Comment on Report: Microsoft quietly kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet
HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks agoEven with the internet “available” you can get in chicken-egg scenarios like “the network card is not supported on the OS disc, and it won’t let me complete the OS installer so I can install the driver from external media later.”
Even Windows 10 got pretty testy about that in late releases.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 4 days ago
Windows doesn’t need to be activated during the OS installation, so that’s not relevant.
Also Windows doesn’t need to be activated at all for 99% of people’s uses of it.
HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org 4 days ago
But it does do the force-a-Microsoft-account thing that doesn’t work without a network.