People will ask me why I'm 'torturing' myself with Linux while their preferred OS requires inputting the Konami code just to install properly.

It's like there's a memory of configuring xorg.conf or wpa_supplicant that just won't go away even when that stuff has Just Worked for 15 years. Even Nixos (which isn't at all a noob friendly distribution) has a desktop installer where you just click next like 5 times.

Most people just put their Microsoft account and are done with it. It installs fine.

I tried this and other suggested commands while setting up my windows 11 laptop last year, to no avail. It refused to budge until connected to the internet. Luckily, I was on an airplane with internet that required payment. I let it connect to the wifi and, to my surprise, it relented by allowing me to create a local account.

I am curious if there is a way to simulate this setup in a home network for when I need to set up my next computer.

Just unplug the internet from your router, problem solved.

not sure if it's true (i haven't tried installing anything later than 23h2 i think), but i heard that oobe\bypassnro doesn't even work anymore

https://x.com/TheBobPony/status/1797517797624598988

I did it yesterday on a brand new Surface 7 Copilot+ Laptop (such a dumb name…).

It still works as of June 21st. Did it on a new laptop that came with W11 Home.

Don't ask me how I know this, but you can also bypass the MS account requirement by putting in a very profane and insulting-to-Microsoft email address for the sign in.

It works with any e-mail address that has been banned. There's whole lists of them available on pastebin, github, etc.

That makes more sense, thanks.