• Shady_Shiroe@lemmy.world
      12·
      9 个月前

      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

          • 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
            1·
            9 个月前

            Because it needs SATA emulation (needs to communicate natively with SATA devices), and that’s still not a thing in KVMs as far as I know.

    • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      6·
      9 个月前

      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…

    • exoplanetary@lemmy.world
      4·
      9 个月前

      I installed one when I made my first Linux PC last month in case I needed to use Windows for anything that wouldn’t work fine enough on Linux.

      One month later and I still haven’t used it for anything. I think I may have underestimated how fleshed out the Linux ecosystem is these days.

    • Jack3G@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      9 个月前

      I’ve been delaying moving my root arch patition from my HDD to overwrite my old windows install on my SSD for months.

      I feel like the potential problems that that could cause aren’t worth the better loading times from the SSD.

  • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
    571·
    9 个月前

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

  • Gogo Sempai@programming.dev
    33·
    9 个月前

    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.

        • Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zipEnglish
          4·
          9 个月前

          Oh yeah, deleting partition tables always felt a bit like (mini) scorched earth past-denying genocide. Gone but not forgotten. But also mostly forgotten. Nevertheless you legacy will live onwards through volume labels that I always use.

      • 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
        2·
        9 个月前

        Unless u have a ntfs shared drive which gets locked by windows if u don’t restart…

        One of the main reasons why I let ot boot all the way. If nothing else, it’ll mark the partition as dirty 😒. Sure, I can sudo mount my way into it, but I really have no idea if everything’s OK with it. So, I have to reboot, boot into Windows, mark the partition for a consistency check, reboot, boot into Windows again so it could do the check, then reboot again and (finally!) boot into Linux 😒… I mean, just let it boot all the way the first time, it’ll be over rather quickly.

      • Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        9 个月前

        Oh yeah, I’ve had that happen to me (only the one time, like a decade ago), once I realized what gives I solved it easily with GParted ‘repair’ or something like that (iirc?).

        Edit: ohh, I think it was a (full distro) live-boot CD that I used.

  • HouseWolf@lemm.ee
    26·
    9 个月前

    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.

    • sorrybookbroke@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      9·
      9 个月前

      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

    • tuxrandom@kbin.social
      3·
      9 个月前

      At that point I’d just get rid of Windows entirely. I used to have it on my laptop, and the updates it installed after booting for the first time in months broke networking. I never used that install so I decided to use the storage space for more sensible things.

  • TheInsane42@lemmy.worldEnglish
    251·
    9 个月前

    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.

      • TheInsane42@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        8 个月前

        Then still you can set Linux as default. Lilo had an option to reboot with an option to set a 1 time default. (that was neat) On dual boot hardware, I always set the one I want to default boot, which is in my case always Linux. (must still have a dual boot laptop somewhere)

        • 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
          1·
          8 个月前

          Linux is my first option, I just need to have a second (Windows). And grub also has the boot once thing, but it doesn’t work with BTRFS 🤷.

          • TheInsane42@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            8 个月前

            I don’t trust btrfs. Software that relies on not breaking is b0rken in my opinion. (Unless they finally fixed that)

  • PlantDadManGuy@lemmy.world
    275·
    9 个月前

    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@lemmy.world
      19·
      9 个月前

      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.

    • GarlicToast@programming.dev
      11·
      9 个月前

      Not so young anymore (🥲), 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.

    • bitwaba@lemmy.world
      112·
      9 个月前

      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.

      • greencactus@lemmy.world
        2·
        9 个月前

        No… The true Linux users are white, mid-40 men who only use Arch Linux on an old Thinkpad and who will comment “I use Arch BTW” under a video with a random dog eating a ball just to prove that the dog should use Arch as well, because it is objectively better than anything else.

    • danikpapas@lemm.ee
      71·
      9 个月前

      To extend your statistical research I’m a GNU/LINUX. user, i have never watched an anime, I’m white, extremely racist and a lgbtqia hater.

    • 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      5·
      9 个月前

      Heavily skewed demographic IMO. LGBTQ+ supportive liberals is what makes most of it, but I would bet that there are republican IT workers out there (or rightists, in general, if not from the US) or users that maybe like most of what the right has to offer, just don’t agree with everything all the way, like let’s say libre software.

