I'm upgrading to windows 11 and I didn't realize how much more invasive it is towards privacy. I can't get past this screen where it wants my outlook email and to make an outlook email I have to give them my phone number. What other information is it gathering in the background?
I never had to give my phone number to make an outlook account. Did they change that?
>>108202025uninstall, get Windows 11 Enterprise from massgrave, during install when it asks for your email, click the small text in the bottom instead that says "join a domain" which is just an obfuscated button for making a local account>>108202032>Did they change that?No, it's always been this way, they probably just heuristically detected that you are a good boy (probably using Chrome on Windows, without a VPN or browser plugins, with tracking cookies and a clean IP address from a god-fearing residential ISP)
>>108202025Use LTSC.
>>108202025you can still bypass the online account requirment.start ms-cxh:localonlyor, even better, just use ltsc
>>108202025Weren't MS accounts a thing since 7?Also Sign-in Options > Local Account, or use RUFUS like a sane person.Or even better use LTSC, macOS or any of the countless Linux distros.>>108202032It depends on if you use a VPN or get a pozzed IP when making an account.
>>108202055NTA but I got robbed and bought a Linux online. As soon as it arrives I am planning to turn it into Windows. Is there a big difference in performance from 10 to 11? I’d rather avoid 11 with all I heard
>>108203120>Weren't MS accounts a thing since 7?There is zero Microsoft account integration in Windows 7. It all started in Windows 8, when the Indian CEO took over. Literal enshitification, if you will.
just use RUFUS you DUMBFUS
