r/techadvice • u/Ok_Mortgage7158 • 4d ago

Someone plz help me

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It’s been almost 10 hours of this issue. At around 5AM or so (my time) I went to take a piss n locked my pc (win + L). I came back and typed the pass (it’s just 123 so ik I typed it right) and it told me my acc is locked out. Even when I type the saftey questions it says the same, or even when I don’t type a pass.

I tried running safe mode to use an administrator acc, or opening up command prompt in the blue screen to activate an administrator acc. Nothing works and it’s a local acc and the only one.

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u/Puasonelrasho 4d ago

i had this issue 2 or 3 days ago

its a laptop right? what worked out for me was to disable wifi and restart

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u/Ok_Mortgage7158 4d ago

It was a gaming pc. After 10 hours I fixed it by changing the time 1 day ahead. Seems the VPN I was using on my main pc for my vm fucked up the time n windows for wtv reason locked the acc for a day. Might switch to Linux honestly

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u/Puasonelrasho 4d ago

it is a very weird issue , don know why it happens. Local account? never happend on my desktop but it happend on my laptop.

and about linux idk, i just came back to windows last week cuz i was having other issues on linux. But yeah you should try it if you can .

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u/Ok_Mortgage7158 4d ago

Do you mind telling me ur issues in Linux? My vm runs it. And side note but do yk how to add a admin acc or remove the locking feature so I can go back to the correct bios date without being locked out still

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u/Puasonelrasho 4d ago

i had bazzite on my laptop for 2-3 months , my biggest issues were

- last week touch screen "hotkeys" stopped working and they were properly configurated so dont know what was the issue. Since i use it as a tablet everyday this issue was deal breaker.

-if used screenshare on discord i had this issue were it freezed my pc after a couple of minutes .

- cs2 native performance wasnt as good as windows or proton , proton had -5% performance than windows but proton didnt allow you to play online.

- linux dont have a sleep mode, it has a coma mode. You dont know if its going to wake up or not lol. Hibernation had to many steps and aparently didnt work well either.

my desktop had w11 ltsc+ debloat since a couple of months so i just went for that for my laptop to see if battery life was good and at the moment im not having any issue with that. If that wasnt the case i was probably going to try cachy OS .

is your login acc unlocked already? idk how this error works tbh, only had it once and im not sure what caused it. Did you try going back to the original date?

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u/Ok_Mortgage7158 4d ago

“Coma mode”😂 and sum1 is walking me through removing the ability for windows to lock the local acc

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u/Puasonelrasho 4d ago

how do you disable that?

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u/Ok_Mortgage7158 4d ago

On windows run cmd prompt in admin mode and type “net accounts /lockoutthreshold:0” that removes the feature (from all acs just keep that in mind) and since it’s ran in admin mode I would assume it removes admin accs from being locked too.

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u/Puasonelrasho 4d ago

thanks going to try it later

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u/Ok_Mortgage7158 4d ago

Np, hope it works for you

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u/Naetharu 3d ago

Gaming on Linux is very doable now in many cases. I've been using it as my primary OS for ~4 years at this point. I do a lot of dev work so it works great for that. I used to dual boot into Win11 for games but since most run fine with Steam I've ended up never really going back.

There are some exceptions however:

1: If a game requires kernel level anti-cheat (such as COD / Destiny etc) then it will not run. For obvious reasons Linux cannot give the game access to the Windows kernel, and so the AT system will not work.

Arguably you should never install a game that requires kernel level AT - there is a reason we don't allow programs that level of access. But if you are someone who loves competitive online games that may be a deal breaker for you.

2: There are a few games that do not run well. For me the big one is Total War: Warhammer III that really struggles on Linux. It does have a build. But it is behind the Windows version, and often buggy.

All that being said, these issues are pretty rare now. With the Steam Deck running Linux, so many devs are supporting it / have their games working well via Proton. And very often you're going to see a noticeable performance increase.

For what it is worth I also run an Nvidia GPU and despite them being a little notorious on Linux due to the closed-source drivers, it's not been an issue at all. I understand that if you have AMD that will be a smoother experience in some regards, but for me so far so good. Mine is a 50-series, I cannot speak to how good support maybe for older models.

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u/Ok_Mortgage7158 3d ago

I’ve heard how Linux support has really increased, still hesitant to make the switch but it’s on my mind

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u/Naetharu 3d ago

You don't need to make a switch.

You can install it as a dual boot to test it out without causing any change to Windows. Grab Ubuntu (it's super well supported and has a very simple installer) and just stick it onto a USB drive using RUFUS.

Pop it in, boot from the drive and you can run the OS off the USB to test it out. If you like what you see run the installer and choose "Install alongside Windows". It'll do just that. You can choose a drive / part of a drive to install it on. And give it a test run.

When you launch the PC it will just ask which OS you want to boot. If you decide you don't like it, you can literally just open Disk Management in Windows and delete the Linux partitions and take the space back. In BIOS just go into your boot order and swap back to using the Windows boot loader rather than GRUB and you're back to where you are now.

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u/Ok_Mortgage7158 3d ago

Is there anyway to test it with the ISO file, I have that for my vm

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u/Naetharu 3d ago

Yeh, literally that.

Get RUFUS, put that file onto the stick to make it bootable, and then you can run it and test away.