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    [–] CarlosCheddar@lemmy.world 162 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I fixed this by deleting Windows.

    [–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 61 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

    [–] nexussapphire@lemm.ee 26 points 1 year ago

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

    [–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 85 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    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 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    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 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    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 9 points 1 year 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.

    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!

    [–] Corr@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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

    This same thing happened to me a few years ago so I deleted windows and never looked back

    [–] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

    [–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    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.

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

    [–] jaybone@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

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

    [–] pip1@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

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

    [–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 68 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    As a disabled dude: lmfao this is great

    [–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 96 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    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 45 points 1 year ago

    This britens my day way more than it should.

    [–] IDew@lemm.ee 34 points 1 year ago

    Fuck this is accurate

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

    [–] masinko@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

    This meme format has a lot of potential

    [–] luciferofastora@lemmy.zip 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    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 year ago (1 children)

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

    [–] luciferofastora@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year 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.

    [–] Pacmanlives@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

    [–] Michal@programming.dev 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    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 β€œsavage” by the monarchy, so they were β€œdoing you a favo(u)r”

    [–] ShadowZone@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    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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    [–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    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 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

    [–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

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

    [–] drathvedro@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    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 year ago (1 children)

    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 year ago

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

    [–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

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

    [–] ftbd@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    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.

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

    Yes, that works too, same principle.

    [–] electro1@infosec.pub 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
    [–] Ascend910@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
    [–] fl42v@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

    Just shove wondows in a VM or something

    [–] tekeous@usenet.lol 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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    [–] chraebsli@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago

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

    [–] vinyl@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year 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 year ago

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

    [–] Ziglin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

    Best bit is Windows couldn't boot for me either (all bios entries were empty). I'm glad I had a live USB laying around.

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