In the latest Windows 11 preview build, Microsoft removed the “bypassnro” command, which let users skip signing into a Microsoft Account when installing Windows.
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did you ever PC game at all? If so, I'm curious what you did for work around. The main thing holding me back right now from jumping into the linux world before the end of Win10 support is how much I game and use Premier Pro and Photoshop.
As long as you're cool being a bit more restricted in multiplayer games (a lot work great! But some developers are blocking linux), and you're okay with AMD (nvidia is improving though), gaming is basically on par with Windows at this point.
In some cases it's even better. I have a few games that require weird tricks to get it to work under Windows, but work fine in proton. Even Elden Ring at launch ran better on linux because it didn't have the micro-stutter issue.
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I put this in another thread:
It's not a big deal. They're removing the bypassnro.cmd script, which is just this:
@echo off
reg add HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\OOBE /v BypassNRO /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f
shutdown /r /t 0
You can still use shift-F10 at the same point, type those two lines (not the @ECHO OFF), and it will achieve the same result.
A bitch to remember compared to the bypassnro though.
Well, who cares. I'm never installing Windows again anyway.
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I will copypaste your comment next time people complain linux is hard to learn.
It's actually so bad lol. Idk what Microsoft has against
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IMO, Windows without a Microsoft account misses out on the least features, when compared to macOS without an Apple ID, iOS without an Apple ID, or Android without a Google accout. Sad that Microsoft keeps making it more and more difficult to bypass logging into a Microsoft accout during installation. But I use Linux anyways (btw)
Android without a Google account is great though
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Its not a big deal the same way cancelling adobe subscription is not a big deal.
I have to have Windows, a VM at least, for reasons.
A nameless install, decrapified with Chris Titus' decrapifier, installer and streamliner script is actually decent
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Is this a US thing? I had to install windows 11 in a VM like a month ago and I didn't have to create MS account or use any bypass scripts.
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Really?
I've used Samsung and Motorola Android phones, I can set them up offline.
I assume every other OEM is the same.
Well tbh. I never tried to bother circumventing the semi-mandatory google account.
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It is insecure to create one account with username and password during the setup process.
The password should always come from your password manager. But you would not have access to your password manager during the installation process.Please remove this step.
Fair point, but good luck convincing them about it.
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This change ensures that all users exit setup with internet connectivity
And what if someone doesn’t have internet connectivity?
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A bitch to remember compared to the bypassnro though.
Well, who cares. I'm never installing Windows again anyway.
You know, if you copied those three lines into a text file, then saved it as bypassnro.cmd, you'll have solved that problem.
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I did the same on my media center mini PC.
Any idea how to check/enable HDR?HDR is kinda complicated right now.
As it stands, it's only available on the Plasma and Gnome desktop environments.
The HDR stack on Linux has went through a lot of change recently, and much of the stack has only just been finalised/standardised. It'll take a while to mature, and to arrive on distros like Mint.
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Couldn't you just reinstall windows with an older ISO to bypass this? That's what I already do at work anytime I need to setup a new machine, gets rid of the manufacturer supplied
programsbloatware. Plus Rufus has an option for triggering the bypass command automatically.Yes, that works, too.
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It's actually so bad lol. Idk what Microsoft has against
-for args but it's fuckn annoyingWhat, as a delimiter? Even some FOSS software uses spaces.
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This change ensures that all users exit setup with internet connectivity
And what if someone doesn’t have internet connectivity?
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My 1st desktop had Windows 95 on it. It worked OK. A few years later, I bought a laptop pc with WindowsME (Millennium Edition), and it became the last Windows product I've owned. A work colleague installed Windows 2000 on that laptop, and it worked for a couple months, until I got my "blue screen of death."
At that time, they started selling the ePC notebooks, available with WindowsXP or Linux (the XanderOS) I stepped out of my comfort zone, and got the XanderOS variant, and have had Linux computers since. I'm currently using Mint on an old Panasonic CF-30, and Ubuntu on 2 laptops built by System 76.
My wife likes Mac, but I'm not a fan. My kids get a pretty rounded experience, between using their moms Mac, their dads 2 variants of Linux, and their Chromebooks at school.
That's all well and good, what happens to your kids when they can't tick the Windows and MSOffice boxes on job applications?
I'm not having a go at you, I'll assume you've taught your kids how to approach the new and unknown in the IT fields, but if they have limited or zero experience with Microsoft products, they'll be at a disadvantage.
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I mean, not really. You had to open command prompt anyways. The command is just a bit different now. There's no monetary penalty here, just a few more keystrokes.
Its shity corpo behavior to force users generate more profits for shareholders. It is no benefit to anyone but ms.
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What, as a delimiter? Even some FOSS software uses spaces.
Whoops, meant flags
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It is insecure to create one account with username and password during the setup process.
The password should always come from your password manager. But you would not have access to your password manager during the installation process.Please remove this step.
You also would not have access to your password manager when logging into your OS, would you?
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I'M OKAY WITH MAKING A WINDOWS ACCOUNT.
I'M JUST NOT OKAY WITH MY ~/ PATH BEING C:/Users/Jacobuedhbcuycbdhh55674c4bhdncy6448774/
THIS CAN BE FIXED BY CREATING A LOCAL USER AND THEN SIGNING INIs that how it is these days? If I log with my Microsoft account on a Windows device, the username used is only part of my first name. It always annoyed be that it was cut in a very unnatural way and I had no way to change it. I searched for some way to fix it and what I found said it was auto generated way back in the first time I used it on a windows pc and that it was saved in my account in some attribute that nothing ever updates.
