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YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs

541 points by jjbinx007 11mo ago

itomato 11mo ago
A game is fun. Software that prevents you from doing what you want with it is neither of those things.
api 11mo ago
Why bother? Run Linux or get a Mac.
- eadmund 11mo ago
  Some motherboards only support firmware updates applied from Windows. In 2025, which is just crazy to me.
- LogicHound 11mo ago
  I am a die-hard Linux guy and I have to use Windows for certain things. One of those is multiplayer games. I am never buying a Mac. I've owned 4 macs over the last 20 years and I've regretted every purchase.
  - mentos 11mo ago
    I've only ever used windows. Recently got a mac mini so I could compile for iOS. I'm debating embracing the entire Apple ecosystem given I use iPhone. Not a huge fan of iCloud's pricing though. Curious what issues you ran into with your macs/Apple experience?
    - le-mark 11mo ago
      For me it was the keyboard shortcuts and mouse behavior differences. That plus the homebrew weirdness trying to emulate Linux package management. I decided to just use Linux. Ultimately, Linux is a development environment for Linux, and by extension the most developer friendly OS imo.
      - Esophagus4 11mo ago
        I’ve gotten used to the mouse behavior and keyboard shortcuts. One thing that drives me nuts about Linux is that application support generally isn’t as good as Mac. For example, there is no Claude Desktop app for Linux nor an Apple Music desktop app. If you need those, you’re using somebody’s hacked together project that half works, a web version with limited features, or paying for a third party app.
    - LogicHound 11mo ago
      I had the following problems. Note my hardware was ageing at the time and was about 5 years old. I know a quality apple specialist that did the work. - Glue'd in batteries on Laptops. I had a Mac Pro with a glue'd in battery. I could have done it myself, however I ended up opting to get someone who knows what they are doing to replace it. Labour and battery replacement cost me about £250. - Official charger made the power lines toast. Another £250 to get it repaired. - iOS Safari browser sometimes stops videos / audio when the screen locks or you switch apps. It is really annoying. Doesn't happen on Graphene OS or Android. - iCloud is kinda required if you use an iPhone even though I don't use it for backups. - Upgrades just aren't possible. Every single on of my laptops I have, I have upgraded ram, disk and even processor on some of the older models I have. I changed an intel Mac Mini drive to an SSD, it was a fiddly to say the least. On other SFF machines it is often a 5 minute job. - MacOS is kinda just weird. While it is a Unix, it does everything it can to hide it. As someone that used both Linux/BSD. MacOS feels like running a weird Linux distro. Brew was kinda weird after coming from Linux world. I would have just preferred to run Linux. - The online account stuff with Apple is somehow worse than Microsoft. These days I buy refurb Business Laptop from Dell or Lenovo. Literally 10% of the price, Linux almost always works and if breaks, I can buy another one cheap for the same price as repairing an Apple machine. I get it, they are not as nice but for me they work fine and are much cheaper.
- surgical_fire 11mo ago
  Mac is not an option. I'd rather install Win 11 on my laptop than buy another Apple computer. Did so once and it was the worst experience I ever had. Never again.
teekert 11mo ago
Your computer is not yours citizen. Stop your disobedience.
breve 11mo ago
The solution is to run Linux. KDE is a good desktop environment: https://kde.org/ https://kde.org/ 90% of Windows games run on Linux: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45736925 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45736925 LibreOffice is an okay office suite (good enough for my purposes): https://www.libreoffice.org/ https://www.libreoffice.org/ GIMP is a good image editor: https://www.gimp.org/ https://www.gimp.org/ VLC is a good media player: https://www.videolan.org/vlc/ https://www.videolan.org/vlc/
- chongli 11mo ago
  Anyone have a good suggestion for Linux dictation software? My friend wants to switch to Linux but he does all his writing with Dragon NaturallySpeaking.
  - kwar13 11mo ago
    If you run gnome then I made this: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/8238/gnome-speech2text/ https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/8238/gnome-speech2tex...
  - itsn0tm3 11mo ago
    How about OpenAIs whisper[0]? My social science friends tell me it‘s been great for them. Not sure whether data privacy et all would be an issue of course, but I guess you can just run it locally :) [0]https://github.com/openai/whisper https://github.com/openai/whisper
    - vorticalbox 11mo ago
      you can run whisper locally on your machine.
    - antiloper 11mo ago
      Dragon is an app, whisper is a model with a CLI that takes .wav files. Totally different user experience.
  - bmn__ 11mo ago
mikkupikku 11mo ago
The writing has been on the wall for years. Die hard windows users have been telling me that the increasingly esoteric incantations needed to install Windows without submitting to giving Microsoft your identity are a deliberate and officially supported feature which they can rely on even as the common proles are herded onto Microsoft's plantation. I wonder if any still really believe it. The best time to jump ship is now.
gverrilla 11mo ago
How viable is it to stay in Win10?
- breve 11mo ago
  You can buy extended security updates for Windows 10: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/whats-new/extended-security-updates https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/whats-new/extended...
  - mschuster91 11mo ago
    In Europe it's free although you have to log in with a Microsoft account for... reasons.
    - nonethewiser 11mo ago
      to prove you're from Europe probably - right?
      - mschuster91 11mo ago
        Indeed, yes.
- N-Krause 11mo ago
  While you're at it, you might as well downgrade to Win7. No jokes aside, if all the software you want runs on it, it is fine. Just no security update etc. I would suggest just switching to Linux and using a VM for things that NEED to be Windows. Games that run kernel level Anti-Cheat won't run, but tbh nothing I would suggest installing anyway.
  - netsharc 11mo ago
    I stayed on Win7 until December 2023, until there was some exploit that was attackable by just viewing an image, so just browsing the web would've made it vulnerable (I believe in the WebP format). Although it seems there are people still Frankensteining Win7, and even patching DLLs to make the newest browsers/apps still run on it. Famously MS Teams was really screwed up, but I had to use it for work..
aquir 11mo ago
The best time to buy a MacBook Air (or Pro) or a Mac mini! Much less BS and you take it out of the box and use it within 5 minutes.
- jaggs 11mo ago
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- jinwood 11mo ago
  The problem with this is Tahoe.
- eltopoloco 11mo ago
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- yehat 11mo ago
  Exactly, with the caveat I'm buying very cheap pre-M1 Mac to put Linux on it. Works well.
  - chithanh 11mo ago
    The later Intel Macs with T1/T2 chip also come with a number of caveats on Linux. Don't expect those to work out of the box with standard Linux distros.
  - hu3 11mo ago
    it might work well today for m1/m2 but the writting is on the wall for linux in newer macs. asahi development slowed down and is getting further away as apple releases new malcs yearly. i don't think this is a good bet for those who want to use linux.
- jacquesm 11mo ago
  The better solution is to buy an x86 laptop and install Linux instead. All of these empires are just milking us.
- elsjaako 11mo ago
  The videos being taken down here are about how to avoid: Windows requiring a Microsoft account to install, and Windows only being installable on compatable hardware. AFAIK an apple account isn't strictly required, but a lot of MacOS won't be functional without one. How is a Macbook better than Windows in these senses?
subscribed 11mo ago
OK, I really hope they were downloaded and will spread on other platforms like vimeo, dailymotion and especially The Internet Archive?
a5c11 11mo ago
It's funny to see how Windows and Linux completely switched sides. Linux once being the clumsy one, hard to install, even harder to configure, mediocre UX, running on poor device drivers and requiring hours spent on the internet to solve a problem. Today, replace the "Linux" word with "Windows" in the previous sentence.
- JohnLocke4 11mo ago
  Convention and the terminal holds it back. A terminal looks like the 1970s but feels like the future
  - luma 11mo ago
