• D_Air1@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    People aren’t lying about it. When windows 11 first dropped this literally what you had to do. They may have back pedaled since then, but there are bunch of threads all over reddit about getting around using a microsoft account on windows 11.

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      1 year ago

      Then people missed the local account button. I’ve installed Win 11 on 5 machines or so with no internet, and never once had to use a command prompt, or any funny business.

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        1 year ago

        Installing Windows 11 on pc’s is part of my job, and I assure you, with the current version downloaded from Microsoft directly, you need to use a command prompt, or create a custom install USB stick with Rufus, to get around the requirement of creating an MS account.

        There used to be a local account button in the first version when 11 came out, then it only showed up when you had no internet, now it doesn’t show up at all anymore.

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          I did it about a month ago, you can still find it without the command prompt. The computers are lab computers and don’t connect to the internet at all, and not once have I not had a local account option, and I’ve never entered the command prompt.