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Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without an online account (www.theverge.com)
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[–] 10 points 1 year ago (8 children)

There are plenty that will boot/install Linux just fine but won't do a nice clean install of Windows 11.

Modern Thinkpad E16 (AMD) is one of them, a clean USB won't work, it will always stick at not finding required drivers.

You need to inevitably create a USB install from the MS USB Media Creation tool, running on the machine itself from the included crapware Windows - to get an installer USB that will work.

Different if you're just pushing a wim over the network from endpoint/scm, but it's basically broken for local users.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Just install it in a VM. I've done this before to force Windows 10 to install on a USB stick, you can pass a VM an entire physical drive to use instead of a virtual hard disk and install to that SSD directly from the VM (just kill the VM and reboot into the windows partition when the VM tries to reboot to the windows installation). I'm sure if you passed the VM a USB created with Rufus you could install from that as well.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Do you have more info regarding that ThinkPad E16?
    I'm mostly working with T series laptops and haven't had the problem, but always good to know if or when an E16 shows up.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Usually all ThinkPads work mostly the same regarding Linux support (bar the usual Nvidia driver shenanigans if you ever trip that), but I'd be concerned about the E-series themselves. If you want a cheaper than T-series ThinkPad you should get an L-series one. Not as expensive as the T-ones, but still retains some usable chassis durability, double replaceable memory slots, replaceable keyboard, etc.
    I've started calling the E-series as E-waste.

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