    I'd rather suspect it has a lot more to do with 40+ years of application backward compatibility and the ludicrous stack of software available for the platform.
  - xtiansimon 11mo ago
    > “terminal holds it back” Presumably the it here is Linux? That’s not what I would have said. The terminal makes maintaining your own systems much easier because it’s all text. Opposed to having to mix screen shots and instructions. Which is to say, I don’t imagine people who can’t handle the terminal (and are on Windoz) are doing any maintenance or configuration beyond a few GRRR items they’ve convinced themselves is ultimately intolerable. From a small business I’d say what keeps the accounting office on Windoz is software (ie. quickbooks, excel). But a close second would be tighter integration of file management and core office apps (ie email). It’s very easy to rename, move, copy, files on windows. You can perform many of these file management tasks inside an app experience (ie saveas dialog box). Apple has the mindset with their suite of Apple productivity apps, Chromebooks are very easy for general users to get their head around. If Linux could roll up a Chromebook environment with a QB clone into an expert system (e.g. no. We don’t need pictures, videos or games folders), I think our firm would consider the switch. It would certainly have the appearance of stability productivity, and simplicity which is always a plus when your job is not maintaining IT systems. (Now we just need to find new outsource IT for troubleshooting)
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joduplessis 11mo ago
I wiped Win11 from my Ideapad and installed Ubuntu. I love Gnome & it's the closest it'll get to MacOS (am a Mac user mainly). Win11 was absolutely wild though - around every corner was some ad for Office365 or Copilot or some other shit product. You don't own Windows (anymore) - you borrow it.
- breve 11mo ago
  Guide for setting up KDE like macOS (or you can install a macOS theme): https://www.howtogeek.com/heres-how-i-made-linux-feel-more-like-macos-using-kde-plasma/ https://www.howtogeek.com/heres-how-i-made-linux-feel-more-l...
  - bsimpson 11mo ago
    As a lifelong Mac user, I'm mildly tempted to do something like this in SteamOS, but with limited real estate: two panels feels like potentially wasting pixels, and the bottom edge is probably easier to reach on a touchscreen gaming handheld. I'll do some tweaking, but the ultimate UX has to feel right on this device, not just familiar to what I use elsewhere. Plus, I mostly use Desktop Mode for Chrome, which doesn't really use the menu bar. But I appreciate the share!
  - MangoToupe 11mo ago
    Obviously missing things: 1. Needs to fix keybindings, including setting readline shortcuts across all gui textfields. May be effectively impossible with so many gui toolkits floating around. 2. Needs a gui to manage configuration of startup items, login items. 3. Portable application distribution rather than futzing with installing a third party package source (may be effectively impossible for gui apps). 4. Cleaner systemd configuration tooling and especially documentation, even if it can't be expressed via a gui. 5. Cleaner process management. 6. Cleaner user management via GUI. The look and feel mostly doesn't matter tbh; you'll just end up with something that looks like macos but still mostly functions like windows but without consistent keybindings or behavior or system management.
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kgwxd 11mo ago
Oh no, all the 10 minute videos that should be 10 bullet points in plain text?
- IAmBroom 11mo ago
  Plus ads?
  - kgwxd 11mo ago
    I'm not supposed to interact with non-Premium members but, yeah, I forgot about those :)
alyxya 11mo ago
The main issue is how opaque the system is, though that may also be a feature to limit people’s abilities in figuring out how to bypass various restrictions. No one should have to risk the existence of their channel and livelihood to some unknown automated algorithm. Although the reddit post only cites videos from one person running into this issue, the first video link has comments referencing someone else so I found a video from that other person as an additional data point. https://youtu.be/vQ-RXzzU9u0 https://youtu.be/vQ-RXzzU9u0
- amarcheschi 11mo ago
  At least in eu, one should be able to access and contest the decisions made to remove your content, I don't know if this is the same outside eu
  - alyxya 11mo ago
    I imagine youtube has the same automated system comply with eu, but the videos linked in the reddit post mention how quickly the appeals were denied, so accessing and contesting decisions alone doesn’t fix the automated system problem.
keepamovin 11mo ago
I made some videos of installing Windows 95, 98 and NT on DosBox-X on macOS ARM: https://youtube.com/watch?v=RBMSW1B6hKk https://youtube.com/watch?v=RBMSW1B6hKk And a GitHub repo: https://github.com/BrowserBox/windows-dosbox-x https://github.com/BrowserBox/windows-dosbox-x I tried different AIs to make the scripts to automate installs in DosBox-X as long as you have a product key and ISO or other media. Most interesting to me was the different quirks between OSeS. NT was the most tricky in getting to work on DosBox-X and syncing up internet, IIRC. But overall a very fun project. Brings back nostalgia of 3.5" disks and seeing those install screen. Very cool times in the 90s ha! :)
sd9 11mo ago
In my domain (motorsports), almost all software is ancient 3rd party stuff only available as windows desktop apps. I’ve tried emulators but performance is abysmal for these apps. There are also all sorts of weird networking things that don’t work. And generally when you work with a new team which has a different tech stack, there just isn’t time within the context of a race weekend to faff. I’m unfortunately locked in.
- agigao 11mo ago
  Try Omarchy with Windows VM: https://learn.omacom.io/2/the-omarchy-manual/100/windows-vm https://learn.omacom.io/2/the-omarchy-manual/100/windows-vm
  - sd9 11mo ago
    Thank you. I haven't tried this. I'll look into it.
    - noir_lord 11mo ago
      It’s just arch with an opinionated hyprland setup and some glue, which is fine as far as it goes but don’t expect miracles. Not knocking it I’m sure it has value to developers who want a more turnkey setup for common dev setups.
- herbstein 11mo ago
  I hope you don't mind being a bit curious about this, as a hobby driver. At what level of motorsports are you working? It sounds like you both semi-regularly work with new teams. And are you working with them as a programmer? I'd be curious to know what kind of applications you're then working on, if so.
  - sd9 11mo ago
    I work primarily with GT3 teams across the highest level championships (WEC, IMSA, DTM, GTWC, ALMS), with a variety of manufacturers. With a small team of software engineers and data scientists, I'm building a cloud based motorsports data analysis platform which eliminates the friction involved in handling motorsports data and the differences between different manufacturers' software systems, and quickly gives drivers & coaches insights on how to improve their driving. So this involves getting into the weeds of a lot of this legacy software. There are a few teams I work more closely with where I've set up their entire trackside network/tech stack, although nowadays I'm more focused on the software. Over the years I've done a bit of everything at the track, up to and including physically laying cables in a bare garage or setting up the systems on the car, although I don't do anything related to vehicle dynamics.
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naikrovek 11mo ago
The number of Linux fanboys coming out of the woodwork to complain about Windows (and to provide anecdotes about Windows which are clearly exaggerated) is very high. Please read the Linux Advocacy HOW-TO. Shitting on Windows and MacOS does not make you look authoritative, honest, or credible. It makes you look like you have a very strong opinion and shut off from anything that does not conform to your opinion.
- mumber_typhoon 11mo ago
  Windows and macOS will happily do everything they can to take your money and keep you in their ecosystem but shitting on them is a crime ?
  - naikrovek 11mo ago
    no, of course not. I swear to God, reading comprehension among Linux fans falls lower and lower every year. shitting on them makes anything you say about a competing operating system appear like fully biased opinion, rather than fact. if you want people who you have not already captured to listen to you, you must do your best to appear unbiased. shitting on anything is 100% bias. and if you have opinions like that, how can someone you're trying to win over trust that the positive things you're saying about this other thing aren't also 100% opinion? Stick to the facts if you want to ever hope to do anything other than make Linux fans appear like they are rabid dogs who attack anything they don't like on sight. You can do that if you want, I don't care. But I don't go to rabid dogs for their opinions when it comes to choosing things, and no one else does either. You say things like this to get a mob going, and I want you to admit that. you all shit on things you don't like because you want to feel heard by others who also shit on those same things. but people who aren't like that come here and they read this stuff, too. And you're shitting on them in the process.
