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I had to get around this last week during a vm install.

Shift+F10, OOBE\BYPASSNRO, Shift+F10, ipconfig /release, install, ipconfig /renew.

That's a lot of work for the average person and it's only a matter of time before they disable that command.

People will ask me why I'm 'torturing' myself with Linux while their preferred OS requires inputting the Konami code just to install properly.

It's like there's a memory of configuring xorg.conf or wpa_supplicant that just won't go away even when that stuff has Just Worked for 15 years. Even Nixos (which isn't at all a noob friendly distribution) has a desktop installer where you just click next like 5 times.

Most people just put their Microsoft account and are done with it. It installs fine.

Don't ask me how I know this, but you can also bypass the MS account requirement by putting in a very profane and insulting-to-Microsoft email address for the sign in.

It works with any e-mail address that has been banned. There's whole lists of them available on pastebin, github, etc.

That makes more sense, thanks.

I tried this and other suggested commands while setting up my windows 11 laptop last year, to no avail. It refused to budge until connected to the internet. Luckily, I was on an airplane with internet that required payment. I let it connect to the wifi and, to my surprise, it relented by allowing me to create a local account.

I am curious if there is a way to simulate this setup in a home network for when I need to set up my next computer.

Just unplug the internet from your router, problem solved.

not sure if it's true (i haven't tried installing anything later than 23h2 i think), but i heard that oobe\bypassnro doesn't even work anymore

https://x.com/TheBobPony/status/1797517797624598988

I did it yesterday on a brand new Surface 7 Copilot+ Laptop (such a dumb name…).

It still works as of June 21st. Did it on a new laptop that came with W11 Home.

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