Do people complain about that? Like, life long windows/mac users who aren't interested in linux I guess? I always thought people loved being able to do everything from the command line.

I learned bash and then needed to use powershell once later down the road; that was.. that was bad.

Not bad for me, was actually great for me because now I just main Linux; but powershell, while I get it... don't do that to people.

You didn't have to use to do this to your OS when Windows was still good.

It's only the absolute shitfest that Win 10/11 ended up being that you have to conjure 300 arcane powershell commands just to get the OS to resemble a productive environment.

I think every single Windows release has necessitated some registry hacks to bring back useful features from the previous version

Yes, but more and more every version.

Especially true since they ended the service pack model. Continuous updates and hostile feature pushing is absolute cancer.

> People complain about how they hate to use the command line in Linux

They do? How else does one use Linux if not via CLI? You mean those kiddies that like GNOME/KDE? pfffft, they're not "using" Linux. They're just using Linux to run other apps no different than using a ChromeBook

Unless you are somehow manually issuing syscalls, you aren't "using" Linux either. I guess you mostly use GNU/Linux.

... Or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux.

Or GNU / Systemd / Linux

hmmm, news to me.

i thought i used Linux all these years, but i guess i dont.

You're not supposed to do this, this is to get around a restriction on installing Windows 11 on certain hardware. If your computer is supported and you install it the way Microsoft wants you to, then you won't be typing any commands anywhere.

Generally curious, I don't see anything about hardware. Isn't this is about making a login that doesn't require you to login to MS's cloud. Also, what HW restriction does Microsoft want? Why do they care?

Windows 11 requires TPM 2.0, that's the actual reason a massive number of PCs can't update to it. There's apparently some way you can hack around that and install it. I assumed that's what these videos were about. But from the reddit post it looks like it's talking about both that and the account login issue which I wasn't familiar with.

> including how to install Windows 11 without logging into a Microsoft account and how to install Windows 11 on unsupported hardware.

Yes this is about a local login, it has nothing to do with hardware.

> You're not supposed to do this,

Clearly. You're not supposed to own your computer, you're supposed to be a docile loyal rentoid.

> If your computer is supported

That's not really the use-case for this. It's not possible anymore to use Windows with a local account (for a long time), the official UI only lets you login with a Microsoft Account. These commands are not used to install Windows on an unsupported PC, they're being used to create a local-only account.

I for one still got a Windows boot partition next to my Linux, but I refuse to create an account for it. The only way I can install Windows on my supported PC with a local account is by using these commands.

You used to be able to just press a small button. Then you had to disconnect the LAN cable and not connect a WLAN to create a local account. Then you had to open the Commandline and execute a single command. Now we're at the point where you have to execute multiple commands.

If they actually manage to make it impossible to use Windows local-only, that will truly be the nail in the coffin for me. Currently use Windows to play games which aren't supported on Linux, but this will turn into a hate_for_online_forcing > appreciation_for_kernel_level_anticheat_shitgames.