Comment by catchmost

I recently had to install Windows for the first time in ages because reasons, and it really wasn’t very hard. The setup really just presents two options at a time: the cloudy option, and the other option. If in doubt, the flashy one is the cloudy one. I kept selecting the non cloudy option and got to the desktop without signing up for anything. Sure it took more clicking than last time I went through this, but really wasn’t nearly as bad as people say and didn’t take any windows know-how or googling. Might be very different between editions and regions though…

Edit: ofc we all agree local accounts needs to be a supported option, but perhaps we should be more careful about yelling from the rooftops that it’s practically impossible. I’ve been told for years now that it’s really hard or impossible, and it really was not that hard (yet…)