I’m helping a family member build a pc. He wanted to use Windows because “Linux can’t play games” despite me having a perfectly good gaming laptop running Linux that runs all my games, even graphically intensive ones.
2 days later, no game has been played yet. We can’t even get steam to start. I even installed Arch on a sata ssd I donated just to verify the pc parts actually work (took less than an hour). It took 1 and a half days to even get the Windows 11 installer to get past like the 3rd screen.
Fucking fuck. Dealing with all this fucking bullshit is far worse than not being able to play a few trashy anticheat pay 2 win games. The anti Linux circlejerk is real.
@Coreidan @PeterPoopshit ah, can you install windows without a microsoft-cloud account nowadays ? Please tell me how.
Yes, I’ve set up several work computers without internet. You can make a local account on set-up.
Don’t give it internet access during setup.
It’s kinda funny how many people have no problem at all with a cloud account on their phone but get a mild stroke when Windows asks them to create a Microsoft account.
When it asks you for an email use “no@email.com” and use a random string of characters for the password. Congrats, you can now use a local account on setup.
Or use rufus to create the USB installer, and it will ask if you want to create a local account, and some other things to make installation even easier than it already is.
My answer was more for those stuck on that screen without a second computer to grab another iso on.
Go to ThioJoe or Chris Titus Tech. Windows 11 can be installed without internet or Microsoft account.