Whilst I think Win11 is a steaming pile of bad decisions I do not know why you were downvoted for a legitimate and reasonably factual answer. I have two machines (unfortunately) in the environment running Win11, and a VM, and they all use local account options, and once logged in, you can disable the nag to switch to a Microsoft account. My feelings on "but I shouldn't have to disable the nag" aside, a technical user can easily achieve this.

> I do not know why you were downvoted for a legitimate and reasonably factual answer

I agree the comment shouldn't be downvoted, but it's probably due to the "Yes?" At the beginning, which can be read as snarky.

It is not obvious to users that they need to disconnect Ethernet and intentionally not connect to WiFi when setting up (who wouldn't want to connect to their own WiFi on their own computer?), so a possibly snarky "yes, of course, duh" is probably drawing out the downvotes.

I realize this.

It is partly due to the Windows, for lack of a better word, "h8ers" that will recommend a Linux desktop that may/will require just as much or even more "fiddling" to install/customize/make work etc. That harp on a thing like this.

Partly due to being older but still immature when it comes to online interactions, internet is less "real" to me and I tend to be snarky if I know I'm technically right x)