There's a tiny little white link on the bottom right side of that pane that says skip and then multiple panes after that with "yes, I'm really sure. F off Microsoft".
Still extremely easy to miss and hilarious that he did.
It‘s not actually there in current windows versions. It takes some sort of workaround and I think you actually need to use the cmd. It is possible though.
last time i installed win10 on my desktop, the skip option definitely wasn't there, tried googling but couldn't find a solution so i had to create that damn account. next day my laptop that i need for school wouldn't let me log in anymore without an account. that day i joined team linux. btw i wonder if it would force that ms account crap if you had no internet at the moment?
Just use Rufus to make the USB... I mean, it's fairly simple to use it, and it asks you IF you give it a Windows ISO if you'd like to skip these things. There are other tweaks as well, like no BitLocker by default.
Not since 11, even the no network trick doesn't work. With Windows 10 if you didn't give it a network it was like oh okay, I guess local account is the only choice.
Windows 11 has a screen that says it can't find any WiFi or Ethernet adapter, and that you need one and connect to the Internet. It really doesn't want you to not have a Microsoft account, you have to kill the whole setup in cmd and make the local account yourself. It's insane.
Wow, Elon, you think it's bad to give one company full control over something? You think someone should step in and stop them? You think closed ecosystems are bad for customers? HMMM
Using another windows pc, make an 11 install USB by downloading Rufus USB. Then use it to download the English international windows 11 iso. After pressing start or whatever you get option to remove online account, make a local account, and remove system requirements as well as privacy questions etc.
Once installed, go to revi.cc and download the playbook and the Windows AME tool to “ameliorate” windows of all its bloat.
I love that Rufus, just a simple bootable (not for Windows specifically) USB maker software, specifically targets a single piece of software (Win11) and offers you to install those mods. I find that kind of beautiful.
You can, by using the terminal trick I was referring to. If you simply try to set it up without connecting it to WiFi or Ethernet, it will not let you go past that screen until you connect to a network.
Not anymore. The last version of Windows 11 I installed on bare metal did not allow the trick when you just turn off the WiFi. I had to Shift+F10 to get to the command prompt, enter "oobe\bypassnro", then reboot before it would allow a local account.
I figured out how to get windows 10 up and running without creating an account after like 10 minutes of googling. It requires actually doing things and not pretending to do them, so it might be beyond his ability.
No thanks. I don't want fake ass engineer Musk doing cringy programmerhumor tweets. He's already a edge lord with video games and I really don't want to see more communities propping him up because he tweets "sudo rm -rf hahahaha I'm sudo man" or whatever his cokebinged brain tells him
It does ask you to provide a Google account (on Android), but you can just skip that step. You can't use the PlayStore to download apps, but that's about it. Everything else Google works, even updates, you just browse everything as anonymous (well... more or less).
I think he's more angry that Microsoft dares to pressure their users to give their ChatGPT thingy data instead of paying him, the big Elon to give them "X: the partisan shitstorm collection, remastered edition"
