I've been doing that whenever I had to do a Windows installation in recent years. But I don't plan to ever install Windows again.

3 minutes. Clicking the ‘show more’ button before taking a screenshot was too hard for op apparently.

3 time

3 units.

decades wasted on windows

I personally think the workarounds are an intentional strategy to drip feed the "power users" and make them stop complaining/switching away. it also probably works to make them feel smart.

like do you seriously fucking believe ms would unintentionally leave oobe\bypassnro as a command you can type?? this is some Hollywood hacking type shit

Yep, kinda funny how even Apple is more lenient in this way. The only downside is that you can’t install stuff from the App Store but that’s basically a non issue.

Maybe the idiot meant iOS?

His "expert" opinion is quite dated

How did he scam people?

One bummer about 'burner accounts' in 2025 is it seems to be increasingly difficult to have a true anonymous burner account that doesn't involve someone getting your PII. A few short years ago you could just get a disposable email address from a bunch of places and use it to sign up, but now everything seems to be super locked down to where you either need an existing email address or a phone number to create an email account, both of which tend to have ways of being tied back to you.

I don't know if there's even any email services left that will just give you an account no questions asked, but I'll bet if there are they'll already be rejected as invalid by the big players.

Finally, some sense.

Can confirm. Been using it without an account for several years. It still infuriates me that they ignore default app settings in favor of their own shitty unremovable apps.

wild kink but I don't judge

much

This comment is missing the word "Linux"

They are removing it.

I installed Linux on a friend's old laptop in an attempt to wring a few more years out of it, and they told me that they were surprised at how easy to use it was. I think most people just struggle with feeling intimidated. There is a bit of a learning curve, but the main obstacle is getting over that initial inertia

Just set up a windows *spits rig for a family member because old. My god the insanity of it all. From untoggling shit to stop ms *spits from spying and toggling other shit to stop ms *spits from spying, and dealing with uefi settings to get it to a level of security without allowing ms *spits to lock it down cost me a full day.

Then I had to deal with the ridiculousness that is their permission system to let them browse their own files from a different hard drive.

I love that it also sets up the first user as a full admin and I had to create another account and lock down all the stupid crap that would allow them to destroy everything.

Just the initial booting was longer than it would have taken me to install and fully set up the mint distro I had ready to install on my USB stick (for the use case they'd be using)

I was going to set up a server so they could access stuff and watch free stuff on their TV with the old PC, but that will have to wait for another visit.

Even I was astounded at the length of time it took. I was expecting stupidity but ms *spits has taken it way too far.

(I did install without any account at all though, and did manage to get full GUI desktop environment Ubuntu running in wsl though, so that was fun - for me)