I am so yes it’s probably why.

The iso from massgrave was made with Rufus that can disable the unnecessary requirements and force creation of a local account instead of windows live 🖕

Then activated and lightly debloated with powershell. That makes windows usable for what I need it to, just launching games.

Everything else is done on a minisforum Linux or framework Linux (even sometimes gaming on it when I’m not at home).