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this post was submitted on 09 Feb 2026
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Yall ever see the late night commercials where some poor person cant juice a lemon for their lemonaid with spilling everything everywhere so they need the special lemon juicer 9000? Why does this give off those vibes so hard here. Like I dont like windows but this is like comically stupid use of your system - does anyone ACTUALLY use windows and not have a local account?
I dunno maybe I have lost touch with the kids.
Microsoft has been trying very hard to phase out local accounts for a while now. It is impossible to install Windows without a Microsoft account unless you escape from the installer and run a series of commands in the terminal. It is approaching the "install Linux with ZFS as your root filesystem" user experience.
I forgot they did this. Does it just hard stop if you don’t have any kind of network connection now?
Yes. In the past you could just not connect to a network and run installer offline, but now it requires a network connection unless you search for instructions on how circumvent it.