This must be a poorly documented / communicated item that you must use an MS account to log into your system. You may have to jump through some hoops, but surel

This must be a poorly documented / communicated item that you must use an MS account to log into your system. You may have to jump through some hoops, but surely you could run something like a Powershell command to get past the GUI and do exactly what you want to do. Just like many people here would do with a Linux system. Maybe more of a PITA, but it would be worth the effort for me. And I bet there's some easy tricks. There's a difference between "supported" and "possible." Add a layer of marketing and UI magic and you get a lot of confusion. Edited to add: Just because it's a new OS, doesn't mean the guts of the thing went through huge changes. The ways you create an account is probably the same from 10 to 11. It's just the GUI which is changing.