• gurty@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I haven’t booted windows in about 2 months and at this point I am too afraid to.

    • ramenshaman@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Last time I booted I to Win10 after 2-3 months my GPU driver just stopped working on Linux, which has never happened before, at least not like that.

      • gurty@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        Ah fuck, I’m not dealing with that right now. Windows can wait another few months.

  • Ignotum@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I always love spinning up the VM to run that one weird piece of software that we absolutely have to use and that only runs on windows, just to have to sit and look at the VM updating for an hour

    I would’ve ripped out its virtual network card, if the application didn’t require network access 😩

  • BillyClark@piefed.socialEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I have never dual booted successfully. I mean, I have set up dual boots. But I am fundamentally incapable of actually switching back and forth. I inevitably just pick one OS and only boot into that one.

    • BladeFederation@piefed.socialEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I only have Windows for gaming, and even then only use it for old games, multiplayer, repacks, or any other types of games that don’t feel like working properly on Linux.

      • BillyClark@piefed.socialEnglish
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        2 months ago

        It was only last year that I more-or-less just said “fuck it, if I can’t get a game to work in Linux, then I’m not playing that game.” So far, the only game that I wanted to play but couldn’t was a demo, and when the final game came out, it was playable. But I rarely go for any performance heavy FPS games.

  • Err(()).unwrap()@lemmy.worldM
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    2 months ago

    If I have to install Windows on a machine (mostly work-related), I always use Chris Titus’ WinUtil to strip out the garbage bits and delay or completely stop updates. It’s basically a GUI wrapper around various Powershell commands.

      • Midnight Wolf@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Also the fact that this joke/meme only works now if you opt-in to the extended security updates (since that UI from panel 3 is from w10). So op wants the updates but then is like ‘oh no, updates’. Which one is it, op? Which one is it?

        Hmmmm…

  • sirdorius@programming.devOP
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    2 months ago

    I wanted to use the current Windows logo, but it’s so incredibly stupid, you wouldn’t even recognize it.

    This is what happens when a $100 bn profit/year company is too cheap to hire artists:

  • k0e3@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    I don’t even know why I still keep it around. I haven’t touched it in like a year now since I made the switch to Linux.

      • k0e3@lemmy.ca
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        2 months ago

        Nice. Don’t you find it’s made computing fun again? Tinkering to get my computer do whatever I need it to is almost therapeutic. Especially when the occasional hiccups I experience is not due to the incompetence/negligence/evil policies of a mega-corporation, but because it’s supported by a hadge podge of very generous, smart people and we as users need to find ways of working around some of the limitations.

        I also switched to GrapheneOS last week and I’ve been glued to my phone ever since. Not doomscrolling but tinkering with settings and apps to get it working just the way I want it to.

    • HereIAm@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      I found that my VR set up is serviceable under Linux as well. That was the last thing I used my windows drive for. But now I have an extra gig to play with on Linux and I’m completely windows free!

      With some help from https://wiki.vronlinux.org/ and updates to wivrn it’s a smooth experience with my quest 3. But I would really like to move to a dedicated pcvr set up.

  • Fizz@lemmy.nz
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    2 months ago

    Sent this to my friend who dual boots and their reply was “thats why you use a version thats out of support”. It always makes me laugh how much windows users hate security because of the way windows has pushed it on them.

  • ohshit604@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I don’t dual boot but recently started using WinBoat in hopes of running Halo Wars 2 once again, Windows in a container is basically the same as Windows in a VM and if you do so choose can be volatile, therefore the data kept in the container can be erased after each time it is killed.

    However, Windows setup is a huge PIA so if you have the patience for it.

  • kattfisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 months ago

    And “Install updates and shut down” somehow involves restarting the computer three times, which is real fun when by default it boots Linux, so you have to babysit the installer just because Microsoft still haven’t figured out how to update their damn OS properly.

    • rami@ani.socialEnglish
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      2 months ago

      There has to be a better solution for that. I’m wondering if it’s worth switching the boot order in bios prior to updating but I guess you never really know how many times it’s going to restart either…

      • kattfisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        2 months ago

        Then you’d have to start the computer again afterwards to switch it back. It’s a hassle either way.

        I used to have GRUB pause at the selection screen. But it was annoying to need three interactions with pauses in-between (power on, OS select, login) before I could use the computer for the 95% of times I want Linux. Especially since memory training on DDR5 can take upwards of a minute.

      • BehindTheBarrier@programming.dev
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        2 months ago

        Lumine(boot manager) on my PC remembers the last boot choice, so when I choose windows it keep going to that until I choose Linux again. Have about 5 seconds to press a button before it auto starts. Seems like the most sane alternative here.

      • cheet@infosec.pub
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        2 months ago

        The worst part is on Linux efibootmgr can set the boot entry for next boot, like it’s already in the spec to say “boot windows for 1 boot then back to my default”

        They just refuse to play nice with anything else.

  • r00ty@kbin.life
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    2 months ago

    I boot into windows every time that one NTFS partition I never converted gets locked for needing a check… Come on kernel 7.1. I need that new ntfs with the fsck tool!

    Yeah I could convert it. But there’s some stuff on there I might want to run from windows, once every 1.5 years or something.