Note: the MacOS part is false
Well, is it really an account if you never login to it? (or if you even delete it once you make a local admin account?)
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At this point it's much easier to just pirate Windows 11 Enterprise with massgrave.dev. But then again, you could also just install any Windows 10 version and sneakily activate ESU without an account. But at that point, it is even easier nowadays to just install Linux.
All you have to do is a domain join now. No skipping the OOBE via command line, etc.
If you have anything that straight-up won't work in WINE or Mono, or only partially works in WINE or Mono (eg. CUETools when trying to use external encoders with it; that option is broken in both WINE and Mono but works normally in Windows, and CUETools is a FOSS app suite distributed under GPL to boot), just run LTSC in a VM, it still lets you use a local account for now, and that also goes for Win11 LTSC, both that and Win10 LTSC let you set up local accounts.
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Don't you need a phone number to create an account?
No, I'm farming bing rewards with fake searches to convert that in groceries gift cards (a random bing search made with a Microsoft edge user agent gives you €0.003 and the sponsored ones give €0.012) so I have a dozen Microsoft accounts. They only ask the phone number when you redeem the bing points, not when signing up, and one time I got an a/b test where I could avoid giving my phone number (number must be unique and not used in another Microsoft account, unfortunately) if I agreed to install the bing app malware on a smartphone
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