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gdulli ◴[] No.45763751[source]
There used to be a much bigger scene around custom Windows installs and I hope it gets resurrected if/when the ability to create local accounts goes away. The desire for a tiny install is pretty niche at this point but I could see demand going up to preserve local accounts.

Or perhaps that won't be necessary because certain enterprise customers will insist on local accounts and it will be easier for pirates to just tap into that install path? One way or another, if/when local accounts go away I hope there's some option to work around it.

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1. mid-kid ◴[] No.45764518[source]
It still exists, and it's gotten way more reliable than in years of yore. Check out ameliorated, and its derivative projects, reviOS and Atlas OS.

There's also projects that modify a system less deeply, like Sophia Script.

These days the default windows install is so garbage that I have little issue running semi-open source customizations like these.