No more updates for me , I'm staying with 10 since I rarely use windows and v11 is not worth the hassle.

It’s been over 200 days since I switched over… I bet windows would crash if I booted and tried to update

starts smoking while you hear rocks being ground up

I had this happen, and I updated, and now explorer doesn't start or launch when I log in. I don't use windows enough to justify reinstalling, so I just have a half broken windows install chilling in my PC

This is why it’s always best — if you absolutely must have Windows — to keep it quarantined on its own drive.

Then after seemingly working it suddenly starts lagging again, and I check the task manager and see Microsoft Office hogging all the resources and filling the RAM, but I don't even have Microsoft Office.

Then it applies an update that wipes your grub and leaves your system unbootable.

Just hardkill the PSU and delete the partition afterwards.

I have my grub set to 1s to Mint. Because of that I keep on accidentally booting to Windows like once a week.

I just setup a script in Steam to boot to Windows (you can find it on the bazzite docs)

For a while I booted to bazzite by default and just used that script when needed

Me pressing the reset button...

Yeah, If I don’t catch the train, I also just uninstall the rails and hope for the best.

Mine actually doesn't.

It's good that you're at least self-conscious of your deficiencies.

We'd know if we got invited to some.

If you need that for aggressive anticheat stuff to run, that makes total sense. I personally don't need it since proton is so good, but I also don't understand why anyone would hate on you for that.

I see some comments trashing dual boot, I really don't understand why.

Back when I dual booted, every Windows update was a dice roll whether and how it would decide to fuck up my dual boot setup.

Sometimes it decides to "fix" grub. Sometimes it wanted to encrypt something new to protect me from all the theives that wander through my living room. Sometimes Windows just had an update that was 1000% sure that Windows was the default boot entry, and so doing something extremely sensitive and rebooting to finish without telling the user, should be fine.

Windows under dual boot, for me, was like having a fragile semi-suicidal pet. I found myself doing constant research to rescue it from itself.

Eventually I did let it die.

So I'm not mad at it, exactly. I'm just over it.

Your second paragraph tells me you haven't even tried because the first part is just checking a checkbox in the steam settings to automatically use proton for games without linux support, and occasionally going in to the game settings (again in steam) to force it to use proton instead of a broken linux version.

And there's no performance limitations running them on Linux. If anything, performance is even better on Linux because it isn't running every single possible service MS wants to minimize support time and gobble up data.

Only exceptions to this are if you play games that want to do things in your kernel, or maybe if you're using an nvidia gpu, depending on your distro it might take effort to get that set up properly.

If you have an AMD GPU, it's actually quicker to go from start installing the OS to playing a game on linux than it is in windows between a) it not trying to steal focus to upsell you on other ms products, b) gpu drivers being included in the distro, and c) the defaults just being better on linux, thus less time spent making it less annoying to use.

It's just no longer true that windows is the right tool for gaming, except for a list of specific games that want to invade the kernel and thus I'm kinda happy that I won't accidentally run one. They don't even stop cheating (which should be done on the server side anyways).

I really don’t understand why.

Anti-Microsoft ideologues, mostly. Giving MS any quarter is antithetical to their chosen axe to grind. Pay them no mind.

os-probe, the thing that suppose to help grub mkconfig auto-detect windows boot menu entry, is by default disabled in /etc/default/grub.

You need to:

• Make sure os-prober is installed
• Uncomment GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false in /etc/default/grub
• probably restart for good measure
• Find out which disk partition holds your EFI system partition
• mount that partition on /boot
• run grub mkconfig and override /boot/grub/grub.cfg

Only if you have a swap partition, and if you dual-boot then that swap partition is gonna be overwritten all the time.

Is it Windows 98?

Jokes aside: You have to count the time from starting to boot Windows to restarting it, letting the computer do its pre-boot whatver-it-does-es, to back to grub.

And I find a minute a long wait.