One word: RUFUS ;)

@@BillAnt ventoy

RUFUS u just tick a box to create a local account. I have a laptop running windows 11 LTSC but for everything else I've gone Linux. I'm sick of Windows jerking us around.

Linux

@@benjammin105123 nvidea :(

100% Never turning back from Linux. F windows and all their products altogether

💯

I use Arch btw

It's quite easy to debloat and secure Windows. All you need to do is delete the Microsoft parts.

@@Wampa842 so the entire thing? :P

Logical outcome of life under corporate-driven software industry.

There are open source community driven operating systems

@@aman9das Linux :D (and maybe BSD for masochists)

I'm so happy to be 99.9% in the Linux world. I still need a Windows machine for VR, sadly, but for everything else I do on a PC, Linux offers FOSS for all of it.

Manjaro is perfection but it still has it's flaws for running videogames. Otherwise it's almost perfect

Google does the same shit.

@@ecchioni But google is free, so it is expected.

@@robertjames4908 If you think Android license fees are not a part of the phone's price I have bad news.

@@ecchioni not really, if you don't pay google, they do the same shit, but like if you buy a google pixel for example, they literately support custom rom that are really easy to install like grapheneOS, same for google home, it never listen if it's not triggered (some people tried to see what it sent to google with wireshark)

these companies found the easy way to rev; customer data and ad sales. gone are the days of a good product for the customer. its now about monetizing the user base and milking the shit out of it. Its what the shareholders demand. they don't care about good products, just return on investment.

They control linux too through Linux Foundation, Redhat and $ystemD.

It's also said that Debian has many 3 letter agencies working for it.

​@@tacticalcenter8658so we're using arch then?

@@tacticalcenter8658 Likely bc they're using it. However, almost all Linux distros are open source and you know what code you're running. Debian is quite popular and any privacy concerns would've been raised ages ago if it had 1% of telemetry/spyware the Windows has - so it's safe to assume it doesn't.

@@tacticalcenter8658 It's also said you fall for bullshit. Can't confirm it tho

let them do... make EU richer than US

I'm wondering when the lawsuit will come, sort of surprised it hasn't happened already.

Thing is EU is fine with it. As long as it spys for them.

Microsoft wants to cause a global shift to Linux and they want a class action lawsuit pretty badly it appears also don't use Minecraft in 2024 they ILLEGALLY went around their lawsuit and bought it anyway when they were told not to this shows how despicable and untrustworthy Microsoft really is.

Microsoft can see all of us write a complaint to the Better Business Bureau.

If buying isn't owning then piracy Isn't stealing... Let the Jolly Roger always wave high in the skies!!!

@@thiesenf the problem is that you do bot "buy" it, you "rent" it for some indefinite time. You do not own the house you rent and you usually can't do some big changes in house you rent. The problem is that they all advertise the "rent" as "buying" and i wish we could sue them for misadvertising

lol imagine owning something just because you bought it!!!!!!!! fml

Ah I remember when I still had that kind of innocent wonder and wishful thinking. I say over 90% will bend over. Sorry, correction 97% will bend over. And this is still a conservative estimate

Apple and Google kind of already do this too.

​@@Marisueksu It's not the same. iOS & Android are free & that is a big distinction. I don't know exactly what percentile of Windows installs are pirated, but I think it's a massive number.. Now if you are a pirate Windows user & suddenly the choice is 1. Pay for this garbage (even if it's just $10) 2. Use pirated Windows with a Microsoft account 3. Take a look at Linux. In my mind "The Year of the Linux Desktop" means 10% desktop market share, not anything too crazy.. This would definitely help reach it faster. Sure it wouldn't matter much in the US, but elsewhere it could be very impactful.

@@conjurermast They're slowly migrating to free-but-telemetry model. They're just making sure it has enough telemetry built-in before making it free I guess.

The funniest thing is you can disable their telemetry lol

They did, and Microsoft would never lie right? lol

Good for you! 👍 Use macOS.

