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[–] 100 points 4 months ago (16 children)

The last straw for me was when Windows kept overwriting my boot loader. Fixed it by blowing away the Windows partition. Thanks for playing, we have a lovely parting gift for you!

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  • [–] 12 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    i very much prefer separate boxes, but i do have one dual boot system, and i let windows do it instead of grub. it sucks, basically booting windows up just to get the boot menu to switch to linux, but hey. it works. even survived an 8->11 'upgrade' intact.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    But Microsoft removed the "start Linux" option from their bootloader in windows 10 and higher when booting in EFI mode. Maybe you're still booting in CSM mode and you patched w11 to allow this? (W11 doesn't support csm mode)

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  • [–] 12 points 4 months ago* (2 children)

    You must have missed that the Windows version/implementation of SecureBoot ... and/or BitLocker... have had various NSA backdoors for years.

    Thats why shit seems to keep breaking in new crazy ways: Whoops, that backdoor got found out, time to rollout a new one, via a Windows update, that can overwrite your bootsector, on its own, whenever it wants to.

    They keep fucking with the bootloader and breaking most dual boot configs because they don't like the idea that they will not always be able to tap your computer via a secret warrant issued by a secret court.

    You can't build in a backdoor as a reliable method of spying on people, because people who aren't supposed to know its there will figure it out in... not actually very much time.

    There are very good reasons why huge chunks of the EU has their government agencies throwing out Windows.

    Google locking down Android is the same thing.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Yes. It's pretty funny reading someone so confident in all the extra security they're getting from Windows messing with their boot sequence, earlier in this thread.

    Corporate OS is going to corporate. End users and private files are rarely winners when corporate needs to corporate hard.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago*

    Its really wild.

    Like, a few years ago, I could have at least held my nose and said 'well, Windows has so many business oriented tools and services, that do at least 90% work for what any particular business could need, that... sure, fine, makes sense as a business OS, not a personal use OS, but enterprise sure fine whatever.'

    Now? Now after CoPilot/GitHub/vibe coding destroying half of Windows... the insane CVEs in the last few years, every tech CEO developing AI Psychosis? US gov policy just literally being: 'Our software spying is extremely legitimate, everyone elses makes them a terrrorist, and also you're a terrorist if you don't like our spying'?

    Fucking no way, you'd have to be ignorant, insane or an idiot to want to use Windows, for literally anything.

    They could at least be... subtle, or clever, or have some kind of even slightly convincing rhetorical position/explanation.

    But nope, just balls to the wall 'This PC = OUR PC'

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    it is very much a 'legacy' system that has no clue what uefi is. but it has plenty of ram, decent-enough gpu, and the cpu is still faster than some of the cheap shit sold today by the major oems.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    I've had the same dual boot configuration since around 2018 and this never happens to me, yet I keep reading that it happens to others. I really wonder what I did differently.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I've never ran a dual boot setup but from what I read having windows and Linux on separate physical drives is what makes sure windows won't Bork the Linux boot partition

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago*

    I've had the same dual boot configuration since around 2018 and this never happens to me, yet I keep reading that it happens to others. I really wonder what I did differently.

    We have very long memories.

    In my defense, an OS that I paid for breaking my boot settings was such a virus thing to do, it was really memorable.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Fixed it by blowing away the Windows partition.

    That's how my dual booting experiment ended, as well.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Gotta tell you, it felt better than I expected. I was like, "Yeah! Suck it, Microsoft!" lol.

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  • I felt that too!

    I was a bit nervous, but mostly relieved not to worry that every boot into Windows could cost me my whole setup.

    Now I'm going through a trying-not-to-preach phase. I just want my friends to feel as free of Microsoft's bullshit as I do.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    It's funny that they have been doing the exact same for decades at this point.

    Windows already fucked with the booloader when lilo was the default in every distro. They have no reason to learn, it's all part of the way.

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