I've had to set aside several hours to set up family members Windows laptops for that reason. It's crazy to have to jump through hoops to get an offline account

I've had to set aside several hours to set up family members Windows laptops for that reason. It's crazy to have to jump through hoops to get an offline account, battle the OS to use their browser of choice (possibly reverted by future updates) and download random scripts from GitHub to remove advertising, confusing trialware and random games from the default install - and that's before you get to the laptop vendor software.