    - IAmBroom 11mo ago
      You're using reason to argue with a fanatic. Let them go; they're on a roll.
sharas- 11mo ago
Is this year of the Linux yet?
sharas- 11mo ago
use bottles.org to run windows apps on Linux. All games run on Linux with it.
- poisonborz 11mo ago
  Correct url is https://usebottles.com/ https://usebottles.com/
WhereIsTheTruth 11mo ago
The parody of Techno-feudalism
Havoc 11mo ago
Thank you Microsoft for your efforts towards making year of the Linux desktop a thing
- itomato 11mo ago
  Set your sights on GitHub, VSCode and npm.
101008 11mo ago
They have been taking down a lot of YouTube videos with Bob Dylan botlegs in the recent days, so maybe the platform is becoming more restrictive with everything, not just Windows 11 installs
- FergusArgyll 11mo ago
  The times they are a-changin'
- sigwinch 11mo ago
  It’s possible AI moderation called the Windows videos unsafe. Next might be routine car maintenance.
- ksherlock 11mo ago
  The Bootleg Series Volume 18: Through The Open Window, 1956-1963 will be released on Friday. If it's material in that timeframe, it's probably a Sony/Columbia DMCA issue or from google music file matching songs that are (soon to be) officially released.
  - 101008 11mo ago
    Yeah, no, they've been taking down a lot of material that's not included in tthe new bootleg series.
PeterStuer 11mo ago
Fwiw I had to report one of those "free win11 activated" videos as it was having users download and run a script from a suspicious source and handing full domain admin to a 3rd party.
codeulike 11mo ago
This is probably youtuber drama about some random youtube algorithm led takedown and likely nothing to do with Microsoft or the actual content of the video that got taken down
- FugeDaws 11mo ago
  it literally is this. Nothing to do with Microsoft, it's youtube relying on AI to take down videos now
  - nonethewiser 11mo ago
    Seems very plausible. Still, you wonder why it got flagged.
    - FugeDaws 11mo ago
      possible confusion with pirating software i guess
kotaKat 11mo ago
Step 1: https://schneegans.de/windows/unattend-generator/ https://schneegans.de/windows/unattend-generator/ Set up an unattend script how you want it to install Windows 11 Education, the only sane build of W11 with most AI shit turned off. Step 2: Install W11 with the autounattend.xml. Step 3: Powershell as admin -> irm https://get.activated.win https://get.activated.win | iex
Brett_Riverboat 11mo ago
For those who care at the first setup screen instead of answering any of the questions press Shift + F10 CMD will open Type (no quotes) “net user Prefferedusername /add” (replacing Prefferedusername with the user name you wish to use) and press enter. Next type “net localgroup administrators Prefferedusername /add” and press enter. Next type “net user Prefferedusername /active:yes” and press enter. Next type “net user Prefferedusername /expires:never” and press enter. Next type “net user administrator /active:no” and press enter. Next type “net user defaultUser0 /delete” (this is case sensitive make sure the "U" is capitalized) and press enter. Next type "regedit" and press enter. This opens registry editor, navigate to "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\OOBE" Delete "DefaultAccountAction", "DefaultAccountSAMName", and "DefaultAccountSID" Right click on "LaunchUserOOBE" and rename it to "SkipMachineOOBE" and make sure the value is set to "1". Close registry editor and type "shutdown /r /t 0"
- huflungdung 11mo ago
  [dead]
- xd1936 11mo ago
  There's that Microsoft UX we know and love!
  - esbeeb 11mo ago
    People complain about how they hate to use the command line in Linux. But they don't similarly complain about these ultra obscure, ugly commands. When Microsoft necessitates commands, somehow it's different.
    - mcintyre1994 11mo ago
      You're not supposed to do this, this is to get around a restriction on installing Windows 11 on certain hardware. If your computer is supported and you install it the way Microsoft wants you to, then you won't be typing any commands anywhere.
sgjohnson 11mo ago
When the $699 MacBook launches, oh boy it's going to sell well.
- bigyabai 11mo ago
  People say this every time. There were people on HN who thought the M1 Macbook Air would permanently cannibalize PC market share, and basically nothing happened: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_share_of_personal_computer_vendors#2020s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_share_of_personal_compu...
  - sgjohnson 11mo ago
    It won't "cannibalize" the PC market share. But I would argue that the overall market share is irrelevant. Most people don't even use Adblock/UBlock for Web browsing, so they don't even know what's best for them, and therefore are likely to just go for the cheapest option that gets the job done. Apple won't win them over, because that's not how Apple operates. Another huge segment is people who just use whatever their work provides. Laptop users who 1. care enough, 2. have the means, and 3. have the inclination to even get a personal laptop are a solid minority. Which coincidentally is how Microsoft gets away with the disaster that Windows 11 is. They have about _no_ user-customers left. I know plenty of PC-hardliners that have switched from Windows to a Mac in recent years. And exactly nobody who has switched in the opposite direction. I'm also pretty sure that most people who have personal laptops keep them around for 5+ years before upgrading. I myself had a 2015 15" MacBook Pro that lasted me until 2022 when Ventura support was cut off. I only upgraded it in 2023 when Apple launched Advanced Data Protection, which I was very keen to use, and had to make a choice between logging out of iCloud or buying a new MacBook. So seeing that the 2015 model had indeed reached it's useful life for me, I got myself a M2 Max 16", which I also fully expect will last me 7+ years. So as long as IT procurement in most companies will keep buying whatever cheap PC laptops they can by weight, PC market share is safe, and Microsoft is doing the best they can to keep it that way. Apple can only compete for users who have the will and the choice. And the $699 MacBook will quite likely capture a few of them. Additionally - I have a PC too. All it does is it runs videogames. In fact I use my personal PC a lot more often than I use my personal MacBook.
maglite77 11mo ago
Does anyone have links to "how-to's" for Linux in the enterprise? Password/MFA management, central app management, the equivalent of group policy, device management, etc.? IME, these are the areas in the enterprise where Windows "wins" with the IT teams, but it's been a long time since I've been close to the rollout side of the house. TIA
- whalesalad 11mo ago
  There isn't really a polished and comprehensive singular thing to accomplish this the same way you would with Active Directory in Windows world. Then again, AD is really not a polished thing either its more of a duct-taped stack of crap. Mirroring "the unix way" it is often a collection of single-purpose tools composed together to achieve the desired goal. Samba is quite powerful these days, it does more than just SMB sharing. FreeIPA is another software tool that I believe is more common in Red Hat deployments.
- antiloper 11mo ago
  Closest is probably RedHat Satellite: https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/management/satellite https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/management/satellite
mrweasel 11mo ago
My understanding was that you can install Windows 11 Pro, and tell it that you want to join a domain and in that case you're prompted to create a local account. That generally seems like the easiest option, even if the $45 price difference seems a little much.
foofoo12 11mo ago
Youtube also took down videos for Adobe a few months ago and HN deleted posts/comments about it: https://tech.yahoo.com/cybersecurity/articles/google-adobe-appear-abusing-copyright-151439069.html?guccounter=1 https://tech.yahoo.com/cybersecurity/articles/google-adobe-a...
jajuuka 11mo ago
Considering I can find plenty of nonstandard Windows 11 install guides on youtube I don't think this guys video was taken down for that reason. Most likely hit with automated moderating and he probably said "kill" in the video while giving instructions. That could trigger the violence filter and now he gets tons of more views from idiots thinking Microsoft and Google are working together to protect Win11 from a supposed massive wave of people going around the sign in requirement. Or whatever other grievence they have with Windows.
