YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs

I am usually not that guy, but honestly, why not just install Linux Mint at this point

That's a lot of instructions just to use the computer you paid for and is yours...

Next type “ net user Prefferedusername/active:yes” and press enter.

A space is needed before the slash on this command, right? And no space before net.

Windows users: "I don't want to swap to Linux, you have to follow arcane instructions from the Internet and use the terminal to do basic tasks"

Also Windows users: "Now here is how you add a local user:"

at the first setup screen instead of answering any of the questions press Shift + F10.

CMD will open.

Type (no quotes) “net user Prefferedusername /add” (replacing Prefferedusername with the user name you wish to use) and press enter.

Next type “net localgroup administrators Prefferedusername /add” and press enter.

Next type “net user Prefferedusername /active:yes” and press enter.

Next type “net user Prefferedusername /expires:never” and press enter.

Next type “net user administrator /active:no” and press enter.

Next type “net user defaultUser0 /delete” (this is case sensitive make sure the “U” is capitalized) and press enter.

Next type “regedit” and press enter.

This opens registry editor, navigate to “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\OOBE”

Delete “DefaultAccountAction”, “DefaultAccountSAMName”, and “DefaultAccountSID”

Right click on “LaunchUserOOBE” and rename it to “SkipMachineOOBE” and make sure the value is set to “1”.

Close registry editor and type “shutdown /r /t 0”

Type (no quotes) “net user Prefferedusername /add”

Using backticks instead of quotation marks is the ideal way to document technical instructions like this here:

Type net user Prefferedusername /add (replacing Prefferedusername with the user name you wish to use) and press enter.Next type

net localgroup administrators Prefferedusername /add and press enter.

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Type `net user Prefferedusername /add` (replacing Prefferedusername with the user name you wish to use) and press enter.Next type

`net localgroup administrators Prefferedusername /add` and press enter.

  

Honestly in my opinion just pirate windows ltsc/iot ltsc/server ltsc editions

I've been doing this in command prompt:

reg add HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\OOBE /v BypassNRO /t REGDWORD /d 1 /f

shutdown/r /t 0

After reboot it lets you choose "I don't have internet" and you can continue with creating a local account.

And same people are complaining that Linux is difficult to install..

You could also just make the iso using Rufus. It sounds easier than this shit.

I thought they started blocking that work around.

Also +1 for describing things like the quotes and preferred username.

We had a guy doing remote file copy on a Unix system. Hr was given a sample like:

Scp john@server2:/data/incoming/filename.prt /home/john/files

He tried 5 times then complained to IT that the system couldn't find the file to transfer.

IT realized he wasn't replacing filename with his filename he just assumed the server new which file he wanted by typing filename. Lol.

Had a user given instructions to delete log data in C:/users/myusername/logs

User replies to IT: my system does not have a folder called "myusername"

i've run across a couple prebuilts where shift-f10 didn't work at any screen of the oobe. those just got clean installs via rufus.

Intructions unclear.

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Invalid command: net rap user Prefferedusername
Usage:
net rap user add             Add specified user
net rap user info            List domain groups of specified user
net rap user delete          Remove specified user

  

Sure. You could upload it to peer-tube, and have it be seen by a whole 11 people!

Better yet, this would be much better and easier to host as written instructions.

Which of them help normies monetize their videos?

Yes.

At this rate, we will be having a "local files are hard for the average user" debate, here, in another decade.

Which, maybe it will be, at that point.

Do you even have a general computing license, citizen? Have you even been through the vetting process?

They just can't admit that they're using ai for the server side scripting, seeing how it doesn't work out.

Well, they can take my plugins and Tampermonkey when they pry it from my cold, dead, hands.

We could see back in the 1980s that corporations were becoming more powerful than governments. And that power imbalance has only continued to become more extreme since then.

😉

Unfortunately it's not as easy as "join and post videos". Finding an instance willing to host your videos is a massive issue. You might even have to pay a company to spin one up for you, whereas YouTube will just host your videos for free. There's the obvious sustainability issue, but for a small channel, or someone who doesn't have cash reserves and is just trying video-making out, no upfront investment is kinda a no-brainer.

"Non-standard equipment" for Windows 11 includes PCs with Intel 7th gen or older processors, many of which are still perfectly good and powerful enough to run Windows 11. So, it's pretty sad that these videos are being taken down.

