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Microsoft admits a Windows 11 bug is eating up to 500GB of storage, verify if you are affected. (www.windowslatest.com)
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[–] 9 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I had the same problem when I was in university. My concern with dual booting was if something went wrong, such as a bad windows update borking the bootloader. I didn't have easy access to a second device and I couldn't afford downtime during the term. There are also issues around clock sync or bios updates, and if you NEED windows for one course then its a pain to switch back and forth all day. Finally there are the unknown unknowns, I was new to Linux at the time and didn't know what could go wrong.

I made do with WSL and switched over when I graduated. Looking back, I probably could have switched much sooner, but I get the concern

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    That's where I was at with it too. I have a desktop which is thankfully Linux and will stay that way, but I figured it was too much effort to have a half Linux/half microslop laptop too. I'll just suffer with a bad laptop until I finish my degree.

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

    Your school didn't have computer labs? Ours had a bunch that were nearly always empty with all the software you would need for every course. I used them just because the screens were more comfortable than a laptop and it was often quiet in there.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago*

    We do, but it's a lot easier to have a personal device that you can bring into lectures and labs, and then take home with you.

    With some classes, it is expected that you have a personal device. There are laptops that you can borrow, but again you need to go in to borrow and return it each day and download/upload your files each time.

    IMO what we need is a student society Linux user group that advocates for classes to drop bad software and confirms that a particular class is ok. This would help non-linux users too since some of the windows-macos-only software is straight up spyware.

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