Whenever Microsoft makes me make an account and I cannot bypass it I just make an throwaway with not so pleasant words in the email. Followed by installing EndeavourOS.
I really hope this still works forever. Unfortunately I suspect, that one day they'll require a phone verification or similar, like many services do nowadays.
Not sure, but I just install Linux on any system that comes with Windows these days, I just don't have any software that's Windows specific that I can't run on Linux.
