Bootloader’s gone boss. Now what?
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Me learning Linux:
I have no idea what the difference between systemd-boot and grub.
Also, I'm not going to check which one is being used, I'll just remove the one I don't like
Linux:
Get after it chief
Why did I have both installed? No idea. Did I have to make and use a recovery USB? Absolutely.
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I once redid the whole bootloader remotely.
I had a remote server that wasn't luks encrypted because I didn't do that some 3 years ago when setting it up.
So naturally I did the sane thing and kexec a live environment with ssh and a wireguard client, did an in-place encryption of the software raid disks, set up remote unlocking with VPN and rebooted.
And I still can't believe that it actually reconnected after that.
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Your system will break
So it is actually my system not Microsoft’s?
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You can absolutely fuck your system up doing crazy shit with Linux, but it all reads like 'I was exploring the uncharted cave, and did some dumb shit when i found a bear. So anyway, I found myself five hundred feet down impaled on a three different stalactites with one broken limb and two more completely crushed by a boulder, the cave starting to flood, and a justifiably angry bear waiting for me the way i came in. Didnt get back out like 6 am thanks the monsoon+sharknado. I had my trusty knife and my hair was long enough i could braid it into a serviceable rope, so I got out, but remember I hadnt sharpened it in a while and one of my arms was broken, plus I ran into a concentration camp on my way here so obviously I had to liberate that¹, and thats why i seem kind of tired today, thinking of skipping lunch in favor of a nap.'
Windows: "hello, 911? I slept with my pillow an inch to the left and I can't move now and my cpap machine is still working so I can breathe, thank God, but at least one possibly both lungs are punctured. Please send help. Oh god so much blood. I hope you're close."
¹with one functioning limb a now very dull knife and a few meters of hair-rope
The device I designed at work can be formatted and reinstalled without interrupting its work.
I so wish this were representative. I have been trying to install nvidia drivers on debian and doing so bricked my entire workstation lol. If you know anything about this don't hesitate to chime in btw
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But uninstalling edge would actually break your computer
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Go ahead. Fucking do it. Ah yuck.
also windows: "Can i use X app" "sure here's a .exe"
also Linux: "can i use X app?" "here's an open source alternate that doesn't work as well as the windows version, but you don't care about that, you just wanna be cool!"
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