Windows bites. brand new gaming rig and only a few days of using it when it now won’t log in because of a corrupted user profile. Even completely wiping the machine and starting over doesn’t fix the issue. WTF?

I swear to god software is haunted. Its not windows, its not linux its just software.

One of my best friends whos literally employed in IT support (and quite knowledgeable) has the weirdest ass windows problems. Audio not working, text in all browers being corrupted, excessive cpu usage for no reason. And then you have me with Win10. Not a single problem for the last 5 years lmao

Same with Linux. One person: House burned down because of linux. Next person: Would make Arch his wife

My work computer is a Mac for this very reason. Other than the occasional resource usage crash when I’m really pushing hardware limits, I have zero problems with MacOS. I got so damn tired of futzing around with stupid Windows issues for 20+ years that I just abandoned it. It’s got an ugly UI and cobbled together garbage legacy code creates so much tech debt that it’s a wonder it ever boots at all. And all the forced updates. Thing even turns on your computer at night and wakes you up because MS thinks you’re a child who can’t think for yourself about when you’d prefer to update it, if ever.

That sounds like a disk IO problem - or do you use a Microsoft cloud account?

@12bitfloat There are "power users" and there are people enjoying a flawlessly running Windows.

Most problems i had with Windows where because i wanted more customization, than Microsoft deemed necessary. Then i switched to Gentoo and my gaming Windows just works fine since i stopped customizing it...

Windows is as brittle as OSes like Ubuntu. It is just that they are designed for customization, maintenance and tinkering from the ground up. Everyone expects users to fix problems themselves and customize the hell out of their installation. So naturally, they don't resist as hard when a user actually tries to do that.

@Oktokolo That's the thing. Windows works wonderfully as long as you want the microsoft way of doing things. But if you want linux, it is a million times better at what you may or may not want depending on your distro. And your settings. There honestly isn't any "best" os. Everything fucking sucks

@Oktokolo No MS cloud. Just a brand new ASUS desktop and Win 10. The problem happened after the forced 22H2 update. Couldn’t recognize the PIN at login. Gave the error “credentials could not be verified” and “Status: 0xc000006d Substatus: 0x0”.

Had a chat with MS support and they seriously suggested doing a bunch of stuff that you can’t do unless you’re fully logged in. Safe mode doesn’t even work, so I don’t know what they thought I could do. They even tried to do a remote session. On what computer? The one I can’t log into? Won’t do any good on any other machine. Idiots.

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@stackodev did you try https://elevenforum.com/t/...

It is for Windows 11, but who knows - maybe you have a TPM and Windows uses that for credentials and fucked up... Could also try disabling the TPM and reinstalling from scratch - if you have an enabled TPM. Rumors are that you need an enabled one to upgrade to Window 11 though.

@Oktokolo Thanks. I had found that exact post as well, but even the clean, fresh install with a complete wipe results in the same error. I’m wondering if it’s a hardware issue that is corrupting things.

@Oktokolo Also, no idea about TPM. Consulting with ASUS next to see what they recommend. Is there no way to just force Windows to stop upgrading shit?

@stackodev did you try disabling the TPM in the BIOS before reinstalling?

@stackodev I despise automatic updates too. Microslop doesn’t like for you to actually own anything. Everyone in my industry (music production seems to be moving to the subscription business model. In my former job I was a VBA developer and workflow automation guy. It isn’t just the Windows OS. It’s the very tools they sold you years ago. Every time O365 would update there was some new incompatibility that I would have to painstakingly troubleshoot. And as you well know these updates are bug-ridden. They’ve turned us all into beta testers. Many times I was able to figure out what was wrong and get things back on track before I could even find the bug mentioned anywhere. But in some cases it was nothing I could touch even if I wanted to. Days of productivity lost. Ugh.

@Oktokolo Just tried disabling TPM in BIOS. still didn’t work. same error. Next step is to get the company who sold it to me to look at it under warranty. Barring that, BestBuy? I have no clue.

@stackodev If not even a reinstall with disabled TPM works, just returning it, is probably the best option indeed.