- codeulike 11mo ago
  Exactly, such a lot of pearl-clutching going on in this HN thread, its just a random algorithm-led youtube takedown
jpalawaga 11mo ago
One thing I do not understand about HN and other online tech communities is how much they hype up linux as some paragon of usability and ease of use, when it's just obviously not the case. "You don't need windows for gaming, 90% of games work on linux!" -- except the 10% that DON'T are all of the new, massive titles that people want to play. It's like saying "90% of the gears in the car work fine, just not 1st gear". "There are 0 driver problems" -- obviously not true as some hardware only ships with windows hardware. Yes it's true your new network card or mouse won't have issues, but a lot of hardware simply doesn't have support, and a lot might be supported if you spend enough time fanagling. "it's just as easy use as windows or mac" -- until you need to change one of many settings that hasn't been included in a control panel, because linux users have been more than happy to drop to config files and cli usages to tweak things (i.e. lots of stuff left out of system GUIs) I don't know why people do this. Especially in communities that are technical (and thus tend to be "technically correct" about things), why people essentially lying (by omission, if nothing else) about Linux?
- Nifty3929 11mo ago
  I was with you until "essentially lying." That's not fair. You can disagree - but calling people liars who express good faith beliefs is uncalled for. Many people genuinely believe that Linux is the better desktop OS. But yeah, I run Windows as my daily-driver for pretty much the reasons you give.
  - IAmBroom 11mo ago
    OK, they aren't lying. They're just saying untruthful things to support their cause. Linux is not a 100% replacement for Windows, and the reverse is equally true. LibreOffice is not MS Office except for being open-source. Your pocket tool is not functionally equivalent to a full toolbox. A turducken is not a pheasant. Etc.
- bigyabai 11mo ago
  > the 10% that DON'T are all of the new, massive titles That's not true? Arc Raiders, arguably the most-hyped game of 2025, is day-one compatible with Linux devices. I played the Server Slam free weekend on my NixOS machine, clearly not all of the new massive titles are broken. You can't abuse hyperbole like this while accusing other people of lying.
npteljes 11mo ago
I wonder if they supported piracy as well in those videos, or something breaking their EULA or something. People always come out swinging, fuck corpos, etc, but oftentimes there is something shady going on as well, either consciously, or unconsciously.
indymike 11mo ago
It's as if the web as we known it has outgrown it's usefulness to individual people beyond interacting with companies and government. Time for something new. No idea what, but we need a way for people to share with people... That's what made usenet, then the web so awesome. Both were mostly wrecked by the same commercialization.
- randomNumber7 11mo ago
  > Time for something new How should that look like and what could one make differently? What we currently have could easily used to share with people (like it was years ago). Nothing really changed but people use it differntly now...
  - another_bear 11mo ago
    I like to think ActivityPub is a good candidate.
- Terr_ 11mo ago
  In my bright-eyed geeky youth, I kept thinking that clever technology was usually enough to solve problems. Nowadays, I feel many problems are emergent from economic and legal structures, and a new software project is often just temporarily treating a symptom.
antiloper 11mo ago
90% of software does run on Linux, but if the software you really care about/need for your job/need for your hobby doesn't, then it might as well be 0%. You are going to use Windows then.
- jacksavage 11mo ago
  We need a Linux Subsystem for Windows
  - insane_dreamer 11mo ago
    if only WSL existed ...
- zzo38computer 11mo ago
  In some cases, you might be able to find (or write) an alternative program (or modify an existing one to do what is needed). This is not always so easy, but sometimes it can be done, and it can sometimes be done better than the Windows version. (It is what I did with the one Windows program I did want to run on Linux.)
gethly 11mo ago
Windows 11 is definitely not in my future so I do not care about this, but it's the same crap as when they removed downvotes due to Disney and Biden's Whitehouse getting ratioed to hell. YouTube/Google is not your friend and does not care about you. As long as you understand that, you should not be surprised as you always expect things like this.
lkramer 11mo ago
This is actually a good thing. Competitive Windows is a thing and these people are ruining it for the rest of us.
klazutin 11mo ago
Oddly enough, I had the simplest experience of installing Windows 11 25H2 on a new ThinkPad just recently. Apparently the Windows ISO doesn't have the WiFi drivers for that specific machine out of the box, so during setup when it couldn't find an internet connection, it simply offered to create a local account. So I would assume, if there is a way you can temporarily disable networking (e.g. in BIOS), then that would be the easiest way to avoid creating a Microsoft account.
- auguzanellato 11mo ago
  They already have the local account button, they just need to consistently expose it, even if a machine has a working internet connection.
- MattTheRealOne 11mo ago
  I wonder if that is something new in 25H2 then. My computer also does not have working network drivers out of the box and when I installed 24H2, it just gave me a screen to install the network driver from a flash drive. There was no way to skip or continue without it.
SilverElfin 11mo ago
YouTube and other large platforms should be regulated like public utilities. Otherwise the abuse will continue.
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- hulitu 11mo ago
  > YouTube and other large platforms should be regulated like public utilities But they are in private hands, aren't they ? Welcome to capitalism my friend. And don't forget to vote on the next election.
  - SilverElfin 11mo ago
    We regulate many privately owned utilities. They aren’t allowed to just deny you power or water based on your politics or pressure from another corporation or whatever.
- brnaftr361 11mo ago
  There isn't presently a good solution to this. I think regulations like that will probably have downstream effects, kicking the can down the road. Google is already bad enough at government collusion, divulging data, as are other infrastructure providers. Best-case is gutting Alphabet and breaking it up to the effect of decentralization of its pieces. I think if anything regulating the current instruments would just harden their social/political position which furthers their interests more than anything.
- bodiekane 11mo ago
  Regulations will just make it easier for the powerful incumbents to control what content the platforms are allowed to host. Deregulation is the solution here- get rid of DMCA and all the other laws that are used to bankrupt any competitor to YouTube, so that instead of a single video hosting site, we have tens, hundreds or thousands. The dream of the early web was that everything would be resistant to censorship and centralized control because it was a true network of many independent hosts, globally distributed, independent from the whims of any government. Then we let a few billionaire copyright holders and authoritarians who want to control what is published and seen gradually strangle the open web and replace it with a handful of corporate sites that can be controlled.
bfkwlfkjf 11mo ago
Stallman was right.
Teslazar 11mo ago
To install Windows 11 with a local user and/or to install it without the TPM 2.0 requirement, what I found easiest was using Rufus to prepare a flash drive with the Windows 11 ISO. Rufus asks if you want to create a local user and what the user name is. It also asks if you want to skip some of the Windows 11 requirements. Then when you install Windows 11 using the flash drive it just works.
- genter 11mo ago
  Be sure that it's not connected to the internet while installing. Otherwise it will install updates and turn it into a normal install.
- neop1x 11mo ago
  Like a drug addict. Finding out unsupported ways to get a standard dose of Windooze, despite it now being more toxic.
b3lvedere 11mo ago
A bit late eh? That genie left the bottle quite some time ago. And there are still other methods available.
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CommanderData 11mo ago
Is Windows 10 LTSC a thing still?

