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Comment by fmajid

4 days ago

Hasn't MS removed the option to create a local-only account in Win11 and is forcing everyone to sign up for a Microsoft account?

They completely removed it from the installer GUI, yes.

But local-only Windows 11 still works with minimal interference. The most common ways are creating the install medium with Rufus (which has an option to create a local-only installation medium), or by manually dropping into the Windows Command Prompt during setup and running a single command ("ms-cxh:localonly")