Note: the MacOS part is false
Claim: you don’t need a Microsoft account to run windows. Here’s how.
Step 1: set up a Microsoft account.
Finally, some sense.
Just make a burner first-born for the initial sacrifice pledge & then make other local children as you please.
The only thing you need a Microsoft account for is to play Minecraft. And use other Microsoft products and services that Microsoft keeps pushing their terrible account system on.
You can actually download and play minecraft without a Microsoft account in multiple ways.
You can. It is in fact possible to play Minecraft without any code from Microsoft, as there are alternative implementations for both the frontend and the server. You can’t play on regular servers that way, though.
With Windows 10 eol coming up, I installed Bazzite on my buddies computer. All he just uses it for games, browser and editing the occasional document. The transition has been really seemless so far, and he is not technologically adept in the slightest.
For those who do want to continue to use Windows 10 after EOL, 0patch is providing post-EOL security updates.
Linux is really mature nowadays. I spent like five hours getting my NIC to work back in 2006 on my laptop. Now, it all seems to work pretty seamlessly. For people who just want to use a basic GUI and press “install” buttons, I think it’s perfectly fine.
It’s even simpler than I stalling windows.
Ima start making charcoal wood, gathering mesquite as I wander about the southwestern part of our country for the rest of eternity.
Idk about you guys but I got sick of using an os that obviously doesn’t want me to use it.
Dave is amazing, and his content on YouTube is very entertaining. This is a pragmatic answer for those who want or need Windows in some capacity, and then want to go on a use local accounts. Have some decency and recognize good advice when you see it.
It’s useful information for those who need it, but the way it is presented sounds delusional and contradictory.
He says you don’t need a Microsoft account, but goes on to explain actually you do need a Microsoft account.
It just sounds like pure cope.
For some people even needing a burner account is absolutely off the table and in no way a solution, and the fact of the matter is that an account is now required.
> Content creator who got massive recognition for Windows and used to work for Microsoft
> looks inside
> WindowsI swear the people in this sub behave like Christian missionaries
It only really works if you maintain access to a burner account, which might be difficult in the long term.
You don’t even need Microsoft burner account
Rufus takes care of it for you and sets up the usb image to bypass.
Unfortunately, 2025 was not the year of Linux for my new HTPC due to some weird EDID incompatibilities between my LG and the Intel arc iGPU on several different distro. Refused to allow for 1440p outside of 120hz and refused to go above 60hz at 4k.
yup oobe/bypassnro
You don’t even need that anymore. I just spun up and bunch of VMs and all you need is a domain join. It doesn’t prompt for anything anymore.
Not a Windows user myself but isn’t setting up a domain a pretty complicated process? Especially if you only want to bypass the account requirements. You would need another system running windows server or spin up a samba DC.
No, you don’t need a domain. You just have to select that option to avoid signing up for an account. They must have changed it, because it’s super simple now. I spun up like ten Windows 11 VMs last week using this method.
Got it. It might be limited to windows 11 pro though, since the home version can’t join domains I believe.
Yep, you’re right. You still have to do the OOBE skip with Home edition. I’m just playing around to see if I can find another way.
When activating with MAS you might as well just install a Pro version anyways.
Let me test it because yes, I was doing Education Pro ones.
It’s only if you have a specific version if I recall that you actually need one
Linux install: maybe 10 or 15 minutes tops from booting USB to desktop access, login is local, network connection is optional.
I installed Linux on a friend’s old laptop in an attempt to wring a few more years out of it, and they told me that they were surprised at how easy to use it was. I think most people just struggle with feeling intimidated. There is a bit of a learning curve, but the main obstacle is getting over that initial inertia
Just set up a windows *spits rig for a family member because old. My god the insanity of it all. From untoggling shit to stop ms *spits from spying and toggling other shit to stop ms *spits from spying, and dealing with uefi settings to get it to a level of security without allowing ms *spits to lock it down cost me a full day.
Then I had to deal with the ridiculousness that is their permission system to let them browse their own files from a different hard drive.
I love that it also sets up the first user as a full admin and I had to create another account and lock down all the stupid crap that would allow them to destroy everything.
Just the initial booting was longer than it would have taken me to install and fully set up the mint distro I had ready to install on my USB stick (for the use case they’d be using)
I was going to set up a server so they could access stuff and watch free stuff on their TV with the old PC, but that will have to wait for another visit.
Even I was astounded at the length of time it took. I was expecting stupidity but ms *spits has taken it way too far.
(I did install without any account at all though, and did manage to get full GUI desktop environment Ubuntu running in wsl though, so that was fun - for me)
Can’t tell if he’s joking considering all of his videos as a former MSFT engineer.
Then again, he is a former MSFT engineer lol.
All you have to do is a domain join now. No skipping the OOBE via command line, etc.
Since everyone is dogging on Dave for his MacOS comment - I doubt he even realized MacOS has a “skip” option for the Apple ID.
Weird hill to die on, guys.
That’s not what the expression “Hill to die on” means…
That’s what she said.
Ok.
Weird thing to obsess over.
Obsess? I don’t think that word means what you think it means…
He’s a former Microsoft engineer for those who don’t know
*so far
Until they alter the deal, again
