• carpelbridgesyndrome@sh.itjust.works
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    4 days ago

    I haven’t had this problem since the early years of Windows 10 and that was because I was still on GPT+CSM boot. I ran the 10 to 11 upgrade blind and it just worked without torching my Linux install. As annoying as UEFI is it fixed most of the OS clash issues

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    4 days ago

    I haven’t had this problem. I use two hard drives and when I boot windows I boot it off the drive its installed to.

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    4 days ago

    this is why we don’t dual-boot with Windows anymore. Linux only. No computing device in my household runs on any version of Windows

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    4 days ago

    It’s really funny when you have grub configured with linux as the default. Then when you select windows it’s 50% chance it’ll update something and reboot, booting you back to linux lmao. I guess they don’t really want me to use it.

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      I mean honestly you should be updating your Linux partition as well probably much more often than you already are. It’s not the windows has more updates their updates are just automated whereas you have to actually trigger mostly updates on Linux.

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    I went nuclear, when gaming was still hit or miss (only wine existed) since I only installed windows to update my BIOS. I advise to use a separate harddrive and do not do as I did: Used gparted to separate space for windows in my data drive, installed, updated the BIOS, used gparted to recover my initial state. I was sweating the whole time, but all of my data was intact.

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    5 days ago

    My Windows partition at work went unused for several months before I wiped it.

    At home it took about two weeks before I reclaimed that space!

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      Part of what got me off my ass to actually switch to Linux is that my Windows partition is on a 120gb drive. I don’t need to claim it, my games are on 2 2tb drives that are Linux based, and 1 1tb shared drive that I mostly use just 1 of the games on, plus a basic “other” drive. I haven’t been back in Windows for months, but I haven’t confirmed all my games work in Linux yet.

      Biggest priority is getting all the hotas buttons working for Elite.

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    5 days ago

    Maybe we should speak to them in a language they actually speak. In this case, I am thinking the proper language is class action lawsuit.

  • nil@piefed.ca
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    5 days ago

    Dual booting may be a bad idea. You should run MAS-activated Windows in a VM.