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FluffyPotato, (edited ) in unplug your primary ssd

Yea, I ran into this issue a while back when I dual booted Windows for something I don’t remember. I was blissfully ignorant when installing Windows on my system that had been running Linux for a while, got a separate SSD for it and everything. So I selected the empty SSD figuring everything Windows will be installed on it only to discover a month later that after formatting an HDD that I use for media storage that the Windows boot loader is gone…

Manually installing the Windows boot loader is not fun.

mathterdark, in Accurate?

Do you fear god?

Yes: TempleOS

No: Hannah Montana Linux

milkjug,

Blasphemy. Hannah Montana is a god.

MystikIncarnate,

I thought Alanis Morissette was god…

pip1, in unplug your primary ssd

A worrying thing is I think Windows can even muck with (your Linux) bootloader files during updates i e. after you have reconnected your primary ssd.

shalva97, in Repurposing your laptop trans rights style 😎🏳️‍⚧️

I use Arch Linux btw

AdrianTheFrog, in It's OK if you cry
@AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world avatar

Isn’t the main problem that most of them are proprietary, so they can’t be shipped automatically if you want to avoid shipping a distro with proprietary software?

0x4E4F, (edited )

The proprietary stuff is shipped as “firmware” (even though that’s not always the case) allongside the distro’s kernel. My best guess is that some distro out there (Ubuntu most probably) has obtained permission from a bunch of manufacturers to ship this “firmware” allongside it’s kernel. The rest of the distro’s are just riding this train, repackaging the firmware packages (if they can do it and redistribute it, why can’t we 🤷).

I might be mistaken, but this is the only thing that makes sense to me. Maybe it’s a semi-coordinated joint effor as well, like someone obtains permission to share firmware, writes to a bunch of maintainers and devs that “this and this” binary blob is free for redistribution and it gets picked up by most popular distros out there.

librecat, in low effort meme

I honestly don’t think this meme is 85-downvotes bad. The errors are humorous as well IMO.

EmperorHenry, in Accurate?
@EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

There’s ways to make windows private.

Unyieldingly,

just don’t use the internet.

Grass,

You only have to use one of seemingly several methods to make the offline account option appear based on what specific version installer you have, no to Cortana but wait for her subtitles to finish in time with her audio anyway, individually untick every data collection option which each take up the whole screen with the toggle and next button being just far apart enough for it to be annoying plus the slow fade transition, realize you actually need the enterprise edition to set telemetry to 0 using group policy editor which isn’t available otherwise, have a vaguely different installation for that, find out that some functionality isn’t available like Ms store and some other stuff on enterprise which requires PowerShell to add it in if needed. Then possibly some random app to block select domains, with exceptions for the ones that make xbox, the Ms support sites, and ms software not work when disabled if needed. and/or pihole/unbound/Adguard if you have the means of setting it up. Then have random software not work for unknown reasons but you know deep down it’s the non standard installation of windows.

EuroNutellaMan,
@EuroNutellaMan@lemmy.world avatar

or just flash a USB with Mint, reboot from that USB, click install Mint, select erase disk and wait 15 minutes

Grass,

IKR, or pretty much any distro even some of the ‘advanced’ ones with some caveats.

I just had to do up a dual boot with windows for someone who works with people that use a windows only software that currently can’t be wine’d, and was appalled at how awful the install procedure has become since everything after 7 really. The enterprise and not pro features that are actually desirable for privacy minded people that aren’t experts in networking hardware and software was a huge let down too. Well assuming M$ isn’t just blatantly lying about config options anyway.

CaptKoala,

Yes, by removing all internet connectivity and updates.

Yes+: Hulk smash.

pewgar_seemsimandroid, in Accurate?

where mint

Flax_vert,

Green ubuntu

pewgar_seemsimandroid,

what’s Ubuntu?

Flax_vert,

Orange mint

pewgar_seemsimandroid,

im fine with that

EuroNutellaMan, in Accurate?
@EuroNutellaMan@lemmy.world avatar

I’d swap Ubuntu with Mint and Kali with something else tbh but aside from that fairly accurate

MystikIncarnate,

Mint

You mean “green Ubuntu”?

EuroNutellaMan,
@EuroNutellaMan@lemmy.world avatar

Good Ubuntu*

MystikIncarnate,
EuroNutellaMan,
@EuroNutellaMan@lemmy.world avatar

I’d disown that mother. He ain’t treating my boy right.

SkyeHarith,

gr-Ubuntu or Grubuntu.

It’s Ubuntu but you have to reinstall Grub every session

iopq, in usb formatting

You used something called disk destroyer, and you just found out why

kbotc,

Disk Duplicator is a destroyer? Man, I used to image so many drives with DD back in my helpdesk days…

AffineConnection, (edited )

dd does not stand for “disk duplicator”. That’s a modern backronymization that doesn’t reflect the original general usage of the command which is to “convert and copy”. Efficiently (with respect to I/O) copying raw data is only one of its intended purposes; it also converts text encodings.

kbotc,

fine Data Definition.

youpie, in Accurate?
@youpie@lemmy.emphisia.nl avatar

I would say pop os is more for ppl with a life than debian

AnUnusualRelic,
@AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world avatar

Or Open “it just works” SuSE.

backhdlp, in usb formatting
@backhdlp@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Fun fact: you can use cat image.iso > /dev/device and it (should) just works.

ExLisper,

Sure, if you’re a little bitch.

mumblerfish,

Yay, more ways to (accidentally) destroy my data!

PoolloverNathan,

Or pv if you want a progress bar.

AffineConnection, (edited )

Assuming /dev/device is not a symbolic link, you might as well


<span style="color:#323232;">cp image.iso /dev/device
</span>
gunpachi, in usb formatting

I always use the status=progress argument.

ook_the_librarian,
@ook_the_librarian@lemmy.world avatar

That ain’t why that light isn’t blinking.

uis,
@uis@lemmy.world avatar

Because this USB stick doesn’t have light

Dasnap, in usb formatting
@Dasnap@lemmy.world avatar

Your USB is probably named ‘/’ or ‘~’ so give that a go.

rottingleaf, in Accurate?

I don’t see Gentoo, Slackware and Void there. Also Arch is an irrelevant distribution among us folks without life. It should be on the left, maybe after the “are you trying to look like a hackerman” question.

platypus_plumba, (edited )

“Is compiling packages for days your favorite activity?” -> Gentoo

“Do you believe an OS can turn you into a hacker?” -> Kali

rottingleaf,

Yes, if not that, I’d probably use it. Everything is very nice except for that need to plan for installing software.

Kali - well, I’ve actually met one such person and he later stopped being stupid and got into something hardware-related. I’ve been a person believing that Gentoo or Slackware can turn one into a good sysadmin for a few years.

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