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It is pretty easy now if you use Rufus to create your installation usb.

It will prompt you (and select by default) to disable the need for an online account. I installed the Pro version and then just said I was setting it up for work or school, chose domain and then I set it up just fine as a local account.

I don't know for sure how much of this is rufas or the pro version. But I just installed Windows 11 within the last hour.

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> normal user

> use Rufus to create your installation usb

Pick one. "Normal" users don't use specialized software to create installation media. They boot the laptop with the OS already installed and go on from there.

I mostly agree, but installing Windows is not as daunting of a task as it used to be.

It is also not uncommon for 'normal' gamers to use a custom built PC which would require installing Windows.

Maybe normal is the wrong word, but it would be a pretty quick and easy to understand guide to do this.

Normal gamers aren’t representative of normal users on a whole. Gamers are just a tiny fraction of the overall user base. Normal users buy cheap-ass laptops with their manufacturers’ opinionated Windows installation, including boatloads of bloatware. And they don’t ever change any of the defaults.

> if you use Rufus to create your installation usb.

You've already scared away all the normal users

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