I’m done with Windows on my daily driver laptop.

The reasons to stay on Windows get fewer and fewer for every passing month at this point, with Microslop pushing seemingly vibecoded updates that break functionality.

I’ve had bad personal experiences with Windows 11. It crashes frequently, suffers from hangups, and is stuffed with forced AI integrations. It has reached the point where even Microslop leadership has admitted that the implementation of AI has been scattershot and directionless. They don’t know where it will be useful so they’re putting it in everything and hoping something works out.

The frequent crashes alone should be reason enough to switch but the thing that finally got me to permanently jump ship to Linux was a login screen bug.

I use a fingerprint to unlock my laptop, sometimes out of the blue Windows 11 will disable the option and force me to use my pin. Annoying but I assume it has some sort of attempt limit which has somehow gotten triggered while the computer is in sleep. I’ll use my pin instead.

Here’s where my problem occurs. The pin is randomly rejected as “not available”. The pin to my local account… is unavailable? So it isn’t a local account? What is going on here?

I did some research and ended up with two possible solutions to my problem.

Workaround 1. The recommended solution. “Use your Microslop account password at the login screen.”

But I don’t have one… The pin and fingerprint is it, my only authentication methods.

Workaround 2. Restart the computer several times until I’m allowed to use my pin. Sometimes this takes one reboot, other times six.

Have fun stalling your work meeting while you do that.

After having this happen three times I gave up. It means the contents of my laptop can randomly be made unavailable to me completely on the whims of Microslop. In other words, I don’t own my computer as long as Windows 11 is on it.

The solution is Linux. Most programs I use are either available natively or run as web applications anyways.

There’s no need to stay with something that doesn’t work just because of familiarity, we shouldn’t be married to operating systems.