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    [–] [email protected] 91 points 10 months ago (53 children)

    Imagine having Windows installed in 2024. /s

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    [–] [email protected] 65 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)
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    [–] [email protected] 59 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    You guys have windows partitions?

    [–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    I keep dual windows on laptop for rare occasions cuz I don't like dealing with passthrough for special USB cables that require their own drivers on VMs

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    [–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Not on bare metal, for this reason

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    [–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

    I do. I wanted to finish something there that I couldn't easily move to Linux. A DVD project using files scattered accross the system in DVDStyler. I didn't notice DVDStyler works on Linux.
    Now I am basically keeping it due to sunk cost fallancy. It has lots of menus and videos, plus some of them I cut myself. But I don't even remember where I ended. There was also something about color limitation in menus I wanted to fix. I last shut it down during an update about 2-3 years ago.
    But who knows, maybe later at some point...

    But I could really use those extra 400GB. I only have 15GiB free right now...

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    [–] [email protected] 58 points 10 months ago

    Skill issue. Can't click a Windows entry if you don't have one!

    [–] [email protected] 43 points 10 months ago

    Can't click on Windows, if have no Windows 😏

    [–] [email protected] 39 points 10 months ago

    You use your mouse for GRUB?

    [–] [email protected] 37 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    Me with only linux installed: not a problem i face, no

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    [–] [email protected] 33 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    Ah old days... I used to boot into Windows 10 just for gaming but when Valve's Proton matured to the point that all my games could work on Linux I very happily nuked it out of existence. But yeah if someone plays Fortnite or needs Adobe products then you still can't do much unfortunately.

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)
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    [–] Evil_Shrubbery 33 points 10 months ago (10 children)

    Just hold the power button until it gets quiet.

    ... shush, don't fight it, it will be over soon.

    [–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    I always imagine this when hard rebooting any device

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    [–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    I know, I know... we were just not meant to be, sorry...

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    It could be installing updates

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    [–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    I haven't booted into my windows 10 drive in months, I fear the amount of updates it will force apon me if I accidentally do.

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

    I was in that situation a while ago, so I booted in to try and keep it up to date. Well, in reality I booted into recovery mode as it decided to die. Anyway I'm now duel booting arch and tumbleweed

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    [–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago (7 children)

    How?

    No dual boot here, Windows is confined to a VM. Even in the ancient times I had dual boot, last century, Linux was always the default.

    [–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    There's also the possibility of selecting the last booted OS by default instead of a specific entry

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    [–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago (12 children)

    I'm not into programming, and I'm an LGBTQIA Ally. Just genuinely curious. Are 90% of Linux users really young white femboys with anime body pillows? Or is Lemmy just a heavily skewed demographic?

    [–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    It’s mostly just a stereotype. I know plenty of young white femboys who use Windows, and I’m a Linux user who is young and white but definitely not a femboy. I would say 90% of Linux users probably know how to program though.

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    [–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

    Not so young anymore (πŸ₯²), not a femboy and no body pillows here. Been using Linux for almost 20 years now. More than 10 exclusivly Linux.

    The young, single, femboys just has more time to creat more memes.

    [–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

    It's just Lemmy!

    [–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Dual booters are fem-boys with anime body pillows.

    Those brave enough to take the full plunge and single boot Linux are fem-men with anime body pillows.

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    [–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    these comments always remind me how small the amount of my peers here probably is. i wonder how many other lemmy users have cooked crack

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    [–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Windows is installing update 2 of 48...

    [–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

    Yeah, that was back in the WinVista/7/8/8.1 days, it doesn't show the number of updates any more. Plus, a lot of the updates are cumulative, they abandoned their earlier model.

    And, I have to admit, the update process is a lot faster now and a lot less error prone.

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

    it doesn't show the number of updates

    Huh didn't think of that.

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    [–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    When the windows update bricked my OS I sighed in pure relief as I could finally stop using windows forever. As an added bonus I didn't lose any work because the drive was fully accessible to arch.... after windows said it had encrypted the drive.

    Absolute trash operating system and I have zero regrets leaving.

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    [–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    That just doesn't happen to me.

    I use rEFInd.

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    [–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Just pray to God you didn't pick "Windows Boot Repair" or you're going to spend a while recovering your partition labels...

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    [–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (12 children)

    People are still using GRUB to dual boot? It’s not 2010 anymore. systemd-boot is the objectively superior choice.

    [–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago

    I just unplug the exposed SATA cable from one ssd and plug it into the other SSD. I am the bootloader

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    Is systemd-boot a bootloader?

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    It’s a boot manager, technically.

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    [–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    you don’t have it default to linux..?

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    [–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    What Windows? I got Debian, and some shit that tests my memory.

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    [–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

    Takes gazillion years to boot

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

    same thing happens to me but with temple os

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (7 children)

    does anyone know how to actually reorganze a grub menu? every time I try to Google it I only get results for some old software that hasnt been updated in ~~over a decade~~ 8 years. its a huge pain to have to select the distro I want every time just because its not first

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