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You paid me, a long-time Linux user, to use Windows 11 exclusively for a month: here’s how it went (www.osnews.com)
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[–] 26 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

Multiboot was a common thing until Microsoft decided to make it difficult.

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  • [+] -20 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

    Having a different OS on a different drive is how it should be done.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    is how it should be done

    No it isn't.

    The whole point of partitions is so you can have multiple things on the same drive. Be them data, swap, or... yes, operating systems.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago

    And? Just because it's a good practice doesn't mean it's okay for Windows to go and fuck up every other OS on the drive. There shouldn't be any technical issues with having two OS on the same drive. What if you just want to test two different OS so you could decide which one to keep? Are you supposed to buy a new drive just because you'll need it for a month?

    What you've said is not an argument why Windows gets to fuck up every other OS that's on the same drive.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    According to whom? You?

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  • [+] -8 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    No one who wants to boot into multiple OS’s should want to have them on the same physical drive. That’s complete idiocy. Zero redundancy, lose all of them if the drive dies.

    New OS, new disk. Every time.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    That's cool that you do it that way. But why do you care how other people do it? And like... You seem really fucking emotional about it.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 weeks ago

    I'm glad that you have extra income to buy drive per OS to insert into your PC, but there are these things that are called laptops, and sometimes people have them, and sometimes they have quite old ones and non-extensible ones and you get where I'm going with this?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    No one [...] should want

    The moment you've written those words, you've already lost. Because they obviously do want it, and operating systems have supported it for decades, which means it's perfectly reasonable for people to expect it to continue.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 child)

    MacOS doesn’t. Windows doesn’t. The only one that does is Linux, the one that no one in the grand scheme of things wants to use.

    There are multitudes of ways to use Linux on windows machines already. You can’t install windows onto a machine that already has an OS installed no doubt got a multitude of security reasons.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    MacOS doesn’t.

    Anymore.

    Windows doesn’t.

    Anymore.

    The only one that does is Linux, the one that no one in the grand scheme of things wants to use.

    So you think making it harder to use is the right path for greater adoption? Bold strategy.

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