If it's not Home, then to do a local account you have to go "Set up for company use", then choose different login options and "join to domain instead". Though if I were you I'd just install it from scratch from a USB drive, either 10 or 11 IoT LTSC. Then run MAS and WinUtil and be set.
You WILL make an online account
Thanks for the suggestion . Was originally planing on debloating everything and learning how to use it since people have been constantly asking me how to work with Windows 11 and are pretty damn stubborn whenever I try to do something for them.
The minute I saw that message about needing internet and an account, I started having the worst flashbacks to the first time I traded my 360 for an Xbox One.
Nope. Not gonna happen.
Like I said, anything that's not Home, do the "company > join domain" dance for a local account, MAS and WinUtil. You can get IoT LTSC ISO's from Massgrave. My laptop came preinstalled with 11 Pro and after the initial onboarding and local account setup I ran WinUtil, did a few extra tweaks, installed all the basics and I've been pretty happy with it. Then again, I use Flow Launcher, Everything and Total Commander so for the most part I don't interact with the Microsoft side of the UI.
You mean what they could never accomplish? I still vividly remember asking that yellow dog to find something, watch that flashlight bob left and right a minute and then see that it didn't find shit.
Takaya Kuroda is a better voice actor.
take the code from Linux's find
Better yet:
Having more robust desktop replacements sounds great. Right now you either have Cairo or RetroBar if you want to replace Microsoft's taskbar, and for extending it you have stuff like Rainmeter. I doubt XLibre replaces the entirety of DWM here but rather runs on top of it, the same way how X11 in WSL can be used to send Linux windows to the native desktop since the networking nature of X is a big advantage in this scenario. IIRC Ross Scott of Accursed Farms used/uses some hacky combination of long forgotten *nix DE ports to Windows to customize the everloving fuck out of it so if this reached the same level of robustness but on a modern framework then he's definitely love it.
My thoughts exactly. It's one thing being like their "AI chief" that constantly buries his hand in the sand and is baffled whenever people don't want agentic AI in their OS since surprise surprise: they find it useless and annoying, and another when the skeleton crew tasked with working on Windows 11 says "there seems to be an issue", even if it's in a buried blog post. Admitting to the fact that there is a problem is a massive step forward.
Measure-Command { Get-ChildItem -Recurse | Select-String -pattern "myString" | Select Path }
Already said it. NTFS indexes. It takes a few seconds to pull indexes of terabytes worth of data and then you can search it instantly. WizTree uses NTFS indexing for disk analyzing and you can see how fast it is. Everything was made with that idea back in 2004 and it's the best search program for Windows you can install.
It would be awesome Microsoft could just open source Windows 10 so we can work with it while Microsoft focuses on its AI subscription nonsense.
Don't drink and post.
Theres only one good game on that list and that is Minecraft. I'm glad they stuck with java