Yes, it's part of my job, it's super easy, barely an inconvenience.

It was a few clicks and leaving my laptop AFK to install. The only semi inconvenient part was finding a way around not using a Microsoft account. Other than that, it's about as brainless of an installer as it gets. My dog could do it with direction from me.

It takes like 15 minutes to go from bare metal to login. I built my own PC in March and installed Windows from scratch from a USB drive.

@winterayars @Coreidan yep did it the other day just spam no and your done in 10 mins. obvs Linux is easier than that these days but op is overreacting or stupid

Yes, multiple times. It usually go this way:

• the installer starts
• I click on next a few times
• it asks the key
• next
• next
• nextnextnextnext
• the desktop shows up about 20-30 mins later

It's literally a nightmare.

Not op. I installed windows 10 on my custom built desktop and my kids custom built desktop, on VM, etc. Have not had a problem and it was pretty simple overall. I'm sure some folks do have issues, though. Shit happens. Is windows 11 shittier for install? I've never had the desire to try :)

I've also installed various Linux distros on the above and a few other computers (Mint, Nobara, Fedora). Aside from Mint not working with my AMD RX 6600, no problems there either, really. And these distros installed easily.

Again, ymmv. I knew Mint would probably fail because the 5.19 kernel does not seem to like my GPU. That's why I switched to Nobara in the first place (iirc the 6.x kernel wasn't available at the time)

I have installed many Linux distributions. What is your point?

If you’re trying to convince me that windows is more complicated to install then it’s pretty clear you’ve never installed windows.

At this point in the game neither Linux or windows requires more then a few mouse clicks to install their OS.

If you’re having trouble with either then you’re doing something very very wrong or using wrong/bad hardware.

Well... Not Arch

Yes, I've set up several work computers without internet. You can make a local account on set-up.

It's kinda funny how many people have no problem at all with a cloud account on their phone but get a mild stroke when Windows asks them to create a Microsoft account.

Don't give it internet access during setup.

When it asks you for an email use "no@email.com" and use a random string of characters for the password. Congrats, you can now use a local account on setup.