[manwe150]

Microsoft has ensured the alternative is nearly impossible, constantly working to block any workarounds that users discover to use a local-only account. And it will even going so far as to silently reset the master recovery key if the original key couldn’t be uploaded (my coworker discovered this to his horror when finding out that not only had it changed his failsafe recovery key again, but also uploaded the wrong key to MDM—all data simply lost)

[ac29]

> Microsoft has ensured the alternative is nearly impossible, constantly working to block any workarounds that users discover to use a local-only account.

Local accounts still work fine for Win 11 Pro, I installed it a few days ago using a clean ISO directly from Microsoft. No special patching or command line stuff needed, making a local account is part of the official install process.

[manwe150]

Did they make it better recently? There's plenty of blogs explaining why Microsoft wanted this to be increasingly difficult last year. Just from quick google:

https://www.xda-developers.com/microsoft-cracking-down-on-lo...

https://medium.com/@michaelswengel/microsoft-blocking-local-...