God bless your soul. 

 fingers crossed I just found a workaround that opens up the command prompt and lets me do it manually  

 They blocked that :( 

 Fn+shift+f10 then OOBE\BYPASSNRO in the coand prompt just worked for me.  

 Nice, they patched it in the latest version so that trick doesn't work anymore  

 Well then I'm glad I didn't fully update then I guess, even though I thought my computer updated a few times. 😅 

 I don't think Win11 is ever *fully* updated lol 

 At 1st boot, You have to make a temporary Microsoft account just long enough to log in and create a local admin account then login as that one to delete the Microsoft account lol 

 This was the final nail in the coffin for me. I had to login to remove the boot security so I could install Linux. 

 That's why I can never do win11. I guess I'm stuck with win10 on my dual boot till the end of time 😂 

 Fuck them... They want to embed their AI crap to check everything you do in there... They've even forcibly added it to W10 latest update(s). 

 why would you run windows? 

 Le sigh. Read the og post. I explain it. Tldr: dual boot for music.  

 What software related to music (production?) lacks Linux support? 

 Ya its pretty horrible, had to use an existing email or create an email and EVEN IF YOU CREATE AN EMAIL WITH MS, THEY LOCK YOU OUT IF YOU DONT VERIFY FROM A LINKED PHONE # OR OTHER EMAIL. 

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