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Windows just fucked up my bootloader... (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 7 months ago by TheCMK@sh.itjust.works to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I thought I was safe from this if I installed windows on a completely separate harddrive... I clearly overestimated Microsoft's ability to make on operating system that does not act like literal malware. Oh well! I guess I'm 100% linux now.

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[–] conorab@lemmy.conorab.com 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

UEFI or legacy BIOS? I recently installed Windows 11 on a machine with Proxmox on NVME but installed Windows on a SATA SSD. Windows added its boot entry to the NVME SSD but did not get rid of the Proxmox boot entry.

I’ve definitely had the same issue as you on in the past on legacy BIOS and when I worked in a computer shop 2014-2015 we always removed any extra drives before installing Windows to avoid this issue (not like the other drives had an OS anyway).

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

... may I ask what is your use case to install Wins alongside Proxmox (instead of in VM)?

In just curious & will prob learn something :).

[–] conorab@lemmy.conorab.com 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It’s a gaming machine. I mainly use a gaming VM with GPU passthrough under Proxmox, but the anti-cheat is some games (Fortnite and The Finals) don’t allow you to run them in VMs. So I run those games in Windows directly under a standard user account as a compromise.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Ohh, interesting.

Also kinda dickish of them.

[–] conorab@lemmy.conorab.com 2 points 7 months ago

I kinda get it. The host has complete access to VM memory and can manipulate it without detection. Both of those games are free to play as well so cheating is more of an issue. I have no idea what Back4Blood’s justification would be though.

That said it’s a PITA and given the massive attack surface of Easy Anti Cheat it becomes easier to justify running in VMs where you can isolate things and use snapshots if there is ever a breach.