• DreamButt@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    This was always really funny to me. Gonna do an update behind my back? Great. Go ahead lol

  • altphoto@lemmy.today
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    2 months ago

    If you do want windows do this…put windows on a sacrificial drive… Promise to yourself that there’s just garbage in there so it doesn’t matter… Install Linux on another drive. Have your computer start from the Linux drive thru grub. Set up grub to recognize the windows drive. No, no matter how hard that bitch ass OS tries to update your godly Linux install, it won’t find anything. Fuck you Microsoft! Knowledge is power. Now go out there and compute.

    • KubeRoot@discuss.tchncs.de
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      2 months ago

      I’m going to call out rEFInd for dual booting, since it doesn’t require you to configure anything and finds and recognizes bootable partitions at boot time. Less stuff to mess up, less work when you want to add/remove an OS.

  • MehBlah@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I haven’t had this problem. I use two hard drives and when I boot windows I boot it off the drive its installed to.

  • NominatedNemesis@reddthat.com
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    2 months ago

    I went nuclear, when gaming was still hit or miss (only wine existed) since I only installed windows to update my BIOS. I advise to use a separate harddrive and do not do as I did: Used gparted to separate space for windows in my data drive, installed, updated the BIOS, used gparted to recover my initial state. I was sweating the whole time, but all of my data was intact.

  • MoffKalast@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    It’s really funny when you have grub configured with linux as the default. Then when you select windows it’s 50% chance it’ll update something and reboot, booting you back to linux lmao. I guess they don’t really want me to use it.

    • titanicx@lemmy.zip
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      2 months ago

      I mean honestly you should be updating your Linux partition as well probably much more often than you already are. It’s not the windows has more updates their updates are just automated whereas you have to actually trigger mostly updates on Linux.

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        2 months ago

        You can update linux without having to reboot for the most part, windows reboots literally twice for every tiny patch.

  • tackleberry@thelemmy.club
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    2 months ago

    this is why we don’t dual-boot with Windows anymore. Linux only. No computing device in my household runs on any version of Windows

  • _thebrain_@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    Everyone saying you need two harddrives needs to know: all you need are 2 efi partitions: one for windows one for linux… You can have them on the same drive. It’s nonstandard, but I have never found a machine where it doesn’t work.

  • Zink@programming.dev
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    2 months ago

    My Windows partition at work went unused for several months before I wiped it.

    At home it took about two weeks before I reclaimed that space!