So is Microsoft, albeit a bit late to the party. Taskbar now movable, performance improvements hitting insider builds, MS BUILD half about WSL containers, native coreutils, a dev edition of windows using Winget config to strip all the bloat out, all new system dialogs replacing a good chunk of the old Win32 stuff, WinUI reactor, ability to remove AI models & Copilot from the OS, etc.
Classic case of the reality distortion field here.
How did you do it? I had to set up a Windows 11 Pro install 2 months ago and there was no way to get past the Microsoft Account requirement, I had to create an account, I tried everything (setting up with no network device attached, etc)
Choose "Other options" then click "Domain join instead" you don't actually have to join a domain here, it just has to create a local account. That option won't be present on Home edition though just a heads up.
You can also use an autoattend.xml file on the install ISO to set up a local account (https://schneegans.de/windows/unattend-generator/) amongst other things like removing all the windows store apps, etc.
I personally would never have thought to go the Domain route, so I suppose you technically -can- have a local user but they don’t seem to surface the option.
Edition is probably a bit generous (although that's the verbiage they used at the BUILD conference), but its a set of winget configs (works like Ansible) to disable a bunch of stuff, install WSL, starship, coreutils, node, python, whatever other SDKs you want, etc. with one command. https://github.com/microsoft/WindowsDeveloperConfig
I believe they used the word edition because they plan on offering W365 cloud VMs with this config pre applied.
