There's gunk in the Windows

I have recently as part of `$JOB` at `$COMPANY` needed to provision laptops for users and since the company is used to Windows, I have to setup that, and It is constantly fighting me to get things done and I explore it here.

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Recently I had to provision a few windows PCs for staff at work and I figured our there has to be a way to automate the process and such, luckily enough there is. Using automatted.yml in the Windows ISO. The problem is any time I try to use this method it is hit or miss because we buy different specs of laptops (I am looking to pick a standard per departments soon).

Now I gave up on that and luckily for me I found that SHift + F10 trick still worked on a few, and it just works from there, and for the ones with the gunk which is the requirement to have a Microsoft account. It is always so frustrating because I have to now change to local account and log out the account and ahhhhh.

Recently I saw a post that Microsoft had patched the SHift + F10 workaround and, it is actually quite annoying to think, the most democratised operating system is the most unreliable in the event of setting up quickly.

All this is ontop of one of the laptops crashing and refusing to take installation of Windows 10 and 11, and will happily take Ubunutu. This pursuit of constant market/profit optimisation among companies is ridiculous. Just to dump all that cash into the cloud anyways from fostering speedy development at the cost of stability.

I hate Windows and I might just start pushing for Linux at work. I already have it on the broken laptop that won't take Windows 10/11. So one step for me.

David Adediji

2025-10-10