Fucking up my UEFI on my laptop, making it difficult to boot into Linux.
Undoing that.
this post was submitted on 13 Jul 2023
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Bootloaders don't interact with the UEFI, the UEFI interacts with the bootloader.
Sounds like you just used a bad one. systemd-boot is superb, it autodetects all kernals and shows an option to access the UEFI.
Windows however, assumes it owns your boot partition, so likes to delete Linux bootloaders if installed last.
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I would love to use Linux on my laptop but the touchpad isn't recognised and only has windows drivers :( i have tried so much stuff but it didnt work out. My desktop is mostly for gaming so windows makes more sense.
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Huh, who pinned this retarded comment
My laptop's trackpad doesn't work in linux and I keep losing my mouse.
Admittedly, it's been a long time since I did anything with linux, but I have done some. I'm not a developer, I don't know how to write any code. I know some DOS scripting and now some powershell. If I need to do anything slightly different with linux, it would require me to learn a whole new scripting language, and all of the documentation I've seen for anything linux seems to be written for an audience of people who already really know what they're doing in linux and just need a specific reference material.
I've had mainly Windows machines all my life, I have been forced by necessity to figure out how to do what I need on those. I imagine if I'd had linux machines since ... 1995? I would feel as comfortable with linux now. But the barrier to entry to even having a linux machine, let alone making it do what I needed it to do, back in the late 90s, early 2000s, was way higher than it was for Windows. It arguably still is.