• @Cypher
    16•1 year ago

    You don’t need an account.

    Technically true but worthless to your average consumer. You need to interrupt the installation process, enter a command in a terminal after knowing how to access the terminal and then you can use a local account.

    This is worthless to your average person.

    The same argument applies when Linux neckbeards waddle out of a basement to declare something is simple; just open terminal and do Y.

    • @[email protected]
      6•1 year ago

      The average consumer doesn’t know what NTFS or FAT32 is. I don’t think they’ll understand the privacy implications of Windows reporting.

    • @[email protected]
      3•1 year ago

      Not tried in a while but it used to just be a case of leaving it disconnected from the net during setup.

      Failing that you can still sign up with a throwaway account and convert it to local in the options after installation iirc. It’s not ideal but it’s still something at least.

      • @Cypher
        1•1 year ago

        There are additional steps now which I mentioned.