Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account

lol there's already a fix: run start ms-cxh:localonly from a CMD line in the installer

I've used the unpatchable Win11 account loophole, that exploits a functionality of your pc, where you wipe your boot drive, and install NixOS on it

Are they trying to kill windows on purpose?

It's not a big deal. They're removing the bypassnro.cmd script, which is just this:

@echo off

reg add HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\OOBE /v BypassNRO /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f

shutdown /r /t 0

You can still use shift-F10 at the same point, type those two lines (not the @ECHO OFF), and it will achieve the same result.

Hi another recent Linux adopter jumping in on a "fuck windows" thread.

Seriously, it's not hard to shift. If you're use to macOS, get Elementary. If you're used to Windows, try Mint. Your machine will probably be fine for either. Setup/testing it out is trivial.

Why the fuck is a Microsoft account so important to Windows that running it without one is considered a "loophole"?

Steam OS 3.8 ... Any moment now 😁

Man, Microsoft advertising for Linux Mint YET AGAIN?! They are so gracious.

Uh

Who's ready to talk Linux

I really hope the whole shift away from American products will convince more software and game developers to provide native support for Linux. I am approaching the fence.

Describing the ability to make a local account as a loophole is letting a little too much real intention slip out.

LibreOffice better step up their games and make their office suites better. Outside of very niche and specialized applications like CAD or video editor, the average Joe will just need a good office suite to do stuff.

We no longer own our products. We just pay to use it until they decide you can no longer use their service. What happens if they mysteriously shut down your account without warning?

That is what happened to a guy and he had to get court involved and then he found out his account was flagged for CP by their algorithm because he had a video of his 19 year old ex. False bans do happen. I couldn't find that story again sadly to share.

Also, make sure you always have back up turned off or have one drive not installed on your phone. If you're a parent, be careful what photos you take of your children because if those get backed up to cloud, their AI will kill your account because it can't tell between CP and normal family photos.

I actually want to own our products than make accounts to use.

Funny how corporations think taking away consumers freedom and privacy is a good idea.

Have fun losing customers.

This forced account shit is infuriating. I’d see students with computers that cannot get to government-provided education sites because they are forced to sign up with a Microsoft account to use their PC, which forced them to setup a child account because of their age and therefore be under a parent account, which means the child account can only use Edge and can only go to whitelisted websites, which blocks some government education sites unless the parent account allows it through which they can’t until the student goes home.

I'm so glad I finally ditched that shit for good

Windows 11 is enshittfying a feature that let you skip making a Microsoft account

There, FTFY.

Will people just stop using windows already. I get for work but if you just waiting on that one game then fuck off it's not worth it. I gave up some of my favorite games because it wasn't worth using Windows

You can still skip it with MicroWin and also Rufus. I've tested it just recently.

I just deleted my old Mocrosoft account. Forgot I had it until recently.

They give me more and more reasons to stay on W10 until I give up games and move to Linux permanently.

I'll miss my TCMD scripting, though. But besides that and gaming, most of what I do nowadays is cross-platform.

The company is cracking down on the ability to install Windows 11 on older PCs that don’t support TPM 2.0

But still runs fine in a VM (where it belongs to) on Linux on a system without TPM, right?

Any gamers looking to switch, I've had a good experience with Bazzite.

Tried Pop PS recently. Night and day difference.

Chiming in as well with a Linux distro: peppermint , debian based. If you want the horrors to persist but kind of limited check out windows ameliorated. https://ameliorated.io/

Let's install Windows 10 for protest

Every time I hear about Microsoft it makes me wanna take a shit

Ah sweet vindication for getting my gaming PC and daily driver laptop on Linux

Meh... Yet another thing that everyone will just accept as a new norm. :c

Yet another reason to not use windows 11.

How does this work nowadays when you buy a PC from a store?
Does it come with Windows already installed?
And if so, with what account?

"Sucking off Bill Gates is bad, but Linux doesn't support video games"

To be far this command was only needed for win 11 Home. Pro did not need a command as the option is available through normal prompts windows gives you.

Ok, so this solidifies my desire to never buy a Windows PC/laptop and why my switch to Mac was a good choice a few years ago. However Mac gaming is nowhere near where it should be right now and I was thinking about getting a cheap Windows laptop for games that aren't available on Mac.

I remember a push a few years ago to get some linux distros pre-installed on some OEM hardware but I didn't hear much of anything past the hype. Anyone have any good OEM brands that have linux installed instead of Windows and are relatively affordable?