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I haven't booted Windows since February and at this point I'm afraid to.
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Be afraid, be very afraid.
If you haven't used Windows in that long you might as well just get rid of it.
Unfortunately not possible for me. I daily Arch (btw) and hadn't booted into Windows for months and months until my university professor came along and said "btw, we're gonna build GUIs using Microsoft Foundation Classes in Visual Studio now, and yes, you have to use Visual Studio on Windows in the exam". So nope, not uninstalling Windows.
Sounds like prime time for a virtual machine to me!
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Stop talkimg about your ex, Cartman.
people who insist on using windows should just run it in a VM, it has suprisingly low overhead these days, you can even game with it if you insist, but i'm hearing wine/proton is getting good enough that it doesn't even matter
Youre entirely correct about proton unless your kid wants to play fortnite
Literally the only reason I haven't switched to a Linux distro. I hate anti cheats so much.
To date I have not found any degree of enjoyment in any games with a windows only anti-cheat.
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You're still stuck when it comes to anti-cheat in multiplayer games. Some do allow it to work on Linux, but a significant number don't. Hopefully the tides slowly start to change thanks to the Steam Deck.
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One time i opened windows to change a setting on my mouse that had windows only software
The app didnt boot so i tried to restary windows. It decided to update, froze in the middle of the update, and broke
After then everytime i tried to open windows it would send me back to the gnu grub screen
I had the opposite problem, I had my mouse all nicely configured just how I wanted it using Piper on linux, then booted windows to test something unrelated (which if I remember correctly didn't even have the logitech software installed) and it somehow instantly reset my mouse to factory defaults. I decided whatever I was trying to do wasn't worth the effort and have not had windows installed on my main computer since
After then everytime i tried to open windows it would send me back to the gnu grub screen
Sounds like it did you a favor
I have a single windows 11 system while everything else is on some form of Linux distro.
That windows system has never been connected to the internet, and it has been great without ever causing any of the typical update issues (although I update applications/components manually over an isolated NAS link).
It's sad to see that everyday users have gotten habituated to these constant workflow braking updates. No wonder many people I know are jumping to the Apple ecosystem after getting a taste with a M2.
It’s sad to see that everyday users have gotten habituated to these constant workflow braking updates.
I've never understood this problem, people talk like it has a mind of it's own and i just don't get it.
I'm running windows 11 pro and have never had updates interrupt my shit.
Updates show up in my system tray, then it updates overnight when i sleep.
Most don't leave their PC on overnight.
I remember when I went on my lunch break and came back to see my PC part way through upgrading to Windows 10, which I never agreed to. So yeah, Windows update can definitely act bizarrely.
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windows updating the UI/UX with every new OS kills me. Wheres the 'fuck off' option when it asks for me to set up my personalization options and info?
I just wish they would literally and continued supporting Win 7. Everything after is just subpar from a usability perspective imo.
And then Windows overwrites your bootloader so it can only boot into Windows.
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Wait, you guys can click in grub?
Wouldn’t be shock for me if it existed. You can definitely do that in rEFInd though
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Be sure to drink your ovaltine.
OSHA would say having a Windows install is a potential hazard because it can become dangerous if activated. To remedy, you must remove the hazard.
Safety is no accident.
Too real. I booted up windows last week because I wanted to test something quickly before going to bed... starting it and testing my thing took about 5 mins; but then shutting down took more than half an hour.
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I was afraid of exactly this happening. So I just deleted my partition when I fully committed to Linux a few years ago.
Happened to me just yesterday.
Wife: what are you doing? Me: pushing the hard reset button. Wife: it's not possible. Windows started booting up! Me: No, it's necessary.
But I can’t change the taskbar size
Hello
At that point, wipe out windows, expand your partition and reinstall grub
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