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itomato 11mo ago

A game is fun. Software that prevents you from doing what you want with it is neither of those things.

api 11mo ago

Why bother? Run Linux or get a Mac.

eadmund 11mo ago
Some motherboards only support firmware updates applied from Windows. In 2025, which is just crazy to me.
LogicHound 11mo ago
I am a die-hard Linux guy and I have to use Windows for certain things. One of those is multiplayer games. I am never buying a Mac. I've owned 4 macs over the last 20 years and I've regretted every purchase.
- mentos 11mo ago
  I've only ever used windows. Recently got a mac mini so I could compile for iOS. I'm debating embracing the entire Apple ecosystem given I use iPhone. Not a huge fan of iCloud's pricing though. Curious what issues you ran into with your macs/Apple experience?
  - le-mark 11mo ago
    For me it was the keyboard shortcuts and mouse behavior differences. That plus the homebrew weirdness trying to emulate Linux package management. I decided to just use Linux. Ultimately, Linux is a development environment for Linux, and by extension the most developer friendly OS imo.
    - Esophagus4 11mo ago
      I’ve gotten used to the mouse behavior and keyboard shortcuts. One thing that drives me nuts about Linux is that application support generally isn’t as good as Mac. For example, there is no Claude Desktop app for Linux nor an Apple Music desktop app. If you need those, you’re using somebody’s hacked together project that half works, a web version with limited features, or paying for a third party app.
  - LogicHound 11mo ago
    I had the following problems. Note my hardware was ageing at the time and was about 5 years old. I know a quality apple specialist that did the work. - Glue'd in batteries on Laptops. I had a Mac Pro with a glue'd in battery. I could have done it myself, however I ended up opting to get someone who knows what they are doing to replace it. Labour and battery replacement cost me about £250. - Official charger made the power lines toast. Another £250 to get it repaired. - iOS Safari browser sometimes stops videos / audio when the screen locks or you switch apps. It is really annoying. Doesn't happen on Graphene OS or Android. - iCloud is kinda required if you use an iPhone even though I don't use it for backups. - Upgrades just aren't possible. Every single on of my laptops I have, I have upgraded ram, disk and even processor on some of the older models I have. I changed an intel Mac Mini drive to an SSD, it was a fiddly to say the least. On other SFF machines it is often a 5 minute job. - MacOS is kinda just weird. While it is a Unix, it does everything it can to hide it. As someone that used both Linux/BSD. MacOS feels like running a weird Linux distro. Brew was kinda weird after coming from Linux world. I would have just preferred to run Linux. - The online account stuff with Apple is somehow worse than Microsoft. These days I buy refurb Business Laptop from Dell or Lenovo. Literally 10% of the price, Linux almost always works and if breaks, I can buy another one cheap for the same price as repairing an Apple machine. I get it, they are not as nice but for me they work fine and are much cheaper.
surgical_fire 11mo ago
Mac is not an option. I'd rather install Win 11 on my laptop than buy another Apple computer. Did so once and it was the worst experience I ever had. Never again.

teekert 11mo ago

Your computer is not yours citizen. Stop your disobedience.

breve 11mo ago

The solution is to run Linux. KDE is a good desktop environment: https://kde.org/ https://kde.org/ 90% of Windows games run on Linux: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45736925 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45736925 LibreOffice is an okay office suite (good enough for my purposes): https://www.libreoffice.org/ https://www.libreoffice.org/ GIMP is a good image editor: https://www.gimp.org/ https://www.gimp.org/ VLC is a good media player: https://www.videolan.org/vlc/ https://www.videolan.org/vlc/

chongli 11mo ago
Anyone have a good suggestion for Linux dictation software? My friend wants to switch to Linux but he does all his writing with Dragon NaturallySpeaking.
- kwar13 11mo ago
  If you run gnome then I made this: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/8238/gnome-speech2text/ https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/8238/gnome-speech2tex...
- itsn0tm3 11mo ago
  How about OpenAIs whisper[0]? My social science friends tell me it‘s been great for them. Not sure whether data privacy et all would be an issue of course, but I guess you can just run it locally :) [0]https://github.com/openai/whisper https://github.com/openai/whisper
  - vorticalbox 11mo ago
    you can run whisper locally on your machine.
  - antiloper 11mo ago
    Dragon is an app, whisper is a model with a CLI that takes .wav files. Totally different user experience.
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mikkupikku 11mo ago

The writing has been on the wall for years. Die hard windows users have been telling me that the increasingly esoteric incantations needed to install Windows without submitting to giving Microsoft your identity are a deliberate and officially supported feature which they can rely on even as the common proles are herded onto Microsoft's plantation. I wonder if any still really believe it. The best time to jump ship is now.

gverrilla 11mo ago

How viable is it to stay in Win10?

breve 11mo ago
You can buy extended security updates for Windows 10: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/whats-new/extended-security-updates https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/whats-new/extended...
- mschuster91 11mo ago
  In Europe it's free although you have to log in with a Microsoft account for... reasons.
  - nonethewiser 11mo ago
    to prove you're from Europe probably - right?
    - mschuster91 11mo ago
      Indeed, yes.
N-Krause 11mo ago
While you're at it, you might as well downgrade to Win7. No jokes aside, if all the software you want runs on it, it is fine. Just no security update etc. I would suggest just switching to Linux and using a VM for things that NEED to be Windows. Games that run kernel level Anti-Cheat won't run, but tbh nothing I would suggest installing anyway.
- netsharc 11mo ago
  I stayed on Win7 until December 2023, until there was some exploit that was attackable by just viewing an image, so just browsing the web would've made it vulnerable (I believe in the WebP format). Although it seems there are people still Frankensteining Win7, and even patching DLLs to make the newest browsers/apps still run on it. Famously MS Teams was really screwed up, but I had to use it for work..

aquir 11mo ago

The best time to buy a MacBook Air (or Pro) or a Mac mini! Much less BS and you take it out of the box and use it within 5 minutes.

jaggs 11mo ago
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jinwood 11mo ago
The problem with this is Tahoe.
eltopoloco 11mo ago
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yehat 11mo ago
Exactly, with the caveat I'm buying very cheap pre-M1 Mac to put Linux on it. Works well.
- chithanh 11mo ago
  The later Intel Macs with T1/T2 chip also come with a number of caveats on Linux. Don't expect those to work out of the box with standard Linux distros.
- hu3 11mo ago
  it might work well today for m1/m2 but the writting is on the wall for linux in newer macs. asahi development slowed down and is getting further away as apple releases new malcs yearly. i don't think this is a good bet for those who want to use linux.
jacquesm 11mo ago
The better solution is to buy an x86 laptop and install Linux instead. All of these empires are just milking us.
elsjaako 11mo ago
The videos being taken down here are about how to avoid: Windows requiring a Microsoft account to install, and Windows only being installable on compatable hardware. AFAIK an apple account isn't strictly required, but a lot of MacOS won't be functional without one. How is a Macbook better than Windows in these senses?

subscribed 11mo ago

OK, I really hope they were downloaded and will spread on other platforms like vimeo, dailymotion and especially The Internet Archive?

a5c11 11mo ago

It's funny to see how Windows and Linux completely switched sides. Linux once being the clumsy one, hard to install, even harder to configure, mediocre UX, running on poor device drivers and requiring hours spent on the internet to solve a problem. Today, replace the "Linux" word with "Windows" in the previous sentence.

