Now that Windows isn't being updated anymore (unless you enroll for extended security updates), can this still happen?
Microsoft’s boot killing shenanigans convinced me to just scrub the taint of 11 off this time.
Been dualbooting for years, no problem thus far.
Put Windows in a virtual machine where it belongs!
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This might be the most dweeby thing I've seen. I love it :)
Only evil if you use one disk. :)
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
The Windows installer partition manager also does not ask for confirmation before formatting a drive. That was a costly misclick
tbh if you notice it early, it probably only deleted th partition table entry at that point
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.
I needed to know this about 5 years ago, when I lost a partition on my SSD because of a poorly done dual boot.
i've quadbooted a lot before (linux/freebsd/osx/windows), it works pretty well these days with uefi. was pretty hard to handle with legacy bios though
Why no Plan9? Are you even an OS enthusiast?
I wish it has more hardware support, it doesn't even run on my hardware
What no TempleOS? YOU'LL BURN IN FLAMES!!!!
lol. i only tried 9front like once but it was too difficult!
Different disks if you must at all.
Man you people never learn do you. Linux isn't secure from what windows is doing.
Is Microslop going to transition toward making Linux-targeted viruses that install Windows on Linux machines against your will?
"Linux supported hardware" is an outdated phrase only used in windows propaganda today.
For desktop? Probably. For laptop, linux support can be awful, because manufacturers keep introducing hardware that don't support standard drivers. Webcam? How about an IPU6 that needs kernel modules just to be detected and then special calibration files just so the image is not a stripey corrupted mess... How about no on-board sound because screw you I guess. How about a non standard USB controller so that you cannot even communicate over your USB ethernet dongle when the wifi is once again some special sauce non standard shit...
These are Dell and Lenovo Yoga machines at the University I work at. Some are absolute garbage where the USB is always powered and will drain the battery when the computer is turned off and no BIOS setting will disable this.
We are now looking into Tuxedo and Framework...
PS.: even windows has issues with these, where you have no touchpad and no USB anything (mouse, keyboard) until you somehow install a driver...
Yeah laptop hardware is garbage to deal with
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