It’s definitely not for that, actually.
There's no reason to run your own instance just for yourself.
You can still create local accounts just by clicking in some of the other options during initial setup.
The UK government must be getting scared that the Australian government is going to overtake them in how authoritarian they are, so are going hard to maintain their lead.
computers can be gotten for free
Computers that don't already have windows activated, that can't work with an un-activated windows? Non-activated windows 11 is fully functional btw. You only need to buy windows if you need to use things like Hyper V and RDP. Windows is essentially free outside of pro features.
It wasn’t a big deal because I don’t use Windows 11. My login is offline.
Wait wait wait.......do you think that you can't log in to windows 11 computers without being online? Surely not.....
if MS login servers get compromised (and MS is damn sloppy regarding security), then your machine gets compromised too.
Oh.......you do lol.
And weird issues like this user experienced.
That person doesn't seem to understand that the internet and a network are not the same. You can be connected to a network but still have no internet. Sounds like this person's network has no internet, or their device has no internet due to their network set up.
Depending how the requirement is built it could make it nearly impossible for me to install windows
It's got nothing to do with installing windows, it's about activating it through the OS post-install. Windows works without being activated btw. It's not like the old days where it was unusable without a key - windows 11 is basically completely free these days, only requiring a license if you want to use some of the more "pro" features like Hyper V and RDP.
Well no, the answer is to stop illegal installs. That's what online license verification is for.
You're talking about something different here. This is about activating windows once you're using windows.
Windows doesn't need to be activated at OS install time either.
Windows doesn't need to be activated during the OS installation, so that's not relevant.
Also Windows doesn't need to be activated at all for 99% of people's uses of it.
I don't think you understand what freedom is. Freedom doesn't mean you can just do whatever you want with everything you want.
It's 2026. The internet is a core part of the world and pretty much everyone's life. It's not going away. Everyone who is buying a windows 11 computer has internet access almost all of the time, everywhere they go. Complaining about needing internet to activate a software license for digital software is pathetic - especially for Windows that doesn't even need to be activated for most people.
Unlucky, I’ve had a nice celebration of our country today.
Australia was conquered by the British a long time ago. Nothing will ever change that, and the country is what it is today because of that event. No one alive today did the conquering and murdering. Everyone alive today is benefitting from it though, via not still living in caves and huts, having running water and electricity, living past the age of 30, etc.