JohnLocke4 11mo ago
Convention and the terminal holds it back. A terminal looks like the 1970s but feels like the future
- luma 11mo ago
  I'd rather suspect it has a lot more to do with 40+ years of application backward compatibility and the ludicrous stack of software available for the platform.
- xtiansimon 11mo ago
  > “terminal holds it back” Presumably the it here is Linux? That’s not what I would have said. The terminal makes maintaining your own systems much easier because it’s all text. Opposed to having to mix screen shots and instructions. Which is to say, I don’t imagine people who can’t handle the terminal (and are on Windoz) are doing any maintenance or configuration beyond a few GRRR items they’ve convinced themselves is ultimately intolerable. From a small business I’d say what keeps the accounting office on Windoz is software (ie. quickbooks, excel). But a close second would be tighter integration of file management and core office apps (ie email). It’s very easy to rename, move, copy, files on windows. You can perform many of these file management tasks inside an app experience (ie saveas dialog box). Apple has the mindset with their suite of Apple productivity apps, Chromebooks are very easy for general users to get their head around. If Linux could roll up a Chromebook environment with a QB clone into an expert system (e.g. no. We don’t need pictures, videos or games folders), I think our firm would consider the switch. It would certainly have the appearance of stability productivity, and simplicity which is always a plus when your job is not maintaining IT systems. (Now we just need to find new outsource IT for troubleshooting)
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joduplessis 11mo ago

I wiped Win11 from my Ideapad and installed Ubuntu. I love Gnome & it's the closest it'll get to MacOS (am a Mac user mainly). Win11 was absolutely wild though - around every corner was some ad for Office365 or Copilot or some other shit product. You don't own Windows (anymore) - you borrow it.

breve 11mo ago
Guide for setting up KDE like macOS (or you can install a macOS theme): https://www.howtogeek.com/heres-how-i-made-linux-feel-more-like-macos-using-kde-plasma/ https://www.howtogeek.com/heres-how-i-made-linux-feel-more-l...
- bsimpson 11mo ago
  As a lifelong Mac user, I'm mildly tempted to do something like this in SteamOS, but with limited real estate: two panels feels like potentially wasting pixels, and the bottom edge is probably easier to reach on a touchscreen gaming handheld. I'll do some tweaking, but the ultimate UX has to feel right on this device, not just familiar to what I use elsewhere. Plus, I mostly use Desktop Mode for Chrome, which doesn't really use the menu bar. But I appreciate the share!
- MangoToupe 11mo ago
  Obviously missing things: 1. Needs to fix keybindings, including setting readline shortcuts across all gui textfields. May be effectively impossible with so many gui toolkits floating around. 2. Needs a gui to manage configuration of startup items, login items. 3. Portable application distribution rather than futzing with installing a third party package source (may be effectively impossible for gui apps). 4. Cleaner systemd configuration tooling and especially documentation, even if it can't be expressed via a gui. 5. Cleaner process management. 6. Cleaner user management via GUI. The look and feel mostly doesn't matter tbh; you'll just end up with something that looks like macos but still mostly functions like windows but without consistent keybindings or behavior or system management.
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kgwxd 11mo ago

Oh no, all the 10 minute videos that should be 10 bullet points in plain text?

IAmBroom 11mo ago
Plus ads?
- kgwxd 11mo ago
  I'm not supposed to interact with non-Premium members but, yeah, I forgot about those :)

alyxya 11mo ago

The main issue is how opaque the system is, though that may also be a feature to limit people’s abilities in figuring out how to bypass various restrictions. No one should have to risk the existence of their channel and livelihood to some unknown automated algorithm. Although the reddit post only cites videos from one person running into this issue, the first video link has comments referencing someone else so I found a video from that other person as an additional data point. https://youtu.be/vQ-RXzzU9u0 https://youtu.be/vQ-RXzzU9u0

amarcheschi 11mo ago
At least in eu, one should be able to access and contest the decisions made to remove your content, I don't know if this is the same outside eu
- alyxya 11mo ago
  I imagine youtube has the same automated system comply with eu, but the videos linked in the reddit post mention how quickly the appeals were denied, so accessing and contesting decisions alone doesn’t fix the automated system problem.

keepamovin 11mo ago

I made some videos of installing Windows 95, 98 and NT on DosBox-X on macOS ARM: https://youtube.com/watch?v=RBMSW1B6hKk https://youtube.com/watch?v=RBMSW1B6hKk And a GitHub repo: https://github.com/BrowserBox/windows-dosbox-x https://github.com/BrowserBox/windows-dosbox-x I tried different AIs to make the scripts to automate installs in DosBox-X as long as you have a product key and ISO or other media. Most interesting to me was the different quirks between OSeS. NT was the most tricky in getting to work on DosBox-X and syncing up internet, IIRC. But overall a very fun project. Brings back nostalgia of 3.5" disks and seeing those install screen. Very cool times in the 90s ha! :)

sd9 11mo ago

In my domain (motorsports), almost all software is ancient 3rd party stuff only available as windows desktop apps. I’ve tried emulators but performance is abysmal for these apps. There are also all sorts of weird networking things that don’t work. And generally when you work with a new team which has a different tech stack, there just isn’t time within the context of a race weekend to faff. I’m unfortunately locked in.

agigao 11mo ago
Try Omarchy with Windows VM: https://learn.omacom.io/2/the-omarchy-manual/100/windows-vm https://learn.omacom.io/2/the-omarchy-manual/100/windows-vm
- sd9 11mo ago
  Thank you. I haven't tried this. I'll look into it.
  - noir_lord 11mo ago
    It’s just arch with an opinionated hyprland setup and some glue, which is fine as far as it goes but don’t expect miracles. Not knocking it I’m sure it has value to developers who want a more turnkey setup for common dev setups.
herbstein 11mo ago
I hope you don't mind being a bit curious about this, as a hobby driver. At what level of motorsports are you working? It sounds like you both semi-regularly work with new teams. And are you working with them as a programmer? I'd be curious to know what kind of applications you're then working on, if so.
- sd9 11mo ago
  I work primarily with GT3 teams across the highest level championships (WEC, IMSA, DTM, GTWC, ALMS), with a variety of manufacturers. With a small team of software engineers and data scientists, I'm building a cloud based motorsports data analysis platform which eliminates the friction involved in handling motorsports data and the differences between different manufacturers' software systems, and quickly gives drivers & coaches insights on how to improve their driving. So this involves getting into the weeds of a lot of this legacy software. There are a few teams I work more closely with where I've set up their entire trackside network/tech stack, although nowadays I'm more focused on the software. Over the years I've done a bit of everything at the track, up to and including physically laying cables in a bare garage or setting up the systems on the car, although I don't do anything related to vehicle dynamics.