@@Mr.QuantumC0re as much as I personally love the OS flow, it can be very impossible unless you buy the hardware. And most people (myself included) don’t want to buy only certain hardware to use a OS from a another organization that is sketchy

@@SforSamPlays I think Microsoft is sketchier than Apple lol. How about a hackintosh?

any solution employed on your router isn't going to work on windows 11 with its default settings because its going to use its own dns. Therefore a multi layered blocking scheme is always a good idea. Dont just tweak your router and give up there.

Do not use windows at all. Period.

Or just don't use it. Seriously, if an Operating system is this intrusive, the solution is not to configure it to be safer, but rather use an Operating system that IS safe.

With Valve working on a way to mandate a Linux option I am debating on giving up on Windows all together if they utterly REFUSE to follow federal laws and authority.

@@milesprowerxinfinity If you have a spare SSD, give CachyOS with GNOME a try. It’s the most optimized out of the box distro I have found for gaming, productivity, whatever. Nvidia GPUs should also just work with it as it automatically sets up the proper drivers and Wayland fixes etc. GNOME is not great out of the box IMO, but it’s more stable and less buggy, so it’s the better choice when you take the time to install the extensions you need with Extension Manager and set it up to your liking.

Almost as if they have contracts with gov't alphabet agency contractors, for the sake of domestic security as it always is of course; whilst never providing any actual security.

Why? Money, simple as that

They only want your best.

because WE're the product that THEY sell to advertisers...

Because selling a decent product and delivering a decent service has been deemed less profitable in the short term by M$ executives than r@ping their customers for every last penny they can. Though in the long term it'll be the death of the company. It's not that out of character, actually. M$ has been quite r@pey from the start, it's just that they'd never done it to their own customers on that scale prior to w8.

Not just command line, but undocumented as well now!

Apparently after forever, Windows is adding the sudo command. They are desperate.

@@goofyahdemoman1134 that's to give them easy access. Chances are there still a backdoor.

Microsoft might well be seeking to become an enforcement arm of the FBI. The reason: Microsoft might be receiving a monthly federal stipend for each existing online Microsoft account. This would be yet another method of federal government surveillance.

Hmm... Amazon or United? You are fucked either way.

Imagine me not using Smartwatches ever again because if people are worried about privacy they should be worried about that too and go back to regular watches which is what I am doing this Friday.

@@milesprowerxinfinity Same, regular watch and no internet on my phone

@@lotuschamp7796 My mom might be letting me get a digital watch this week don't kill me I'm not a kid anymore this account was actually here since I was one I only popped on it because I miss it jobs are hard to find right now I am 31 and we live in a small town the only job you can get here are factory jobs. Yes I am well aware eventually I have to get an apartment or my own place right now prices are jacking up even higher than normal I hate my Fitbit ever since Google bought it out they're also causing a monopoly it is against the LAW to form a monopoly they had no business buying out Fitbit to kill the competition I will NEVER be using ANY kind of Smartwatch again people might as well face the facts Smartwatches will NEVER kill a classic watch they're here to stay and definitely I think Smartwatches were a mistake and provide inaccurate medical information only a DOCTOR should be diagnosing you not a Smartwatch or "Fitbit" they're all junkware and stupid people get baited into it.

I don't do either what's your point?

I think you mean a FN-key

Or dont use windows, simple

@@autohmae Yes, I meant the Fn key. (Which requires another little hoop to jump through in changing a BIOS setting to stop it from doing that )

just use rufus to install and then debloat using atlasos? much simpler and i was able to guide my gf who has 0 computer experience at all through all of it.

@@Radars That's good, too. Whatever works. The bottom line is that there are still active (multiple) ways to use a Local Account and none of them are brain surgery. It's just ultra ANNOYING that they are even necessary in the first place.

They also control Linux in many ways.

​@@tacticalcenter8658 No one controls Linux.

​@@gljames24Such a whiner. You lose nothing by creating a Microsoft account.

