▲ 878 ▼ Dualboot is evil, use only linux (thelemmy.club) submitted 3 months ago by calango@programming.dev to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev 170 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] PragmaticOne@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago (5 children) Only evil if you use one disk. :) permalink fedilink source hideshow 5 child comments replies: [–] ozymandias117@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago (2 children) 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 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] fruitcantfly@programming.dev 10 points 3 months ago (1 child) The Windows installer partition manager also does not ask for confirmation before formatting a drive. That was a costly misclick permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 point 3 months ago tbh if you notice it early, it probably only deleted th partition table entry at that point permalink fedilink source parent [–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 8 points 3 months 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. permalink fedilink source parent [–] calango@programming.dev [S] 3 points 3 months 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ozymandias117@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago (2 children) 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 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] fruitcantfly@programming.dev 10 points 3 months ago (1 child) The Windows installer partition manager also does not ask for confirmation before formatting a drive. That was a costly misclick permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 point 3 months ago tbh if you notice it early, it probably only deleted th partition table entry at that point permalink fedilink source parent
[–] fruitcantfly@programming.dev 10 points 3 months ago (1 child) The Windows installer partition manager also does not ask for confirmation before formatting a drive. That was a costly misclick permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 point 3 months ago tbh if you notice it early, it probably only deleted th partition table entry at that point permalink fedilink source parent
[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 point 3 months ago tbh if you notice it early, it probably only deleted th partition table entry at that point permalink fedilink source parent
[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 8 points 3 months 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] calango@programming.dev [S] 3 points 3 months 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. permalink fedilink source parent
