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[-] ProtonBadger@kbin.social 83 points 7 months ago

I haven't booted Windows since February and at this point I'm afraid to.

[-] YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca 47 points 7 months ago

Be afraid, be very afraid.

[-] LostXOR@kbin.social 25 points 7 months ago

If you haven't used Windows in that long you might as well just get rid of it.

[-] Morphior@feddit.de 37 points 7 months ago

Unfortunately not possible for me. I daily Arch (btw) and hadn't booted into Windows for months and months until my university professor came along and said "btw, we're gonna build GUIs using Microsoft Foundation Classes in Visual Studio now, and yes, you have to use Visual Studio on Windows in the exam". So nope, not uninstalling Windows.

[-] Hexarei@programming.dev 11 points 7 months ago

Sounds like prime time for a virtual machine to me!

[-] jlow@beehaw.org 2 points 7 months ago

I was wondering if you can do BIOS updates through wine (because obviously they only are supplied as .exes) but it doesn't sound like something I'd like to try ...

[-] LostXOR@kbin.social 3 points 7 months ago

Aren't BIOS updates usually done by putting the update file on a flash drive and installing it from the BIOS? I've never heard of updating BIOS from Windows with an executable.

[-] RandomChain@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

Yeah, some vendors do this, I think the .exe basically unpacks the .bin file then calls some API or something to push it from Windows while it's running. Probably done for the sake of more casual users who don't know/want to mess with the actual BIOS UI.

[-] Rusty@lemmy.ca 8 points 7 months ago

Yesterday after a reboot windows added a fucking bing search bar in the middle of my desktop.

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