@@blazechaos212Well, by that logic, you might as well open your house door, and let strangers steal your stuff. There is no competent arguement for having an account on an operating system, when previous microsoft windows didnt need you to have an account. YOUR LOSING YOUR PRIVACY!!!

That law might get deleted by big tech lobbyists…hope it doesn’t.

Same dude. Only got a version on switch thst collects dust.

Google "Minecraft Vortex Launcher". Thank me later ;-)

LTSC can be used to game too?

@@semikolondev why not?, it's the same

@@semikolondev Yes. LTSC just removes the in-built bloatware like Cortana and the Windows Store.

There is a chance that windows 11 entreprise will release in around October (if they make it coincide with the Office suite release). Will have to see how much fat the win11 enterprise edition trims, as there is quite a bit more of it this time around.

Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2024 has been released, so so so much more usable than the vanilla version.

many software and most of new games dont support windows 7 anymore dont know about Linux but how do you do that?

@@nerolowell2320 For stuff that won't cooperate, I use VxKex on Windows 7 to sort that out, though some apps will still refuse to work. On Linux, I've been using Debian-based distros because they're rather stable, though with extra control, you still have to be careful with the deeper parts.

Linux is for weirdos

Not any more

@@nerolowell2320 All the games on linux I play work perfectly the only games that don't work require kernel level anticheats.

Most people 'buy' Windows pre-installed by the manufacturer so they don't care.

It's just a matter of time... don't know what you are hoping for. Have you heard of Stockholm Syndrome ?

Not on Home edition

history tells us this will be the worst windows to date. Then they'll release 12, having listened to a bunch of feedback, and scaled back the evil a smidge, and people will eat it up.

@@paultapping9510 every time, memba windows XP, memba windows 7 lol

​@@paultapping9510w11 feels good using it

Unfortunately I'm just sick of having to do workarounds. When I was 10, I happily would jailbreak my iPhone or root my android and install cyanogen. A lot of app dependencies were removed, jailbreaks weren't fully functional so you had to be tethered, random things would break like touch ID. Being a kid I didn't care. I had the time and patience to figure things out or wait for a patch. Now being almost 30, I don't have the patience or the time to figure out these janky workarounds. I don't care anymore. I just want shit to work out of the box. So if Microsoft is going to make things harder to work out of the box with a local account, then I'll follow the path of least resistance and switch to Linux.

Home version does not have that option

Disabling your Account password is VERY easy - I did that for a relative for like 5 minutes ;-)

You type OOBE\BYPASSNRO into the terminal. Then once it reboots again, open the terminal again and type in ipconfig /release.

Type "00BE\BYPASSNR0" then re-boot and select "no internet"

Check video description... there's a link under Sources

@@salty_deez I've written the answer above from the cited Ars Technica article 'Microsoft removes documentation for switching...'

@@fellowcitizen That no longer works. M$ disabled that, people already made videos on yourtube and other video websites about this.

Stock debian will fit most, there's also mint and cinnamon that will fit the bill for most. Just don't bother with Ubuntu distro, ubuntu is trying to be the 'microsoft of linux'.

New to Linux? Mint or Pop! If gamer with recent GPU, Pop! OS. Gaming on Linux takes some doing still, but you'll have the driver situation sorted. Mint otherwise. Debian for servers.

Mint or Pop_OS. If your use case is basic browsing and computer tasks and you enjoy eye-candy and kind of a brainless transition from windows try ZorinOS. But Mint and Pop also have amazing hardware support and will encourage you to learn about the OS, and the community is more fond of the teams behind these 2 than Zorin

"takes some doing" is overegging it a bit. If you game mostly on steam, it's a case of changing one setting in the steam client via the menu, and the vast, vast, majority of any given steam library will just work.

Consider Manjaro KDE. I've postponed going linux for almost 10 years because everytime I tried a debian based distro people recommended(ubuntu, mint etc.), the thing would break in creative ways the moment I needed some non-ancient package versions. I have Manjaro installed on 5 different machines and they have yet to break in a way I could not fix for the past 5 years.

Rufus had the latest version? ;-)