They are never going to totally kill local only accounts... Because corporate networks, automation, embedded systems, air gaped networks.. all exist in abundance in the enterprise and government worlds.
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Recently needed to set up a Win11 VM. It worked after removing the network adaptor from the VM setup, and then using the bypassnro command.
Fucking Microsoft.
How to setup your desktop as a desktop: only 7 steps!
I don't really get it why people jump through these major hoops just to get Windows working the way they want it to. Just ditch the problem.
It takes me 10 seconds to remove internet access from yet another windows process, it takes weeks if not months to re-download the 2 point something TB of games I have installed.
People who have a real internet connection need another excuse but my internet isnt good for 2005, let alone 2025.
Sure that's ok for your personal machine. Now convince leadership that your 500 machine fleet needs to be switched over to Linux.
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fun fact Rufus already has all of this automated and even has steps to have the local account of your choice already as part of the image
7 steps? I have it down to 3
- don't by will 11 home
- when at the account creation screen select This will be domain joined.
- create local account.
This is great. Most other comments only talking about how the solution is to "install Linux". But thats not a viable solution for us Admins setting up PC's for users in a company who barely understand how to use a Windows machine, never mind them ever even hearing of the word Linux.
I would love to install Linux on some users machines that dont use the PC for anything other than Internet Access. But I know they would still have a cow.
Since I saw they were getting rid of Bypassnro ive been panicking, wondering if I'm going to start having to set up a Microsoft account for all my users. I'll test this on Monday and hopefully breath easy. That is until they decide to strip us of this solution as well.
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Honestly, guys, gals and others, Microsoft is making it crystal clear they don't want you to use their OS. It's not your OS, it's theirs. Stop trying mangle it into something it is not. If you need registry edits just to make the OS usable, it's not worth it. It's not for you. Please, please, please look at alternatives that respect you, your intelligence, your privacy and your data. One day Microsoft will push an update that will lock you out of your machine unless you create an account. Jumping through these hoops is just delaying the inevitable. Using an OS is not worth all this effort and stress.
Meta : I'd be curious to know the ratio of people downvoting the "Linux!" suggestion who actually do so from Windows.
"Linux is far too complex for the common person to use."
Installing windows without your data being harvested: 7 steps, then editing registry files, uninstalling most of the programs that come with it and get reinstalled with every update, use this command prompt, download this program from a random website you've never heard of before...
Installing Linux without your data being harvested: Click continue.
Linux is so difficult you guys, no one could possibly learn the command line.
Linux is so difficult you guys, no one could possibly learn the command line.
In the vast VAST majority of "normal" use cases, which I'd argue for most people it's :
- Web browsing
- watching videos or listening to music
- editing text documents, spreadsheets, presentations
- playing video games
- managing files, e.g. moving them in directories, compressing them, etc
- keeping the system up to date
- using a printer
there are reliable ways to use a GUI. So... even though IMHO the command line is absolutely worth learning, one can perfectly use Linux my "just" clicking their way around.
I work in IT (almost exclusively Windows) and have been using Linux on my private machines for 8 years now. I barely know anything about the command line. I don't have to be a Linux nerd because it just works with the GUI. (KDE Plasma. Can't speak for other DEs)
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Wyland & Nvidia drivers work yet?
Still using X11 as I'm on Debian stable but https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers#Wayland might help.
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Who actually uses Microsoft Windows?
1 step guide: Linux
Yes yes I know it's not, but still easier and faster than setting up a new Windows install, getting drivers and installing updates.
Let’s just not install windows?
As a civilization, we need to accept that we can no longer continue to depend on Microsoft Windows to use our computers. Hopefully the transition will go through without Microsoft having the opportunity to try to save themselves.
I don't think we are even close to getting critical mass but there gamers can be converted pretty easily now.
Each time micro-shit does a thing, Linux gets more users.
Prolly will take another decade or two but Linux will hit that critical mass.
Every day more people find out that Linux is part of the freedom tool set.
Well, it's only gonna be a matter of time before they remove this. I can almost guarantee that.
I work at an MSP 99% of all machines we deploy for our clients are windows based. The oobe /bypassnro is just mandatory for initial setup. Yes, there are ways around it post setup but it's just that much extra to do.
Having a local admin account for domain or azure/entra joined is still very useful. I don't get why MS refuses to accept this. (Money/data harvesting aside, we all know the real reason, just wish they'd just admit to it).
This. When the user hasn't even showed up yet, setting up a local account out of the box saves a bunch of time.
Looks better than my solution which was to join the machine to a domain then add a local account after. I always add a local account of my machines then add them to a domain. Simple fact is they want to trap people in their walled garden and it isn't going that well for them.
I'm sure it's going really well because the vast majority probably just give in.
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