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Is this really true? You can no longer skip/bypass linking a cloud account?

If I recall correctly, you have to press a secret keyboard shortcut (to open command prompt) and run a command to unlock the "no Internet and thus no Microsoft account" version of the Windows 11 setup.

Sadly this „Server Install“ has been disabled by MS. But it was only a couple days ago.

Does this include Win 11 Enterprise?

seriously? so i have to register with microsoft to reboot windows to install linux now?

No, you can shift + f10 for cmd and run shutdown.exe /r /t 0

Just get a flash drive with a linux iso from elsewhere and boot directly into it.

You could press Shift+F10 to get a command prompt, then use `oobe\bypassnro` to bypass the online login, but I heard they're removing that too.

I guess you could make a temp account, and once you're logged in you can create a new local account and remove the online MS account.

They removed that now too. You can choose domain join on pro version to create a local account

Is there any bypass possible on the Home version?

Also, do the bypass methods that tools Rufus and Ventoy use still work?

The bypass via Rufus is working as of 3 weeks ago; Did two installs with local-only accounts from the get go.

unattend.xml file can be used to skip this screen, knowing ms, probably in pro edition only

Unattend.xml can be used in both editions, as there is no more separate install image for home edition since windows 8

Last windows install I did (couple of years ago) I had to prevent it from being connected to the wifi during the install to be able to skip this step.

Last time I tried it was unskippable via UI.

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