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Dualboot is evil, use only linux (thelemmy.club)
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[-] PragmaticOne@lemmy.world 14 points 20 hours ago

Only evil if you use one disk. :)

[-] ozymandias117@lemmy.world 11 points 17 hours ago

I'd had a dedicated windows drive for a little while... Maybe a bug and not malice, but the forced Windows 8 -> 10 upgrade deleted everything on my second drive that windows wasn't installed on

[-] fruitcantfly@programming.dev 8 points 15 hours ago

The Windows installer partition manager also does not ask for confirmation before formatting a drive. That was a costly misclick

[-] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 hours ago

tbh if you notice it early, it probably only deleted th partition table entry at that point

[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 7 points 18 hours ago

I had two disks and windows still fucked my secure boot keys somehow in a way that I wasn't able to fix so I had to reinstall the linux side. I turned secure boot off afterwards so should be fine now but it was a thing that happened.

[-] calango@programming.dev 3 points 19 hours ago

I needed to know this about 5 years ago, when I lost a partition on my SSD because of a poorly done dual boot.

this post was submitted on 13 Jul 2026
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