stolen from linux memes at Deltachat
One time i opened windows to change a setting on my mouse that had windows only software
The app didnt boot so i tried to restary windows. It decided to update, froze in the middle of the update, and broke
After then everytime i tried to open windows it would send me back to the gnu grub screen
I had the opposite problem, I had my mouse all nicely configured just how I wanted it using Piper on linux, then booted windows to test something unrelated (which if I remember correctly didn’t even have the logitech software installed) and it somehow instantly reset my mouse to factory defaults. I decided whatever I was trying to do wasn’t worth the effort and have not had windows installed on my main computer since
You can “click” in GRUB?
Stop talkimg about your ex, Cartman.
people who insist on using windows should just run it in a VM, it has suprisingly low overhead these days, you can even game with it if you insist, but i’m hearing wine/proton is getting good enough that it doesn’t even matter
I mean I do that currently and it is okay, but file transfer is still not working. The rest is, and I think it even was pretty much ootb, but the SPICE drivers are a real hassle to get installed, while it could be a one click solution?
(This “insert spice CD” thing has no option to download the driver ISO, right?)
Also windows11 is a bit bloated. Bulk crap uninstaller and ChrisTituses Winutil really help making it less fancy but more performant, or just usable.
But yes, VM is way better than hardware. If your Laptop supports that.
And then Windows overwrites your bootloader so it can only boot into Windows.
I need to overwrite windows because currently I’m just considering my laptop unusable until I bother to fix grub after that…
Do it! Commence the sacrifice so that the great penguin in the sky may grant you its blessing!
The only SUCCESSFUL AND RELIABLE way I found to prevent Windows 10 from doing this shit was to remove the HDD from my ThinkPad on which I have Linux, then install Windows on SSD, then put back Linux HDD, then in BIOS deprioritise booting SSD, so I can only manually select and boot SSD/Windows when I really want to use it.
This approach means there is only 1 existing OS on my machine – Linux (Debian) – unless I quick select different boot device. There is nothing that can defeat this approach, and is the best one.
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Be sure to drink your ovaltine.windows updating the UI/UX with every new OS kills me. Wheres the ‘fuck off’ option when it asks for me to set up my personalization options and info?
I just wish they would literally and continued supporting Win 7. Everything after is just subpar from a usability perspective imo.
Simple fix here. Just get rid of your Windows partition.
OSHA would say having a Windows install is a potential hazard because it can become dangerous if activated. To remedy, you must remove the hazard.
Safety is no accident.
I was afraid of exactly this happening. So I just deleted my partition when I fully committed to Linux a few years ago.
systemd-boot for anyone that is tired of GRUB/Windows antics.
How does it fix that?
Truthfully, I don’t know what the secret sauce is. In my experience: system d boot is very simple and allows us to hook directly into the bootloader without any fuss. GRUB seems to be an operating system of its own and windows knows how to hook into it if you will.
At that point, wipe out windows, expand your partition and reinstall grub
Happened to me just yesterday.
Wife: what are you doing? Me: pushing the hard reset button. Wife: it’s not possible. Windows started booting up! Me: No, it’s necessary.
For me it was the opposite. I had Ubuntu installed and wanted to do a upgrade to the next release, took around 2 hours “settings things up” where I just said fuck it and force closed it.
My experience with big release distros was like that. I rarely had an upgrade complete without issue. Rolling release has been good to me so far. Granted, this was 10 years ago and things gave probably gotten better since.
Never had an issue with Debian upgrades
Which distro with rolling release do you prefer?
I used Manjaro in 2015 for about a year before switching to Arch and sticking with that for a long time. Recently I tried EndeavorOS for a few months, then I switched to Void just to try it.
I can solidly recommend either Arch or Void.
I like EndeavourOS (Arch based) and OpenSUSE Tumbleweed (or Gecko Linux). But if you prefer sticking with apt based distro Debian Sid is a rolling release.
Check out Linux Mint Debian Edition, if it still exists. It was also rolling release.
wish you could install only security updates
Long term service branch exists on 10.