      And I stole the meme, I wouldn’t have used that image for the meme, I’m in no way into anime 😂. Sure, Akira and legendary stuff like that, but that’s just a really good movie TBH, it doesn’t matter if it’s anime or not.

    • okamiueru@lemmy.world
      4·
      9 个月前

      My impression of linuxmemes (what’s the lemmy word for subreddit?) is mostly that it feels like the regular posters don’t use Linux. Either that, or it is automated and reposting stuff from 10-20 years ago that isn’t very accurate or relevant.

    • emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      9 个月前

      LGBT people are over-represented in IT, as it is less judgemental of such things compared to many other professions. Also, people who had to hide their identity, or question it, or read more about such hard to access topics, probably learned how to use the internet, and may have even developed an interest in fields like privacy and digital equality.

      As for anime, Japan (and China, Korea etc.) are major electronics manufacturers and designers, so their culture has influenced the internet, and particularly the more nerdy parts of it.

      But there are plenty of people with very different political views in the Linux community, from RMS’s infocommunism to Eric Raymond’s right-libertarianism.

    • Holzkohlen@feddit.de
      1·
      9 个月前

      No, but I find it funny, so I am willing to propagate that myth. We are also all furries, you forgot that part.

  • trackcharlie@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
    191·
    9 个月前

    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.

    • pewpew@feddit.it
      61·
      9 个月前

      Same, Windows also bricked my Grub install (which was on another drive). Too bad I have to use that trash for school

      • trackcharlie@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
        21·
        9 个月前

        I very much understand your pain, my drive died mid-year while I was at university, I just cleaned it up and added it to a virtual machine with win10 to finish projects with the windows based programs.

        Worked surprisingly well. I used virtual machine manager on arch (and now endeavour, I can’t stop distro hopping but I’ve stayed on endeavour the longest)

    • pip1@lemmy.world
      4·
      9 个月前

      Yup a Windows update messing with the bootloader before gracefully failing (blue screen) was the nudge for me to remove it once and for all

    • ExLisper@linux.communityEnglish
      6·
      9 个月前

      That also doesn’t happen to me.

      The last time I had Windows installed anywhere was around 15 years ago.

  • Telodzrum@lemmy.world
    142·
    9 个月前

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

    • Agent641@lemmy.world
      21·
      9 个月前

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

      • Telodzrum@lemmy.world
        1·
        9 个月前

        I have no desire to engage with an objectively incorrect view. However, you are the second person to mention refind which I am unfamiliar with and I’m intrigued.

        • AVincentInSpace@pawb.socialEnglish
          1·
          9 个月前

          systemd-boot is GRUB but without customization and fewer supported features (LLVM root etc). What more is there to say?

          rEFInd is (as the name implies) an EFI bootloader that, on every boot, scans all attached storage devices for a bootable partition and presents all those found in a boot menu with a quite nice graphical theme

          • Telodzrum@lemmy.world
            2·
            9 个月前

            Loud doesn’t mean numerous. Ubuntu, Mint, Debian, Fedora, Arch, and Manjaro take up almost all of the desktop install market.

            • 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
              21·
              9 个月前

              Yeah, and it’s a big market… all 6% of it.

              My point was, systemd is not the only init system, there are others. Just because it’s used by over 90% of the Linux distros out there, doesn’t mean it’s the only one, thus offering a solution that is tied to systemd is not exactly a solution. Grub already has it figured out, why complicate things further.

  • BoastfulDaedra@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
    12·
    9 个月前

    Just pray to God you didn’t pick “Windows Boot Repair” or you’re going to spend a while recovering your partition labels…

      • BoastfulDaedra@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
        3·
        9 个月前

        I hear you.

        The first time WBR killed my partition labels, it was before I could even properly restart. I removed the GRUB entry after that mess, once I repaired their labeling; but at least at the time, it would come back after every GRUB update. Later I just moved Windows to its own hard drive and left it there.

        Now I don’t even feel the need to bother with it at all.