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Nearly half of Steam's users are still using Windows 10, with end of life fast approaching (www.pcguide.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca
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[–] 6 points 2 years ago (11 children)

nope, adobe apps are allergic to VMs too, less so but still. believe me i'm not hyped about having a whole dedicated OS just so i can run 4 programs, but dual boot is my only option

since i'll set all that up past end of life for win10 i won't be getting any security updates so i can safely just disable that option altogether, which will hopefully make the two OS coexist peacefully

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (10 children)

    I think the dual boot problems are generally associated to using the same drive. If you have one drive for each you can use BIOS to control boot order instead.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (7 children)

    neat! i do hope i'll have saved up for a proper PC by then so having two drives won't be much of a hassle (currently i have a laptop)

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (6 children)

    Many laptops support a second drive

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (5 children)

    i feel oddly unsafe when my entire digital life is running from an external drive. backups sure, but the main thing? makes me nervous

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Many laptops support a second internal drive.*

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    :0

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    It's a little like surgery but much easier than removing your own appendix (depending on the laptop).

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    my current laptop surgery experience is unscrewing all the bits around the fans to give them a good wipe from the dust, and replace thermal paste, that sounds like next level!

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    If you've opened it up enough to get access to the fans then you were most likely like 90% of the way to getting access to the hard drives too. Hell, on every laptop I've ever owned, it was actually easier to access the hard drives than the fans.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Yes 100% this is the problem. You can even add a redirect to Grub / systemd-boot to load the Windows bootloader from the other drive example for systemd-boot.

    Does not work with bitlocker though without diving into very advanced settings to control which events are considered insecure so the tpm releases the keys.

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