Does this trick actually work?
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It’s so stupid that we need to resort to these tricks and workarounds. Local account should be the first, default option. Using a Microsoft account should be a secondary opt-in option, only for that strange minority of people who would actually want to do such a thing on purpose.
Save us European Union!
I wish. It’s one thing with hardware, since multiple designs are expensive to produce side by side. But not so with software. If they are forced to comply with some EU standard, they’ll just make one EU compliant version and continue to fuck over the rest of the world with unregulated bullshit.
We must Dave ourselfs and resist using those things.
Im already Daveing my self.
Any time I log with my Microsoft account on a Windows computer it also butchers my name and uses just some letters from it when creating folders and stuff like that. It’s something that is stored somewhere only this specific action reads from, but it’s happening for over a decade already with no idea how to fix.
Between that and the fact that windows now creates the Documents folder inside of OneDrive directly and gets all messed up if you move it out, I ended up buying windows Pro just to get back to an offline account.
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DON’T CONNECT TO WI-FI
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Shit+F10 (you might need to hit Fn+Shift+F10) will open up command prompt
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OOBE\BYPASSNRO
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It should now reboot and give you the option to make a local account in the fine print
This is the way! I did this recently with a recent Win11 Pro installation.
This is also the proper way to name the user’s folder yourself instead of letting Microsoft decide. The auto namer often makes poor choices and renaming it breaks a lot of stuff unless you wipe and reinstall.
Never mind
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Is a requirement for getting hired at Microsoft the ability so show utter contempt for your users? Sure seems like it.
Another way that I became quite fond of using is Rufus.
When creating a distro it allows you to customize it. Set up language beforehand, a local account, remove hardware requirements and data collection by simply checking some boxes.
It’s a very handy tool, saves a lot of headache with this bloody install.
useradd -m username passwd username
net user username password /ADD
You don’t even have to do any of that, when it prompts for a Microsoft account put in nonsense, like fart@outmybutt.com Then whatever for password. Keep trying to sign in with it until should prompt you to put in a name instead and set up a local account.
The article does it right:
test@test.comand other similar things (e.g:a@a.com) will throw an error the first time you put in a password and it’ll proceed to create an offline account.The people that go through the steps like commands and disabling internet are making too much work for themselves.
I use no@thankyou.com. Works like a charm.
Gentoo is easier than this
I mean, technically it’s only difficult because Microsoft doesn’t want you to make a local account anymore.
The difficulty is by no means necessary.
Sure, but that shouldn’t be surprising. Gentoo isn’t trying to intentionally make the process harder. I haven’t installed it for years but even then it was fairly streamlined and easy for what you’re doing.
I just did this the other day. For figure c you’ll see sign in options. With that you have the option for domain join. Do that and it simply runs you through creating a local user. No domain join or MS account needed.
This was done on W11 Pro so your mileage may vary on W11Home
tldr; select personal account, use a@a.com and any password
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Heh, I made the mistake of connecting to the internet, which removes the option for a local account. Even after quitting the setup and restarting the machine, it would skip the wifi question and ask for a Microsoft account.
I ended up using hotkeys to open console and using a command to disable the wifi adaptor, then another to reboot the machine.
After that it suddenly allowed a local account.
Whereupon I learned that there was no way to force it to use the dedicated GPU, win11 only allows you to enable it per program. Otherwise it decides when you need it.
I have installed win10 for now, but the writing is on the wall. When win10 is no longer supported we will finally make the switch to Linux.
During setup, tell it you want to join a domain. This brings you to local account creation. Way easier than what the article says. They keep moving that around to make it harder to find though.
Thanks all. The shift+F10 trick worked, despite my attempts at mistyping the command.
