[Mashiro]

Unless you modify the ISO specially it cannot be bypassed.

This statement is factually incorrect! It has been proven otherwise from the times of the Windows 11 Dev leak and the release of its requirements. The modification of the ISO is just one way to achieve it. The ISO modification is nothing special. There are guides that provide clear and simple instructions to do so. The other very easy way would be to simple use the Windows 10 installer structure with the Windows 11 install.wim file that contains the actual Windows 11 OS. It's just as easy as replacing two files.

There is registry hack but It is finicky and unsupported frankly.

That would be another way to bypass some of the requirements and with this statement of yours you just disproved yourself and your previous statement. However, this statement is also so so. The registry hack is not finicky at all. The installer is the active part that so far performs the requirement check and the two registry entries disable the requirement check for TPM 2.0 and Secure Boot. Since the registry hack works it does it's job. If it would be unsupported it wouldn't work.

Did you even try it yourself? I did. It's part of my job to test new things in the interest of the company I work for and my own curiosity. Even more funny is that I could install Windows 11 in a VM without TPM (no TPM at all) and no Secure Boot without any hacks. Moreover the VM host had a unsupported old Intel Core 6000 CPU and it had no supported GPU. The Insider Preview installed instantly without any issues and that even on an MBR partition with legacy mode (the VM software only supports legacy mode). It also installed fine on a older Surface without Secure Boot and other things disabled / unsupported... without any hacks again at all.

If you mess up something during the install it is on you and you can be left with a installation that is seriously broken.

Thank you for telling the obvious. If you mess up... you messed up. And that a messed up installation might be broken is also outright obvious. That it is on you... well, on who else would it be?

Microsoft can anytime turn off these "hacks". The OS it self is still in Dev build.

True.

So its in Microsoft's best interest to make these harder requirements and make you buy a new laptop or PC with it. Where they can make money back from those sale as they will be coming with Windows 11. Microsoft was never in your best interest, they sell your data as anything that is not truly free does.

Thank you for repeating what I already said in my post (pretty much at the end).

I would say stay away from Windows 11 unless they officially walk back on those requirements. It takes a de-bloater to even make Windows 10 bearable. I bet Windows 11 is going to be worse privacy wise. I already heard how in the Home version of Windows 11 they make you sign in to a Microsoft account and save all your data to it. You cannot use regular local account at all. These are ways Microsoft trying to tie you data into an account and then sell it the advertising company. So heed advice and stay far away until there is official way to bypass these nightmares and I am sure there will be more fool-proof method to do so in future when it releases officially.

My initial installation was also Windows 11 Home and I also couldn't bypass the Microsoft account requirement at first. That was with the latest Inside Preview. However, a colleague who was also playing around with Windows 11 bypassed it easily and I was amazed how. He simply entered trash information at the login window which somehow allowed him to create a local account by unlocking the option to do so.

And here is a guide to just do that: https://winaero.com/how-to-install-windo...l-account/

However if Microsoft pulls through with their always online enforcement in Windows 11 Home they might actually fix that in future Insider Previews and the final version.


Anyway. Just stay with Windows 10 until the end of its support in 2025 (if extended somehow even longer). After that the only real option is probably Linux or you simply pirate Windows 11 Enterprise and use heavy duty debloater tools with things like simplewall or other way more effective firewalls.