Setting a BIOS password stops Windows from fucking with most things in your boot partition, I’d open-mouth kiss whomever told me that tip
I told you. Now kiss me ( ˘ ³˘)
This info would have been so fucking useful a decade or two ago
I wish I knew that 20 years ago.
Always keep a backup of your boot partition, when dual booting with windows. I wouldn’t encourage a windows boot though
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“Hello, my name is [redacted] and I’m a recovering dualboot user. It’s been…wow, yeah, I’m 27 days sober using only Linux on my machine…You know, it’s like they tell you, you think you’ll never stop. You think “How could I stop drinking this Win11 slop? My whole life has been like this!” Naw, man. When they tell you that you don’t miss the taste, that it will come to disgust you, looking back. They’re right. They were all right all alo-” insert meloncolic sobbing for 92 minutes
“Excuse me…sir? This is a Wendy’s.”
It’s funny because it’s true.
The best way to quit Windows is cold-turkey.
Fucking goddamn I’d love to have a replacement to fusion 360 so I never had to touch windows again. FreeCAD is just awful, I keep coming back to it and keeping finding new issues with it. OpenSCAD is cool and useful for simple stuff, but it is not performant in the slightest and the lack of ability to fillet or chamfer edges is insane. Blender is great for 3d modeling but doesn’t work well for engineering modeling.
If you dont want to run a vm you could still try installing what you need with Wine or Lutris, etc. One day we will have great software for all niches but youre right we aint there yet lol
Fusion doesn’t work well with these and has only gotten worse over time.
There are some install scripts on github, but the end result is buggy to the point of being unusable.Really unfortunate because there is no free/affordable* alternative to Fusion without large caveats.
I wasn’t able to get those scripts working at all
Hell yeah. FreeCAD is awful. I use NX for work, and will do my personal stuff on there as well. It’s all just for me, I dont sell anything. But I would still love to use my own PC for it. FreeCAD is absolutely unusable.
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??? I run fedora
Presumptuous much? Why do you have to be so hostile
I have dual boot for long time already. Win 11 + Ubuntu. Although there was no any critical issues so far, except some mess up with internet connection on my ubuntu few times.
Or never let Windows touch anything. There are alternatives. Treat Windows like the virus it is.
I’m glad I’ve always kept Windows on a separate disk.
Don’t partition records on one disk affect multiple disks?
Not if they are on the (encrypted at that) Linux disc & uefi boots to that drive.
I think that would be unknown to a lot of people expecting to dual boot as a transition step away from Windows.
Oh, def, that’s why MS is doing shit like that (for a decade now).
I’ve def helped friends out with this issue before.
On laptop?
I’m sure laptops with only 1 NVMe slot exist, but you can just not buy them
Also on laptop, yeah - I only ever had one laptop in my life (a Gemini Celeron for like 300 monies), but it has two drives (both sata iirc).
(I only need it to remote to my servers & maybe some web browsing.)I assume this isn’t usual?
Yes, most laptops only have one drive. One with two SSDs is very rare, especially in the low end market.
The only real time it wasn’t rare is during the SSD introduction. Laptops would have a small SSD(because expensive) and larger normal HDD.
For any modern laptops, it is very rare to find one with dual SSD. I guess for your case it is different, my old 2012 Thinkpad can take dual drive too but it is slow.
I’ve been dualbooting for over a year now. Made sure each system has its own separate drive. I’ve noticed that every time I had to reinstall Linux, my windows boot entry is gone and then I can’t access it no matter what I tried. Turned out installing Linux first then windows was my mistake. When installing windows while there is a Linux install, windows will see the EFI partition already there and just decides to share it, and doesn’t create its own.
I found that out by accident while I was in windows’ storage management. There was no efi partition. Took a whole day to find out how to create one on the same drive where windows is installed and removing the one it created on the Linux partition. It was so painful.
Bottomline, install windows first if you want to dualboot. After that, even if windows takes over the boot after an update, all it does is resets the boot sequence and makes it default to it. You’d just need to access the bios and reset the sequence to prioritize Linux. That’s it
I have genuinely never had this issue while dual booting and I’m very confused as to why
Maybe I’m fucking cursed. I did absolutely nothing out of the ordinary. Installed Linux on a drive. Installed windows on another. Set the boot sequence in the BIOS to Linux. Installed osprober and ran it. The only different thing I have is the windows iso I use is stripped down using Chris Titus’ windows debloat script, and that one shouldn’t mess with anything as far as I know. It only debloats windows.
Tbh I think I’m just lucky because this seems like a really common issue
Don’t jynx it. Lmao
Windows is the virus
What the heck is the origin of this meme template? And am I the only one who thought this was Roger Stone?
It’s a spinnoff of the dancing prince Charles meme.
Just stop dual booting. This is self-inflicted harm. Setup a VM or find a native workaround.
Why Windows?! WHY??
Because in their eyes nothing else compares. nothing else in necessary. so why keep it? And we all know windows needs that 35Gb diskspace really desperate (for reasons)
that’s why i just deleted my entire hard drive and installed mint on the whole thing
Variations of this meme get posted every week, but I’ve never experienced it, despite having had tens of grub updates murder-suicide the Windows boot loader and grub itself across five or six different machines. Thankfully, it’s pretty easy to rebuild a Windows boot partition, but the frequency that I’m hit with this problem is one of the major reasons I avoid using Linux. Eventually I’m going to have to switch, but that’s driven mainly by Windows getting worse rather than any of the pain points I’ve had when trying to switch full time in the past having been fixed.
I know this one weird trick to avoid this…
I actually had a Linux update do this once when it updated grub. Took a bit to fix but nothing was lost.
Easily solved. Just run mkfs_ext4 on the windows partition, and mount it as an additional filesystem.
I’ll do you one better. Do you know what a windows update killed on my multi boot system? It killed the windows bootloader. I’m working on a permanent solution to fixing this bootloader fudgery.
Well, one permanent solution is to permanently ditch Windows
