Does this trick actually work?

  • indomara@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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.

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      1 year ago

      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.

        • GlassOnion@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          On Pro you can select English (World) as the region and you don’t get Windows Store and other crap installed. Just a nice clean Windows install. Haven’t got a Home ISO to spin up a VM to test if that skips the online account creation/login though but I’ll suspect it does.