Rather than all the setup bullshit just throw us straight into the desktop and let us take it from there. It's a pain having to click through a bunch of crap.
this post was submitted on 24 Mar 2026
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π€«Linux with Plasma does exactly this
Did this and didn't look back.
A Linux user? On Lemmy?!
What is linux? I've heard of it, but when I search the Microsoft store, but all I see are a bunch of black Notepad looking apps. I've heard it is free. Is there a paid one with no ads? How much are the add-ons? How do I play Fortnite if it's all just text? I'm so confused.
Is what I would say if I weren't also a Linux user.
Ha, you've not tried to search the store. You'd find that there actually is Ubuntu, Debian and Kali Linux available for free on MS Store.
Yeah, and all the screenshots are just black boxes full of text!
There's dozens of us! Both lemmy and linux users.
I know, I use it π«‘
I mean the setup thing is important though. Things like setting up a local account are mandatory and super important. That's why most Linux distros have something similar. I will agree that it should be skippable though, for advanced users.
I did win 11 install like this:
- Install windows
- On login screen create a throwaway Account (mine was somthing like noAccount253@outlook.com)
- Decline all the adware
- in Settings create new Account
- say you donβt know the ms Account of that user
- chose to set up user without ms Account
- upgrade new user to admin
- log in as newly created user
- delete user lonked to burner MS Account
Nice Little Side effect is, that like this, MS gets flooded with dead accounts π
During install, you can opt to login as a business or school user, then just opt to create a local account on that page.
No microsoft account needed.
Shift + F10 and running OOBE\BYPASSNRO still worked for me last month. Depends on what update of Win 11 is on the system (I think up to 24H2 is fine).
Otherwise, I've had success doing Shift+F10 and running ipconfig /release to break the network connection at the sign in screen.
25H2 still supports it. I just did the reset option on a fully updated 25H2 machine and it had no issues.
Thanks for checking, fuckwit.
That method right there is why I never understood all the people bemoaning they they removed registry entries, needed shift-f10 and stuff like that.
Business -> Domain Join -> Create a local account. Done. And it works in current releases too as I just did it with an iso downloaded from Microsoft two weeks ago.
That is clever. Sure is sad though that you have to trick Microsoft into not requiring bullshit. If they were better at programming you wouldn't be able to trick them.
You can just add an xml to your win11 iso. You can do a lot of things with it, like skipping the privacy answers, setting the dark theme (even if you don't activate windows), preventing the microslop store from preinstalling adware, disabling disk encryption or even preinstalling virtio drivers for qemu-kvm.
https://schneegans.de/windows/unattend-generator/
If you just want to skip the online account there's always Rufus, which is the easiest way to add that xml to your iso.
Boy that macbook announcement really rattled them
What do you mean?
probably about the Macbook Neo (cheap new apple laptop)
Too late for most every user who switched to Linux. Who the fuck would want all the garbage they force you into in modern windows?
Also you can't really trust all these "rollback" claims they are throwing around at the moment. We know what Microslop thinks is the future of their OS, because they have literally poured billions of dollars into AI development. This is just them attempting to sugarcoat their giant turd, lure people into feeling obligated to continue with Windows 11 as they will then gradually turn up the sloppification again.
Exactly right. Most any time a company only changes due to backlash, you can never trust them again. And Microsoft never was a company to be trusted from the beginning.
I trust them somewhat, because it would be in Microsoft's best interest to maintain a monopoly on the OS market and to appease their business customers. Admitting their mistakes also puts them in a more vulnerable position than if they'd just pretended nothing was the matter.
Good for those living in submarines who couldnβt set their new machine up before going out of internet reception, I guess. Never been an issue for anyone I know.
Nah, keep it. Looks good on y'all! Just keep that OS far far away from my computers.