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[-] CarlosCheddar@lemmy.world 156 points 1 week ago

I fixed this by deleting Windows.

[-] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 58 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yeah. This crap was the last straw for me to stop dual booting.

[-] nexussapphire@lemm.ee 25 points 1 week ago

There's always a virtual machine if you need it for work.

[-] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 82 points 1 week ago

I finally solved this problem in my desktop by having two separate M2 drives, one for Windows and one for Linux. Boot & grub live on the Linux drive and Windows never touches it.

With Linux and Windows on one drive, this is super annoying.

[-] CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 36 points 1 week ago

That's what I did. And after going to all the trouble, I've booted into Windows 11 twice in 3 months.

[-] 7U5K3N@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 1 week ago

My wife had a kid about a year ago now.. before that I had been dual booting win10 on one drive.. kubuntu on the other..

I kept win10 for rocket league... When the kiddo popped out. I didn't have time to play... Anything at all actually.

So I just turned the win10 drive into a storage drive and I don't miss win10 or rocket league at all.

Any games I want to play I can install via steam and proton and I'm good.

Not that I get to play anything with an 11 month old. Haha

[-] CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

Friends don't let friends play Rocket League.

Well, ranked, anyway. Only game in 40+ years of gaming that I threw a controller over. Even Ninja Gaiden on NES couldn't do that to me. lol

[-] 7U5K3N@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 week ago

Yeah ranked was bull shit.

Some of my best gaming times was being drunk and playing with friends.

But man.. the community became so toxic.. and once it went free to play.. it went to complete shit.

I'm not going to spend $20 on a goal explosion.

Fuck all that noise.

[-] BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 5 points 1 week ago

Ha, I recently upgraded to an nvme drive from SATA, cloned the drive and then realised I need to move the windows partition all the way to the end to let me expand the Linux partition. Which broke windows. After about 2-3 hours of troubleshooting it was working again. It was around then I realised I hadn't booted into windows in 2 years!

[-] pip1@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

I had this setup but during a reinstall/update Windows still destroyed Grub. You have been warned!

[-] Corr@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago

I have windows and linux on different drives and windows killed my bootloader this week anyway lol

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

I did something similar, except I don’t have a second drive with windows.

[-] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago

And I have a laptop with no additional ssd slot...

[-] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You have another slot most likely, it's just populated by the Wifi card, If you're willing to sacrifice that and use one of those tiny USB wifi adapters you can use that as your second slot with a little adapter to convert between E key to M key. Also have to use a 2230 SSD since the longer ones won't fit in the spot.

[-] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week ago

Oh man thanks for the cool tip. Could be useful when switching ssds

[-] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 65 points 1 week ago

As a disabled dude: lmfao this is great

[-] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 93 points 1 week ago

Dang.
Hope new medical advancements will keep making your life increasingly easier, and perhaps one day even restore your boot partition wheel.

[-] KazuyaDarklight@lemmy.world 44 points 1 week ago

This britens my day way more than it should.

[-] IDew@lemm.ee 34 points 1 week ago

Fuck this is accurate

The whole reason I got rid of windows update and where my hatred towards windows started

[-] masinko@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago

This meme format has a lot of potential

[-] luciferofastora@lemmy.zip 22 points 1 week ago

I had the opposite once, years ago: I don't know the cause anymore, but somehow Windows disappeared from my grub.

By the time I had finally secured all my data with the intent to make that absence permanent, it did reappear (again, no idea why), but I was committed. Steamrolled the entire drive with a new Ubuntu install and haven't used Windows privately since.

I did need to use tools that don't run on Linux (even with wine - believe me, I tried) for uni and used a windows VM, my work laptop is Windows because I need the same tools and get no say in it anyway, but haven't had a direct Windows install on my system since 2022.

My private OS of choice is by now Nobara, though I also intend to use an obsolete SSD to try more distros with.

[-] yamapikariya@lemmyfi.com 5 points 1 week ago

Can relate. A lot of my college work required software that only wanted to run on windows

[-] luciferofastora@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

Shame is, I kinda like the tool (Microsoft Power BI) for its graphical interface and capabilities. Don't get me wrong, I have plenty of complaints too, and its promises of empowering users to find their own insights come with a lot of conditions. But I've also not found any comparable FOSS alternatives.

[-] ShadowZone@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

Had this exact thing happen to me. Luckily my Framework laptop's BIOS allows me to pick the EFI boot order and I set it back to the Linux Boot loader.

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[-] Pacmanlives@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

Why is King Charles stilling my shit?!?!?

[-] Michal@programming.dev 25 points 1 week ago

I'm sure the British museum will take a good care of it.

Apparently, you consented to it back in 1634 on account of the fact that one of your ancestors was considered a “savage” by the monarchy, so they were “doing you a favo(u)r”

[-] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

This happened to me after partizioning a fucking external drive in the windows partition manager. I jist nuked the windows install and now use wine or a VM for my windows needs

[-] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Maybe you should put some distance between yourself and Buckingham Palace next time you install Linux.

[-] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

I thought being about 1000km away would be enough but apparently not.

[-] drathvedro@lemm.ee 10 points 1 week ago

For me it was the reverse - ntfs-3g was constantly corrupting my windows drives because apparently NTFS is incredibly complicated and it can only handle a subset of that. But, the last time I used dual boot setup was more than 5 years ago. Has this gone any better nowadays?

[-] JustCopyingOthers@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 week ago

It might be that the default for Windows is to sleep rather than do a full shutdown. Whenever Linux looks at a Windows partition it looks corrupted. When windows starts up again it's inconsistent as some of the data was in the sleep image.

[-] AProfessional@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

It already detects this and refuses to write to such a partition.

[-] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Not if it's on a fully encrypted separate disk.

(Obligatorily: 'Also if you dont have Windows.')

[-] ftbd@feddit.de 3 points 1 week ago

Last time I installed Windows, it looked for existing EFI partitions on other drives. I could only get windows to create an EFI partition on its own drive by physically disconnecting all other drives before starting the installation.

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[-] electro1@infosec.pub 8 points 1 week ago

In my case I used to lose the Windows Boot manager entry... And only see PopOS.... I was scared of Linux, but it pushed me to explore it even more... well I need to send an email for example, and only Linux was in front of me.. So, thanks Windows Update.

[-] Ascend910@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago
[-] fl42v@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago

Just shove wondows in a VM or something

[-] tekeous@usenet.lol 6 points 1 week ago
[-] Soundhole@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

No it's not!

Oh wait, nvmd yes it is.

[-] chraebsli@programming.dev 5 points 1 week ago

thats why i formated the windows partitions on my laptop last week

[-] vinyl@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

I entirely avoided this issue ever since I started to mess with Linux with separate drives, and then brought in a litany of other issues by me whenever I wanted to wipe and reinstall windows or Linux.

[-] 9point6@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I don't know if this is a new meme format or not, but I've enjoyed seeing it on my feed today

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