Using Rufus still works. I did it as recently as a couple of days ago.
You can’t do that anymore, at least not with a normal Windows installation. All of the tricks of forcing it offline, clicking cancel 10 times and jumping up and down don’t work anymore, they’ve disabled them all, the only way to install Windows 11 now (using the normal Microsoft installer) is by linking it to a Microsoft account.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
user224@lemmy.sdf.org 19 hours ago
Sorry, but the argument above was for a regular user, who doesn’t know what Rufus is, who doesn’t know the concept of OS, who simply
knowsthinks the files are saved “on the computer” (while they somehow ended up on OneDrive).deczzz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 hours ago
… and who doesn’t know that you can even install an OS to begin with!
CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
This is not true. There are several tools to create a bootable USB that uses a local account.
They just made it hard for Joe Schmoe to avoid it.
tehmics@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
using the normal installer
dubyakay@lemmy.ca 17 hours ago
Joe Schmoe buys new laptop with Windows preinstalled.
Joe Schmoe boots it for the first time.
Greeted by first-log-on.
Goes through steps and is immediately captured.
9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
You can still create a local account by setting the PC up as a “School or Business” PC and then choosing the local account option.
cley_faye@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Just update a W10 local install. It won’t even try to ask you to add a microsoft account.
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 5 minutes ago
I have a windows 11 installation without an account. You got to get an alternative image (I got LTSC).
I was really hoping there would be a jailbroken version of windows by now, you know a version that doesn’t update and doesn’t have any bloatware.
I guess it’s just not worth it given how far Linux has advanced.