You can, it’s just got a lot of hoops to jump through. Easier in the pro version for work, but I just set the email to a@a.a and then it errors out before letting you make a local account.
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VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 6 months agoThat’s the magic of setting up a local account instead of a Microsoft account and actually turning shit off during the install sequence instead of just mindlessly clicking next. That said, I’m not sure you can do first time setup on Win11 with a local account. I know Win10 made it harder later on than on release. You can still set one up after the fact, but I’m not sure how useful it is on 11 since I refuse to install it.
Godnroc@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Also don’t the setup as if your location is in Europe, you can still use the time zone and keyboard you want
shalafi@lemmy.world 6 months ago
You can skip the MS account, but it takes effort.
Do NOT connect to the internet, or you hosed and will have to start over.
SHIFT+F10 to get a command prompt.
cd oobe
bypassnro
It’ll reboot and now you’ll have options to skip the MS account for a “limited experience”. Once you get a desktop, connect to the internet.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Man windows sounds complicated. Why do you have to open a terminal and do weird hacky workarounds for things
melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Not even ‘for things’ just to kinda own tour own computer that you paid for (til they patch that)
deafboy@lemmy.world 6 months ago
You also choose an English (international) as your language, to avoid the preinstalled crapware in the start menu.