Is there any way around this? Why is Windows doing this? Don’t get me wrong, I got the laptop to install a Linux distro anyway, but it’s helpful for others (especially my older family members) to just use Windows when they need to print a paper or do a small task, so I would have liked to keep it. Microsoft really lost me here.

Edit:

Thanks everyone for the answers. For reasons I will not delve into now, I ended up installing Windows 10 from the official iso Image, then upgrading to Windows 11. This is the longest and shittiest way to avoid the login as it simply used the local account I created on Windows 10, and that’s the road I took (not recommended). Also I ended up installing Mint with dual boot and I love it. I have windows on the smallest partition size possible (about 66G).

  • Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    16·
    1 year ago

    Use:

    a@a.com as email

    Anything as password. (Just type 1 or something)

    Press OK

    You will get an error saying it doesnt work and you can continue by creating an offline account, inatead of logging in

    Its the easiest way. You can also do some command prompt bullshit and restart etc but… my trick is easier and faster.

  • tychosmoose@lemm.eeEnglish
    10·
    1 year ago

    Just type a user name without an @address and a password and click sign-in. When it fails you should have an option to proceed with a local account.

  • cc8@infosec.pubEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    100% Inloggningsalternativ. Literally means “Alternative ways of login”

    • ???@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Yes. Congrats, you now speak Swedish.

      Edit: Ah I realize what you meant. Sadly even that does not let you skip logging in. It’s not a skip button, and it didn’t work.

  • cracktitioner@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    I’m pretty sure you can just Alt+F4 that and it’ll let you create a local account. IIRC, that’s what I did on my W11 laptop.

  • ciko22i3@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    Teach your older family members to print and do small tasks on linux. KDE and Gnome are really beginner friendly.

    • ???@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Yeah that was the plan. Turns out however that Ubuntu, Mint, and Arch and a bunch of other distros all recommend installing Windows first to avoid issues caused by Windows itself (so dual boot is the safest option).

      Sadly because I was so fucking pissed at this in the screenshot, I ended up trying to install Arch without setting up Windows first, fucked up my partitions, and spent this entire morning reinstalling Windows from an ISO Image (the Windows 10 worked but not 11 and this Lenovo doesn’t have Audio or TouchPad drivers for Windows 10 so here I am wasting more of this mortal time I have to upgrade to Windows 11, make sure all drivers are working for the few occasions I will be forced to use Windows, and then reattempt to set up Arch Linux or Mint).

      Tl;dr: Best to install windows first, then Linux. And also fuck Microsoft.