EDIT: clarity

Use Linux

Don't know if this is a useful perspective, I switched to Linux about 2 weeks ago, coming from windows all my life, and most recently win10. It's been tough, it seems like you can do anything you want, but you're gonna spend many an hour troubleshooting early on for sure, and if you don't have some amount of command line experience that's gonna suck

You know, Linux is great. I love it. I run a lot of things on it. But it can be a frustrating experience. Simply put, its not a one to one replacement and it will simply not fit into some peoples lives like windows has up to this point.

My personal experience with linux desktops (some arch flavors and fedora) combined with Wayland and an Nvidia card have been pretty abysmal.
On prior Fedora's and Endeavor, I had Firefox crashing constantly, no clue why. Crashes reduced this week with the release of Fedora 43 but its still not stable. This is something I've not experienced under windows ever since they rewrote firefox like.. 10 years ago now?
With KDE plasma, its system apps like settings crash. I've not had to restart my PC with the physical restart button under windows for quite a while now. But when using KDE, the whole thing freezes and will just not respond.
I've tried playing some CS2 literally today and couldn't make it through a match without a crash.
Vendor software for hardware devices (drivers) is missing linux support a lot of the time and while I appreciate open source alternatives, they just don't cover the edge cases I had. As an example: razer rbg lighting effects stacking is non existent on linux. Open RBG works.. but its not good enough.

I'm sooo ready to use KDE Plasma on a daily basis and really want to, but the stability I want is just not there yet. If you have simple use cases, don't stray too far onto the edge, possibly have older hardware and don't need Wayland or don't use Nvidia, I'd definitely recommend it. I use Mint on my 14 year old laptop just fine, but its got an old ass nvidia card, uses x11 with cinnamon and I don't game on it. Stable as a rock. I use Debian (headless) on my home server and it hasn't crashed with a 3 year uptime.
Desktop linux on a gaming machine.. I've just been disappointed.

Sorry for the dump. I'm voicing my frustration out of love for linux, not out of hate.

It's a tough change, I won't lie. It depends on what you need too, good luck if you need Adobe apps. The first while is frustrating, weird and unfamiliar, but there will come a time where Windows will feel that way instead.

Use Linux

Do not not use Linux

They already are poised for this as subscription service, they are selling mini PCs called 365 Link that only have enough OS to reach the cloud and run all M365 apps online.. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-365/link

Thank you. Yep. Can you just go ahead and leave your pamphlets and boot DVD by the door and we'll read them. We're eating dinner right now.

Right. A long winded response ignoring the subject of google censorship.

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Invidious won't let you play a video that youtube itself removed

Invidious suck ass, instances don't work most of the time

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=nietzsche+everything+taste&t=fpas&ia=images&iax=images&iai=https%3A%2F%2Flookaside.instagram.com%2Fseo%2Fgoogle_widget%2Fcrawler%2F%3Fmedia_id%3D3672172105093417820

Google doesn't care, this is most likely an algorithm taking down the video based on the title. Not the first time the algorithm took down videos accidentally see the copyright case below for example:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27004577

That was years ago, now it is worse.

Most likely Microsoft is paying them

Only if people can find the videos.

It's easier than ever to make your own website. You could vibe code one up super fast and throw up some images or videos.

Getting people to see the stuff you make is the major hurdle. These platforms have that benefit because everyone is already there.

Not to mention if you were able to get traffic to your site it probably won't scale well lol.

That being said you should all be making web sites! Things were better when there were more places to go

It's a big club and we ain't in it.

I recently set up quite a few friends and family with Windows 10 IoT Enterprise licenses thanks to MassG. Told them if they don't get updates past next Tuesday to let me know.

rufus can download the latest 10 or 11 iso direct from ms servers (incorporating the fido ps1 script, made by the same guy), so you only need rufus and a flash drive.

If it includes using Rufus I'm going to explode

utilizing things like ReviOS or something, by passing the forced account creation, etc.

Rumor has it their garbage AI thinks they are hacking techniques.

Seems like this war is going to take longer than expected

Fuschia, I think it was called. Their own Linux like OS, but with all their own custom tools

It's not about business interests. We live in the age of fiat currency and these are trillion dollar companies that do almost nothing of value. It's about control and surveillance and for forcing the peasants to use the algorithms. Competition is a fantasy taught in reganomics classes in college. The reality is these companies are a giant cartel that want to manage all the workers and brainwash us and absolutely will protect each other. It's not just companies but politics as well. What is the democratic nominee doing right now? Talking about why trans women should be allowed to compete with women in sports. They couldn't find a more offensive topic to make sure Trump wins again.

It's not in their interest for people to switch to something actually good that they will want to stay on, though.