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[–] 37 points 2 years ago (1 child)

With all their talk about loving Linux you'd think they'd work on not breaking grub all the time.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I'm glad I deleted that Windows partition since I didn't use it anyways. And in typical Microsoft fashion they don't acknowledge there's even a problem leaving people in the dark. I'm never going back to Windows.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Is this the new embrace, extend, extinguish?

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    Windows is malware and deserves to be treated as such

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Am I right in assuming this only applies to single disks partitioned with both Windows and a Linux distro?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    No. Any efi dual boot is affected.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Even separate disks? Ouch. I'm guessing Fedora is not impacted here.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yes. Separate or single disks makes no difference, it writes changes to the efi partition that bios references to boot.

    I don't know whether fedora is impacted, the article specifies the following as documented impacts

    " The reports indicate that multiple distributions, including Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Zorin OS, and Puppy Linux, are all affected."

    And I also note that at least 2 arch implementations are impacted in addition to that list (i first saw it on arch forums).

    I would suggest you definitely DON'T assume fedora is unaffected until you check your install, fedora participates in safeboot so given all the article listed distros also do (and arch has a method for it)

    Odds are they're impacted, M$ has done a scattergun on this, the only ones you can be sure are unaffected are those still bios booting rather than uefi

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    My solution for cases like this is sudo format c: /q && apt install linux.

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