mitsuhiko: setting up a new Windows 11 PC is awful, needed Reddit to bypass account wall
mitsuhiko · x · 2026-10-09
Well-known developer mitsuhiko (Armin Ronacher) vents that setting up a brand-new Windows 11 machine is a shitty experience — "when did that happen?" — and says he was basically forced to read Reddit posts just to bypass the forced Microsoft account nonsense during setup.
Related event: Developer mitsuhiko Slams Windows 11 Setup Experience(2 posts)→
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