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[–] horsey@lemm.ee 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The partition is there. It's just that Windows overwrites the MBR as if no other operating systems could possibly exist.

[–] dingus@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's 2023, Linux has great UEFI support, there is no reason to be using MBR over GPT.

[–] horsey@lemm.ee 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My system doesn't have UEFI support, so there's that.

[–] privateger@lemmy.plasmatrap.com 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What? How old is your motherboard?

[–] horsey@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I have a 2nd gen I5 and a 3070. Great combo. It was my brother's old system and I hadn't had a desktop in 10 years, so I added the video card... guess I'll be upgrading sometime soon!

[–] SketchySeaBeast@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Jesus, do your video card's fans even come on?

[–] horsey@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Nope. The only time the GPU gets over 40-50% is when rendering AI images.

[–] MasterNerd@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bruh that bottleneck must be insane

[–] horsey@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, games are CPU bound to say the least.

What

I am genuinely impressed.

[–] jcg@halubilo.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is that a 2500k by any chance?

[–] horsey@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago
[–] dingus@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] BleatingZombie@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's 2023, Linux has great UEFI support, there is ~no~ ONE reason to be using MBR over GPT.

[–] dingus@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I have to admit, I'm a little surprised someone has a machine that doesn't support UEFI, because the board I bought in 2012 had UEFI support... 11 years puts most machines into barely being usable in Windows.

While it's a valid reason, guy has to be working with either some really old or very specific hardware.

[–] darcy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

its not that weird considering the cult-like appreciation of old thinkpads

[–] Electricblush@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The thing is... I think a lot of people don't know that they have uefi support...

I have had the same windows install and motherboard (AMD is so great with long term socket support) for years, and figuring out how to change my bios and os setting so that I got a propper uefi boot was non-trivial.

Uefi has been a thing for a long time, but it's not been the default for motherboards afaik. So you have had to go into bios and find the right settings.