I’m helping a family member build a pc. He wanted to use Windows because “Linux can’t play games” despite me having a perfectly good gaming laptop running Linux that runs all my games, even graphically intensive ones.
2 days later, no game has been played yet. We can’t even get steam to start. I even installed Arch on a sata ssd I donated just to verify the pc parts actually work (took less than an hour). It took 1 and a half days to even get the Windows 11 installer to get past like the 3rd screen.
Fucking fuck. Dealing with all this fucking bullshit is far worse than not being able to play a few trashy anticheat pay 2 win games. The anti Linux circlejerk is real.
It’s shitty that they make you do this, but you can actually install windows fine without a network connection by using Shift+F10 to open a command prompt during the startup flow, then typing
oobe\bypassnro, which will restart the startup flow with a new option to setup without wifi.They keep making this more and more difficult. Used to be you could just choose between yes and no. Then they made it so you can only choose between yes and no if you don’t have an ethernet cable connected. Now you have to use a hidden key combination and type in a secret command.
Soon you’ll only be able to install without an internet connection by downloading a special ISO with a hidden download link. Soon after that they’ll restrict said ISO to some insider program.
Wait, so you have to type stuff into a scary command prompt to install Windows? Hilarious!
Ah ok so that’s the trick now. It used to be enough to disconnect the wifi, I think on windows 10 early versions.
Thanks for the tip!