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    [–] [email protected] 91 points 1 year ago (53 children)

    Imagine having Windows installed in 2024. /s

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

    You guys have windows partitions?

    [–] Shady_Shiroe 12 points 1 year 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 1 year ago (4 children)

    Not on bare metal, for this reason

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    [–] grue 58 points 1 year ago

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

    [–] kSPvhmTOlwvMd7Y7E 43 points 1 year ago

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

    [–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago

    You use your mouse for GRUB?

    [–] LovePoson 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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    [–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year 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 1 year ago (2 children)

    I always imagine this when hard rebooting any device

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    [–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

    [–] shalva97 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    It could be installing updates

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    [–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year 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 1 year ago (2 children)
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    [–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year 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 1 year 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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    [–] TheInsane42 23 points 1 year 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 1 year 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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    [–] PlantDadManGuy 22 points 1 year 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?

    [–] exoplanetary 19 points 1 year 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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    [–] bitwaba 11 points 1 year 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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    [–] AlpacaChariot 11 points 1 year ago

    It's just Lemmy!

    [–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year 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 1 year ago (4 children)

    Windows is installing update 2 of 48...

    [–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

    [–] someguy3 7 points 1 year ago

    it doesn't show the number of updates

    Huh didn't think of that.

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    [–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year 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 1 year ago (1 children)

    That just doesn't happen to me.

    I use rEFInd.

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    [–] Telodzrum 12 points 1 year ago (12 children)

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

    [–] Agent641 21 points 1 year ago

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

    [–] maryjayjay 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Is systemd-boot a bootloader?

    [–] Telodzrum 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    It’s a boot manager, technically.

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    [–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year 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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    [–] desmosthenes 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

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    [–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

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    [–] rony4102 9 points 1 year ago

    Takes gazillion years to boot

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

    same thing happens to me but with temple os

    [–] Caboose12000 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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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