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Why are you like this? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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[–] 188 points 5 months ago (10 children)

This is why I no longer dual boot and removed windows all together.

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  • [–] 52 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Realized I hadn’t booted Windows on my personal PC in 6 months and said yup time to nuke it all together

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Recently booted Windows to install a BIOS update with a Windows only installer and realised it had been about a year since last boot. Think it may be time to reclaim that space.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Most mobos usually have a bios flash utility in the bios setup itself, so you don't need to rely on the windows installer. You just need to stick the update on a USB stick (extract the binary file from the zip).

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Sadly that's only common for desktop PCs, with laptops it's a lot less common. But many can be updated from within Linux nowadays

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  • [–] 16 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    There are two or three work functions that can only be done on Windows when working from home. So it gets its own Windows 10 VM with just enough resources to perform those functions, installed with a local account and ShutUp10 to remove all the automated "feature" updates. If something goes wrong, I can nuke it and lose nothing.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Might be able to starve it further with Windows 10 Ameliorated. It's got a fancy UI now, but under the hood it's a bunch of Powershell scripts to disable a lot of the bullshit (or at least it used to be).

    Using IoT LTSC install media is good too, doesn't include a lot of the BS to begin with.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago

    Don't use your phone computer for work. Even if you're an independent consultant, S Corp or whatever. Just don't.

    For privacy and legal reasons, and your own sanity, just get a separate computer and only ever use that for work.

    Most of the time you can write that off anyway.

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I'm in school. I 100% need windows for proctored tests. Institutions that offer online schooling are slowly building infrastructure around Microsoft 365 and underlying tech that depends on windows.

    I get it. I main Linux too but you 100% need windows in remote learning. So it's dual boot.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    I honestly never had isses as long as both are kept on separate drives

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    Until you update your EFI and have forgotten all about the fact that non-Windows EFI boot images need to be registered with the Secure Boot key store even if Secure Boot is off. And that the key store is wiped when updating the EFI.

    And then you spend an entire afternoon trying to find out why your Linux boot every isn't even recognized by the EFI anymore. Fun.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I hade i wipe my secure boot enrollment for Bazzite once. Had to reinstall the whole thing to fix it.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    It's been about while so I don't recall if I had them on separate drives or not but windows would delete the linux boot partition during updates.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah, that regularly happens if both are on the same drive. I think windows should be in the front and Linux behind it to avoid it, but you never know

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    If I didn’t have to use it a handful of times a year for work I’d have wiped my windows drive and extended my Linux storage. Alas.

    I feel for the folks who can’t afford a second drive to dual boot.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    I have five machines, one headless, the other four on KVM, 2 Linux 2 windows. Mainly only use the one windows for work bs that I never want to touch my personal space. I spend most my time on my Linux machine and just use rustdesk though. Having three monitors helps because one is pretty much dedicated to rustdesk.

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