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Local accounts are almost impossible to set up for the normal user in win11

by cybrox 2y ago

nerdjon 2y ago
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.
- g15jv2dp 2y ago
  > 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.
  - nerdjon 2y ago
    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.
    - jachee 2y ago
      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.
- hobo_in_library 2y ago
  > if you use Rufus to create your installation usb. You've already scared away all the normal users
ngneer 2y ago
Normal user, agreed. You can find tutorials online, though, for those of us who still remember that the PC was something the user used to own.
wongarsu 2y ago
That's the hidden joke. In early Win10 it used to be a simple dark-pattern screen with a prominent button "use a Microsoft account" and a text link in the corner "use a local account". Then they made it increasingly ridiculous with subsequent updates until the current point where you need a tutorial on how to even make the option visible.

Local accounts are almost impossible to set up for the normal user in win11

by cybrox 2y ago

Local accounts are almost impossible to set up for the normal user in win11

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.

g15jv2dp 2y ago
> 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.
- nerdjon 2y ago
  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.
  - jachee 2y ago
    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.
hobo_in_library 2y ago
> if you use Rufus to create your installation usb. You've already scared away all the normal users

ngneer 2y ago

Normal user, agreed. You can find tutorials online, though, for those of us who still remember that the PC was something the user used to own.

wongarsu 2y ago

That's the hidden joke. In early Win10 it used to be a simple dark-pattern screen with a prominent button "use a Microsoft account" and a text link in the corner "use a local account". Then they made it increasingly ridiculous with subsequent updates until the current point where you need a tutorial on how to even make the option visible.