this post was submitted on 05 Feb 2024
828 points (97.0% liked)

linuxmemes

21313 readers
495 users here now

Hint: :q!

Sister communities:

Community rules (click to expand)

1. Follow the site-wide rules

2. Be civil
  • Understand the difference between a joke and an insult.
  • Do not harrass or attack members of the community for any reason.
  • Leave remarks of "peasantry" to the PCMR community. If you dislike an OS/service/application, attack the thing you dislike, not the individuals who use it. Some people may not have a choice.
  • Bigotry will not be tolerated.
  • These rules are somewhat loosened when the subject is a public figure. Still, do not attack their person or incite harrassment.
    • 3. Post Linux-related content
  • Including Unix and BSD.
  • Non-Linux content is acceptable as long as it makes a reference to Linux. For example, the poorly made mockery of sudo in Windows.
  • No porn. Even if you watch it on a Linux machine.
    • 4. No recent reposts
  • Everybody uses Arch btw, can't quit Vim, and wants to interject for a moment. You can stop now.
    •  

    Please report posts and comments that break these rules!

    Important: never execute code or follow advice that you don't understand or can't verify, especially here. The word of the day is credibility. This is a meme community -- even the most helpful comments might just be shitposts that can damage your system. Be aware, be smart, don't fork-bomb your computer.

    founded 1 year ago
    MODERATORS
    poopsmith
    zephyr
    rtxn
    828
    Here we go (lemmy.ml)
    submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/linuxmemes
    171 comments fedilink hide all child comments
     

    Source: https://github.com/OpenStatsLab/statcounterdata/blob/5c0460384f14a198d5a6614beccd1c866c17c1db/parsed/os/desktop.json#L1481:

    you are viewing a single comment's thread
    view the rest of the comments
    [–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Be sure to unplug the windows drive before installing Mint to the other drive.

    Why would you do that? Totally unnecessary. When Windows is already installed any Linux installation respects it without issues. The problem is the other way around, if you install Linux first and then install Windows afterwards on a second partition/drive it nukes your Linux bootloader.

    Especially in times of M.2 drives (which are often behind the GPU) you only annoy people by telling them to unplug their Windows drive first. And they might want to use a second partition on that drive if it's bigger.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    always unplug the windows drive I've fucked my windows bootloader so many times because if your windows drive shows up in drive order before your Linux drive it'll fuck with it

    [–] [email protected] -4 points 9 months ago

    All I can read is "I don't know how to install linux"

    [–] agent_flounder 3 points 9 months ago

    I would do that because the last time I tried installing a new distro it fucked my windows bootloader. So your statement isn't universally true, sorry to say. I have only had this issue once on one distro. I have not spent the time digging into the underlying cause yet. It may well be distro related. I figured I would save a noob a potential gotcha, however.