why?

  • Arrakis@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    it won’t install the OS without making you create a Microsoft account

    I’m not pro-Windows by any means, but this simply isn’t true.

    • Swiggles@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 year ago

      Yea, kinda. It forces it hard though.

      There is no obvious way to skip the MS account. You can select that it is a managed device and create a local user that way, but afaik that’s the last option left and obviously it is there for a very different intention.

      I am sure that if MS could remove it completely they would.

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      1 year ago

      You need to open a secret command prompt and type in a command. The person I was replying to is apparently deathly allergic to typing out simple commands in a terminal, so he certainly wouldn’t be able to get around it.

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        1 year ago

        Um, no you don’t. I mean you can do it that way if you want I suppose, but you can just use the good ol’ decline button too (repeatedly, on various screens, with your network cable unplugged. Fuck Windows)

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        1 year ago

        You don’t need to open a secret command prompt or type a command to not install without an account lmao. Linux fanboys just keep on lying to support their dying OS It’s hilarious haha.