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naikrovek 11mo ago

The number of Linux fanboys coming out of the woodwork to complain about Windows (and to provide anecdotes about Windows which are clearly exaggerated) is very high. Please read the Linux Advocacy HOW-TO. Shitting on Windows and MacOS does not make you look authoritative, honest, or credible. It makes you look like you have a very strong opinion and shut off from anything that does not conform to your opinion.

mumber_typhoon 11mo ago
Windows and macOS will happily do everything they can to take your money and keep you in their ecosystem but shitting on them is a crime ?
- naikrovek 11mo ago
  no, of course not. I swear to God, reading comprehension among Linux fans falls lower and lower every year. shitting on them makes anything you say about a competing operating system appear like fully biased opinion, rather than fact. if you want people who you have not already captured to listen to you, you must do your best to appear unbiased. shitting on anything is 100% bias. and if you have opinions like that, how can someone you're trying to win over trust that the positive things you're saying about this other thing aren't also 100% opinion? Stick to the facts if you want to ever hope to do anything other than make Linux fans appear like they are rabid dogs who attack anything they don't like on sight. You can do that if you want, I don't care. But I don't go to rabid dogs for their opinions when it comes to choosing things, and no one else does either. You say things like this to get a mob going, and I want you to admit that. you all shit on things you don't like because you want to feel heard by others who also shit on those same things. but people who aren't like that come here and they read this stuff, too. And you're shitting on them in the process.
  - IAmBroom 11mo ago
    You're using reason to argue with a fanatic. Let them go; they're on a roll.

sharas- 11mo ago

Is this year of the Linux yet?

sharas- 11mo ago

use bottles.org to run windows apps on Linux. All games run on Linux with it.

poisonborz 11mo ago
Correct url is https://usebottles.com/ https://usebottles.com/

WhereIsTheTruth 11mo ago

The parody of Techno-feudalism

Havoc 11mo ago

Thank you Microsoft for your efforts towards making year of the Linux desktop a thing

itomato 11mo ago
Set your sights on GitHub, VSCode and npm.

101008 11mo ago

They have been taking down a lot of YouTube videos with Bob Dylan botlegs in the recent days, so maybe the platform is becoming more restrictive with everything, not just Windows 11 installs

FergusArgyll 11mo ago
The times they are a-changin'
sigwinch 11mo ago
It’s possible AI moderation called the Windows videos unsafe. Next might be routine car maintenance.
ksherlock 11mo ago
The Bootleg Series Volume 18: Through The Open Window, 1956-1963 will be released on Friday. If it's material in that timeframe, it's probably a Sony/Columbia DMCA issue or from google music file matching songs that are (soon to be) officially released.
- 101008 11mo ago
  Yeah, no, they've been taking down a lot of material that's not included in tthe new bootleg series.

PeterStuer 11mo ago

Fwiw I had to report one of those "free win11 activated" videos as it was having users download and run a script from a suspicious source and handing full domain admin to a 3rd party.

codeulike 11mo ago

This is probably youtuber drama about some random youtube algorithm led takedown and likely nothing to do with Microsoft or the actual content of the video that got taken down

FugeDaws 11mo ago
it literally is this. Nothing to do with Microsoft, it's youtube relying on AI to take down videos now
- nonethewiser 11mo ago
  Seems very plausible. Still, you wonder why it got flagged.
  - FugeDaws 11mo ago
    possible confusion with pirating software i guess

kotaKat 11mo ago

Step 1: https://schneegans.de/windows/unattend-generator/ https://schneegans.de/windows/unattend-generator/ Set up an unattend script how you want it to install Windows 11 Education, the only sane build of W11 with most AI shit turned off. Step 2: Install W11 with the autounattend.xml. Step 3: Powershell as admin -> irm https://get.activated.win https://get.activated.win | iex

Brett_Riverboat 11mo ago

For those who care at the first setup screen instead of answering any of the questions press Shift + F10 CMD will open Type (no quotes) “net user Prefferedusername /add” (replacing Prefferedusername with the user name you wish to use) and press enter. Next type “net localgroup administrators Prefferedusername /add” and press enter. Next type “net user Prefferedusername /active:yes” and press enter. Next type “net user Prefferedusername /expires:never” and press enter. Next type “net user administrator /active:no” and press enter. Next type “net user defaultUser0 /delete” (this is case sensitive make sure the "U" is capitalized) and press enter. Next type "regedit" and press enter. This opens registry editor, navigate to "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\OOBE" Delete "DefaultAccountAction", "DefaultAccountSAMName", and "DefaultAccountSID" Right click on "LaunchUserOOBE" and rename it to "SkipMachineOOBE" and make sure the value is set to "1". Close registry editor and type "shutdown /r /t 0"

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xd1936 11mo ago
There's that Microsoft UX we know and love!
- esbeeb 11mo ago
  People complain about how they hate to use the command line in Linux. But they don't similarly complain about these ultra obscure, ugly commands. When Microsoft necessitates commands, somehow it's different.
  - mcintyre1994 11mo ago
    You're not supposed to do this, this is to get around a restriction on installing Windows 11 on certain hardware. If your computer is supported and you install it the way Microsoft wants you to, then you won't be typing any commands anywhere.

sgjohnson 11mo ago

When the $699 MacBook launches, oh boy it's going to sell well.

bigyabai 11mo ago
People say this every time. There were people on HN who thought the M1 Macbook Air would permanently cannibalize PC market share, and basically nothing happened: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_share_of_personal_computer_vendors#2020s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_share_of_personal_compu...
- sgjohnson 11mo ago
  It won't "cannibalize" the PC market share. But I would argue that the overall market share is irrelevant. Most people don't even use Adblock/UBlock for Web browsing, so they don't even know what's best for them, and therefore are likely to just go for the cheapest option that gets the job done. Apple won't win them over, because that's not how Apple operates. Another huge segment is people who just use whatever their work provides. Laptop users who 1. care enough, 2. have the means, and 3. have the inclination to even get a personal laptop are a solid minority. Which coincidentally is how Microsoft gets away with the disaster that Windows 11 is. They have about _no_ user-customers left. I know plenty of PC-hardliners that have switched from Windows to a Mac in recent years. And exactly nobody who has switched in the opposite direction. I'm also pretty sure that most people who have personal laptops keep them around for 5+ years before upgrading. I myself had a 2015 15" MacBook Pro that lasted me until 2022 when Ventura support was cut off. I only upgraded it in 2023 when Apple launched Advanced Data Protection, which I was very keen to use, and had to make a choice between logging out of iCloud or buying a new MacBook. So seeing that the 2015 model had indeed reached it's useful life for me, I got myself a M2 Max 16", which I also fully expect will last me 7+ years. So as long as IT procurement in most companies will keep buying whatever cheap PC laptops they can by weight, PC market share is safe, and Microsoft is doing the best they can to keep it that way. Apple can only compete for users who have the will and the choice. And the $699 MacBook will quite likely capture a few of them. Additionally - I have a PC too. All it does is it runs videogames. In fact I use my personal PC a lot more often than I use my personal MacBook.

maglite77 11mo ago

Does anyone have links to "how-to's" for Linux in the enterprise? Password/MFA management, central app management, the equivalent of group policy, device management, etc.? IME, these are the areas in the enterprise where Windows "wins" with the IT teams, but it's been a long time since I've been close to the rollout side of the house. TIA

whalesalad 11mo ago
There isn't really a polished and comprehensive singular thing to accomplish this the same way you would with Active Directory in Windows world. Then again, AD is really not a polished thing either its more of a duct-taped stack of crap. Mirroring "the unix way" it is often a collection of single-purpose tools composed together to achieve the desired goal. Samba is quite powerful these days, it does more than just SMB sharing. FreeIPA is another software tool that I believe is more common in Red Hat deployments.
antiloper 11mo ago
Closest is probably RedHat Satellite: https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/management/satellite https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/management/satellite

mrweasel 11mo ago

My understanding was that you can install Windows 11 Pro, and tell it that you want to join a domain and in that case you're prompted to create a local account. That generally seems like the easiest option, even if the $45 price difference seems a little much.

foofoo12 11mo ago

Youtube also took down videos for Adobe a few months ago and HN deleted posts/comments about it: https://tech.yahoo.com/cybersecurity/articles/google-adobe-appear-abusing-copyright-151439069.html?guccounter=1 https://tech.yahoo.com/cybersecurity/articles/google-adobe-a...

