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You won't be missed (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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I changed my main machine over to Linux in the beginning of April, setting it up on its own NVMe so I could keep my other drive with Windows 10 intact and dual boot when needed.

I've been having a blast - ricing hyprland, better workflows, great gaming experiences.

Then yesterday I realized that I hadn't actually bothered to dual boot once since testing out the Windows entry in my systemd-boot menu when I first set it up.

Guess who just gained a 1TB drive to install more games?

I wiped out the Windows drive with no remorse. Damn, that felt good.

Goodbye Windows, you won't be missed.

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[–] 3 points 1 year ago (19 children)

The problem for me is that there's nothing that properly replaces Rufus on Linux. That's the last reason I keep Windows.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    This is a joke comment, right? I upvoted it because it has to be a joke.

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  • [–] -3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Nope. I've tried to create bootable disks on Linux and, simply put, my computer does not boot from them. Rufus is 100% reliable.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

    Rufus, the bootable usb creator?

    You should be able to natively do what Rufus does in Linux, if you have a disk imaging software installed. I think Ubuntu comes with gnome-disks, you right click an ISO file, click open with, select disk image writer, and select the destination device (your USB drive) and it writes the ISO file to the USB device. You should double check it actually makes it bootable, but I think it does.

    You can also use Ventoy to do what you want. You install it to the USB drive and then just drop the ISO files into a folder that you want to boot from, and it creates a menu for you to choose which ISO file to choose at boot time.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (7 children)

    Ventoy, where the most reasonable installer is for Windows?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (6 children)

    They have a Linux GUI, though admittedly I've never used it.

    https://www.ventoy.net/en/doc_linux_gui.html

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (5 children)

    So what I'm hearing is that Windows stays as a backup, because Linux can't do a job that's more common for a Linux user.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Explain more, I don't understand.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    Trying to set up Ventoy on a flash drive through Linux looks like a hassle. Windows, I know what I have to do: download the installer and push the button. In Linux, it's obviously not that simple.

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