Some pretty wild claims in there. It's okay to just not like it without making stuff up like 'Linux doesn't support Logitech mice' or 'windows can never run a laptop battery to zero'.
Shift +f10 to open a command prompt in the installer
OOBE\bypassnro
It reboots and restarts the out of box experience, but this time 'I don't have internet' will be available as an option
Bonus tip, don't choose a password either, as it will force stupid recovery questions. You can add that after first boot with net user on the command line.
Exact same experience. What district did you install for the cursor wiggle? Mine was slackware
Later mandrake was noob friendly enough for me to get a real start