jajuuka 11mo ago

Considering I can find plenty of nonstandard Windows 11 install guides on youtube I don't think this guys video was taken down for that reason. Most likely hit with automated moderating and he probably said "kill" in the video while giving instructions. That could trigger the violence filter and now he gets tons of more views from idiots thinking Microsoft and Google are working together to protect Win11 from a supposed massive wave of people going around the sign in requirement. Or whatever other grievence they have with Windows.

codeulike 11mo ago
Exactly, such a lot of pearl-clutching going on in this HN thread, its just a random algorithm-led youtube takedown

jpalawaga 11mo ago

One thing I do not understand about HN and other online tech communities is how much they hype up linux as some paragon of usability and ease of use, when it's just obviously not the case. "You don't need windows for gaming, 90% of games work on linux!" -- except the 10% that DON'T are all of the new, massive titles that people want to play. It's like saying "90% of the gears in the car work fine, just not 1st gear". "There are 0 driver problems" -- obviously not true as some hardware only ships with windows hardware. Yes it's true your new network card or mouse won't have issues, but a lot of hardware simply doesn't have support, and a lot might be supported if you spend enough time fanagling. "it's just as easy use as windows or mac" -- until you need to change one of many settings that hasn't been included in a control panel, because linux users have been more than happy to drop to config files and cli usages to tweak things (i.e. lots of stuff left out of system GUIs) I don't know why people do this. Especially in communities that are technical (and thus tend to be "technically correct" about things), why people essentially lying (by omission, if nothing else) about Linux?

Nifty3929 11mo ago
I was with you until "essentially lying." That's not fair. You can disagree - but calling people liars who express good faith beliefs is uncalled for. Many people genuinely believe that Linux is the better desktop OS. But yeah, I run Windows as my daily-driver for pretty much the reasons you give.
- IAmBroom 11mo ago
  OK, they aren't lying. They're just saying untruthful things to support their cause. Linux is not a 100% replacement for Windows, and the reverse is equally true. LibreOffice is not MS Office except for being open-source. Your pocket tool is not functionally equivalent to a full toolbox. A turducken is not a pheasant. Etc.
bigyabai 11mo ago
> the 10% that DON'T are all of the new, massive titles That's not true? Arc Raiders, arguably the most-hyped game of 2025, is day-one compatible with Linux devices. I played the Server Slam free weekend on my NixOS machine, clearly not all of the new massive titles are broken. You can't abuse hyperbole like this while accusing other people of lying.

npteljes 11mo ago

I wonder if they supported piracy as well in those videos, or something breaking their EULA or something. People always come out swinging, fuck corpos, etc, but oftentimes there is something shady going on as well, either consciously, or unconsciously.

indymike 11mo ago

It's as if the web as we known it has outgrown it's usefulness to individual people beyond interacting with companies and government. Time for something new. No idea what, but we need a way for people to share with people... That's what made usenet, then the web so awesome. Both were mostly wrecked by the same commercialization.

randomNumber7 11mo ago
> Time for something new How should that look like and what could one make differently? What we currently have could easily used to share with people (like it was years ago). Nothing really changed but people use it differntly now...
- another_bear 11mo ago
  I like to think ActivityPub is a good candidate.
Terr_ 11mo ago
In my bright-eyed geeky youth, I kept thinking that clever technology was usually enough to solve problems. Nowadays, I feel many problems are emergent from economic and legal structures, and a new software project is often just temporarily treating a symptom.

antiloper 11mo ago

90% of software does run on Linux, but if the software you really care about/need for your job/need for your hobby doesn't, then it might as well be 0%. You are going to use Windows then.

jacksavage 11mo ago
We need a Linux Subsystem for Windows
- insane_dreamer 11mo ago
  if only WSL existed ...
zzo38computer 11mo ago
In some cases, you might be able to find (or write) an alternative program (or modify an existing one to do what is needed). This is not always so easy, but sometimes it can be done, and it can sometimes be done better than the Windows version. (It is what I did with the one Windows program I did want to run on Linux.)

gethly 11mo ago

Windows 11 is definitely not in my future so I do not care about this, but it's the same crap as when they removed downvotes due to Disney and Biden's Whitehouse getting ratioed to hell. YouTube/Google is not your friend and does not care about you. As long as you understand that, you should not be surprised as you always expect things like this.

lkramer 11mo ago

This is actually a good thing. Competitive Windows is a thing and these people are ruining it for the rest of us.

klazutin 11mo ago

Oddly enough, I had the simplest experience of installing Windows 11 25H2 on a new ThinkPad just recently. Apparently the Windows ISO doesn't have the WiFi drivers for that specific machine out of the box, so during setup when it couldn't find an internet connection, it simply offered to create a local account. So I would assume, if there is a way you can temporarily disable networking (e.g. in BIOS), then that would be the easiest way to avoid creating a Microsoft account.

auguzanellato 11mo ago
They already have the local account button, they just need to consistently expose it, even if a machine has a working internet connection.
MattTheRealOne 11mo ago
I wonder if that is something new in 25H2 then. My computer also does not have working network drivers out of the box and when I installed 24H2, it just gave me a screen to install the network driver from a flash drive. There was no way to skip or continue without it.

SilverElfin 11mo ago

YouTube and other large platforms should be regulated like public utilities. Otherwise the abuse will continue.

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hulitu 11mo ago
> YouTube and other large platforms should be regulated like public utilities But they are in private hands, aren't they ? Welcome to capitalism my friend. And don't forget to vote on the next election.
- SilverElfin 11mo ago
  We regulate many privately owned utilities. They aren’t allowed to just deny you power or water based on your politics or pressure from another corporation or whatever.
brnaftr361 11mo ago
There isn't presently a good solution to this. I think regulations like that will probably have downstream effects, kicking the can down the road. Google is already bad enough at government collusion, divulging data, as are other infrastructure providers. Best-case is gutting Alphabet and breaking it up to the effect of decentralization of its pieces. I think if anything regulating the current instruments would just harden their social/political position which furthers their interests more than anything.
bodiekane 11mo ago
Regulations will just make it easier for the powerful incumbents to control what content the platforms are allowed to host. Deregulation is the solution here- get rid of DMCA and all the other laws that are used to bankrupt any competitor to YouTube, so that instead of a single video hosting site, we have tens, hundreds or thousands. The dream of the early web was that everything would be resistant to censorship and centralized control because it was a true network of many independent hosts, globally distributed, independent from the whims of any government. Then we let a few billionaire copyright holders and authoritarians who want to control what is published and seen gradually strangle the open web and replace it with a handful of corporate sites that can be controlled.

bfkwlfkjf 11mo ago

Stallman was right.

Teslazar 11mo ago

To install Windows 11 with a local user and/or to install it without the TPM 2.0 requirement, what I found easiest was using Rufus to prepare a flash drive with the Windows 11 ISO. Rufus asks if you want to create a local user and what the user name is. It also asks if you want to skip some of the Windows 11 requirements. Then when you install Windows 11 using the flash drive it just works.

genter 11mo ago
Be sure that it's not connected to the internet while installing. Otherwise it will install updates and turn it into a normal install.
neop1x 11mo ago
Like a drug addict. Finding out unsupported ways to get a standard dose of Windooze, despite it now being more toxic.

b3lvedere 11mo ago

A bit late eh? That genie left the bottle quite some time ago. And there are still other methods available.

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CommanderData 11mo ago

Is Windows 10 LTSC a thing still?