It's time for a new out of body^W box experience. Today's tech support patient is a PC transfer to a new-in-box Windows 11 PC.

Power-user dicks when asked how to do a simple task: "RTFM!"

TFM:

OH MY GOODNESS!!!!!

(buried in a corner of the leaflet, but still...)

8D

I'm simply tickled that the instruction leaflet implies they offer FreeDOS and a Linux distro as home PC choices, in addition to all three choices having something approaching user-accessible manuals.

This leaflet instructions tell the owner how to do the single most important thing with a new computer: How to turn it off! Most excuses for PC manuals these days don't.

Okay, I'm impressed with the level of care HP put into its instructions, paltry as they are. It came with a wireless keyboard/mouse combo, and this is what they did for the dongle.

Once in the Out Of Box Experience (OOBE), Windows 11 ABSOLUTELY WILL NOT let you proceed without a working Internet connection.

There's no "skip" option, only a list of network interfaces and SSIDs that you ABSOLUTELY MUST choose, & you CAN'T choose a "No Internet" ethernet interface.

And this was BEFORE the license agreement boxes. Those came after the mystery hard-need of an Internet connection (and unannounced reboot).