• poshKibosh@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    82·
    2 months ago

    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

  • RobertoMorrison@lemmy.world
    56·
    2 months ago

    Always keep a backup of your boot partition, when dual booting with windows. I wouldn’t encourage a windows boot though

      • hansolo@lemm.eeEnglish
        29·
        2 months ago

        “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.”

        • grue@lemmy.world
          4·
          2 months ago

          It’s funny because it’s true.

          The best way to quit Windows is cold-turkey.

    • noctivius@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      7·
      2 months ago

      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.

    • LillyPip@lemmy.ca
      4·
      2 months ago

      Or never let Windows touch anything. There are alternatives. Treat Windows like the virus it is.

    • Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      Any advice for a Steam Deck user that dual boots windows to access games I’ve paid for but otherwise can’t play anymore on Steam Deck?

      • RobertoMorrison@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 months ago

        Surprised no one answered yet… I don’t have a steam deck, so I don’t know much about it. Are those games from the windows store? If not, you could try to get them working on linux with Lutris (or something similar). Generally I wouldn’t encourage buying DRM-free versions of games if possible (I know sadly that’s not an option for every game)

      • piranhaconda@mander.xyz
        2·
        2 months ago

        Yep. Depends on your exact laptop if there’s space for a second drive. On my old 2011 MacBook pro I uninstalled the CD drive and installed a second SSD. Well, upgrading the HDD to SSD in the first place… THEN a second SSD

      • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee
        11·
        2 months ago

        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?

        • Crashumbc@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          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.

        • mazzilius_marsti@lemmy.world
          1·
          2 months ago

          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.

  • DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world
    17·
    2 months ago

    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

      • DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 months ago

        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.

    • eronth@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      2·
      2 months ago

      oh good to hear. I heard about windows doing jank stuff on update recently and was really worried I’d have to fight with it soon.

      • DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 months ago

        As long as you do what I mentioned in my comment, you’ll mostly be fine. Worst thing that could happen is a windows feature update resetting the boot sequence to itself only. It’s been a breeze.

      • glitchdx@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        sometimes you do, sometimes you don’t. Different updates will break different things for different machines. Some people are blessed by Bill Gates himself, and never have to re-fix their shit. Others are cursed and have to fix random shit unrelated to the update every fucking update.

        I can’t prove it, but I think microsoft does this on purpose so that some people will enthusiastically share their positive experiences with windows while everyone else gets shat on.

  • Psychadelligoat@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    161·
    2 months ago

    Literally the only boot drive issue I’ve ever had dual booting was when I somehow accidentally deleted the GRUB partition (I’m still not entirely sure how)

    Grub lives on the drive with Linux, windows on an extra one, select which I wanna use on boot. Windows just updated like yesterday, rebooted right to GRUB no issue

  • AugustWest@lemmy.world
    12·
    2 months ago

    What the heck is the origin of this meme template? And am I the only one who thought this was Roger Stone?

  • Treczoks@lemmy.world
    7·
    2 months ago

    Easily solved. Just run mkfs_ext4 on the windows partition, and mount it as an additional filesystem.

  • Allero@lemmy.today
    93·
    2 months ago

    Put Windows and Linux on two separate physical drives and this will never happen

    • DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world
      8·
      2 months ago

      Oh it absofuckinglutely happens. If you install Linux first then Windows, windows will see the boot partition and use it instead of creating its own. Install windows first on its own, then install Linux. How I know? Hmmmmm

    • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      on two separate physical drives Computers and this will never happen

      Password protecting “bios” usually works if you must dual-boot tho.