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by Liquidor 1107 days ago
It's changed for the worse :(

I had to help my grandma get her new laptop up and running for the first time, with Windows 11, and it got to the account screen and there were no hidden/vague options to skip or go local. I assume this is because they detected an internet connection.

She literally had to get an MS account which apparently didn't work because she already had one from the last laptop. MS wanted to send her a recovery code to her email... Which she couldn't access because no computer.

Oh and the amount of opt-in screens after that? 10+ screens. No joke.

It's insane. There's no way she would be able to use her new laptop if she didn't get 2 hours of help.

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Correction: those were opt-out screens.