An Account of Stupidity
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I set up new laptops all the time in my position as an IT Manager. I always use the "Limited Experience" (offline account) option and have never had to use an email account, not even once. I set up a new one as recently as 3 weeks ago. One other hack to avoid setting up the secret questions and answers to your computer user accounts - initially create them without a password, then go back and create a password later after your initial startup configuration. We only use Windows Pro editions (Win 10, but starting to transition to Win 11). Works great for me and I've never had to do anything with an email account at all.
Yeah, it's Windows Home only.
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What is fascinating, that you didn't even stopped to think - why on earth I need to provide ANY personal information to install an OS!?!?
"If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization." ― Gerald Weinberg
On the 'plus' side - after you try to boot a linux live disk and return to windoze, the bitlocker crud locks the drive and you can't get back in till you've logged into your ms account and copied down the key which you then feed to the machine to keep going. This effin thing doesn't even have bitlocker me thought - it's a lowly home edition. Well, problem fixed. Account changed to a local one without a password, bitlocker removed. C'mon microShit. Just make an os that's as good as 7 was.
