Pro tip I discovered by accident: If you type in any gibberish account name/email that doesn't exist, it will throw an error and move on with the setup without needing an account. No need to fuck with cmd line registry incantations or rufus.
>I have to use windows machines at one of my workplaces (…a hospital) - it’s really jarring to see ads in the start menu
Why didn't you remove them? I always do that.
Was unsure you could remove them! Honestly it feels so weird using Microsoft machines now; I’m very unused to feeling so transparently that I am the product (although Samsung tv s having ads seems pretty bloody rude as well)
Why wouldn't you be able to remove them ? Nobody would have used this if ads were not removable.
Just right click -> remove.
The build quality is great but I was immediately repulsed by a number of things: - forcing me to sign in with a Microsoft account - setting ‘new’ outlook as the default - ‘new’ outlook wanting to divert all Google workspaces emails (that I have set up for them) through onto outlook servers (….!!!!!) - a particularly weird one I wasn’t sure I’d be able to overcome when I accidentally set my keyboard to GB-en instead of US-En and couldn’t press enter (surely the walkthrough knows what sort of keyboard it’s got and won’t let you make a stupid choice before you’re even in on the desktop right? Wrong!!!)
I have to use windows machines at one of my workplaces (…a hospital) - it’s really jarring to see ads in the start menu