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And then finding your way around the forced windows account. ANNOYING
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.
Use no@thank.you as the account name, anything as the password. It will say “whoopsie, there was an error” and then you can create a local account.
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, no@thank.you would be awesome.
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
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.
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.
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.
It resets everything, including a bunch of tracking shit you intentionally turned off.
Didn’t Bill Gates leave Microsoft in 2008? Other than that, yeah.
Seriously, lol; how did this post even get upvotes? (UpLemmies? Whatever they’re called here)
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"“”
I use Linux nowadays, but I still have dual boot cause of some games. I use LTSB debloated with stopped updates and telemetry.
Illusion of privacy lol
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Windows sucks but that article was click bait bullshit and was due to the laptop manufacturer bloat ware.
Yep. Why I use Linux now. 🤷🏻♂️
I wish Windows didn’t spy on you in the bathroom. But this helps:
The reason why I still use Windows is Excel, because everyone still relies on Excel formulas and macros 🙄
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
