did a DNS analysis and they are even pinging McAfee servers, before you open any apps.
Windows sucks but that article was click bait bullshit and was due to the laptop manufacturer bloat ware.
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Didn’t Bill Gates leave Microsoft in 2008? Other than that, yeah.
Yes, he isn’t even on the board anymore. He’s only involved in his charity, and palling around with Warren Buffett these days.
“”" charity"“”
Seriously, lol; how did this post even get upvotes? (UpLemmies? Whatever they’re called here)
Also this was one of the early windows 10 updates lol. Like 2017 or something.
How it feels to install windows in 2023 is to drop to a hidden shell and run some commands to create a local account instead of a Microsoft account to log into your computer. Fuckin disgusting.
I use Linux nowadays, but I still have dual boot cause of some games. I use LTSB debloated with stopped updates and telemetry.
Me when I open my laptop and get a fucking ad for windows 11
I wish Windows didn’t spy on you in the bathroom. But this helps:
Yep. Why I use Linux now. 🤷🏻♂️
Same. Was a windows user all my life. Tried dabbling with Linux a few times, but the shit microsofts doing now is what drove me to linux.
Got several family members on it too, They do nothing but webbrowse so its been going stellar for them.
I like your profile picture. Kind of unnerves me though!
Thanks! Ripley’s aquarium in Toronto.
I installed it in VirtualBox because I wanted to try if a neovim plugin worked with it.
The most awful experience ever. It’s so bad it’s tragic, and screams surveillance late stage capitalism. If people don’t notice that, it’s because they have slowly become used to it under the windows regime.
all these will be reinstated in the next update and all the unsent locally collected information will be sent with the consent you gave by not preventing your system from updating
oof. thats fucked up.
The reason why I still use Windows is Excel, because everyone still relies on Excel formulas and macros 🙄
Bro just say fuck it. If you use Linux you don’t need to care about regular lifestyle traditions. Treat yo self.
I feel your pain!
No one should feel pain of installing Windows, no one deserves that
I do it almost weekly for my job. I need to improve my Unix skills and become a Linux sysadmin
You can totally automate the Windows install process and configuration. Not even Windows sysadmins should have to be dealing with it manually.
We still use golden images, so whenever we refresh that I need to install windows on a VM. We still do our servers manually
