Not since 11, even the no network trick doesn’t work. With Windows 10 if you didn’t give it a network it was like oh okay, I guess local account is the only choice.
Windows 11 has a screen that says it can’t find any WiFi or Ethernet adapter, and that you need one and connect to the Internet. It really doesn’t want you to not have a Microsoft account, you have to kill the whole setup in cmd and make the local account yourself. It’s insane.
Not since 11, even the no network trick doesn’t work. With Windows 10 if you didn’t give it a network it was like oh okay, I guess local account is the only choice.
Windows 11 has a screen that says it can’t find any WiFi or Ethernet adapter, and that you need one and connect to the Internet. It really doesn’t want you to not have a Microsoft account, you have to kill the whole setup in cmd and make the local account yourself. It’s insane.
As of recently, it doesnt even let you open cmd during setup. Found that out when setting up a win11 laptop for a colleague a couple weeks ago
Or just use Rufus to make the USB 🤷.