I get how they made their sign up funnel confusing, but I personally didn't need a guide to make a local account. It was all right there in the setup UI, if you

I get how they made their sign up funnel confusing, but I personally didn't need a guide to make a local account. It was all right there in the setup UI, if you click around. I believe it just took a "skip" or "cancel" or "no thanks" or two, nothing too outrageous. I love my Debian laptop and my Mac laptop, but few people are about to give up an entire OS over petty annoyances where workarounds exist. Windows has survived countless silly experiments like this over the decades. Windows could require you to Skype a video of your butt to Satya Nadella to log in, and half the world would still do it, that's how wide their moat is. So much AAA software locked in as Windows-only. Solidworks, Cyberpunk 2077, etc. Just being the contrarian to the expected Hacker News sentiment of "microsoft just killed itself".