CrayonRosary,

Is her wall made out of glass?

TimeSquirrel, (edited )
@TimeSquirrel@kbin.social avatar

'Murican walls. Made of paper, glue, and chalk.

kSPvhmTOlwvMd7Y7E,

Can’t click on Windows, if have no Windows 😏

LainOfTheWired,
@LainOfTheWired@lemy.lol avatar

You guys have windows partitions?

cyanarchy,

Not on bare metal, for this reason

0x4E4F,
@0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works avatar

Need for interacting with hardware, so yeah, have it on bare metal, plus in a VM.

herrvogel,

Any reason you can’t just pass the hardware through to the vm?

0x4E4F, (edited )
@0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works avatar

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.

acockworkorange,

Always use a condom to interface your bare metal and windows.

Shady_Shiroe,
@Shady_Shiroe@lemmy.world avatar

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,
@0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works avatar

Yep, pretty much the same reason, just have to use it, mostly because of software that interacts with hardware, in one way or another.

Batbro,

USB cables require drivers? 👀

Shady_Shiroe,
@Shady_Shiroe@lemmy.world avatar

Well USB to serial port to some weird custom 6 pin connector for a certain machine.

Or car data link adapter

SorryQuick,

The ports do, it’s just that they’re built in every kernel nowadays.

Jack3G,
@Jack3G@sh.itjust.works avatar

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.

exoplanetary,
@exoplanetary@lemmy.world avatar

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.

user224,
@user224@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

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…

trackcharlie,

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,
@pewpew@feddit.it avatar

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

trackcharlie,

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,

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

iwan2c,

same thing happens to me but with temple os

Treczoks,

No issue here. If I make a mistake in grub, I end up in memtest.

youngGoku,

First mistake was having windows installed lol.

tuxrandom,

The same applies for the other way around when I need Windows for something.

I apparently magically attract computers with a horribly slow UEFI so it takes a while to reboot regardless of the OS.

0x4E4F, (edited )
@0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works avatar

If it takes too long to load the EFI binaries, that might be BIOS setup issue. Have you tried other filesystems except FAT32 for the EFI partition? I’ve had luck with just FAT (FAT16) on some rigs that just refused to read FAT32 (still don’t know why).

Also, make sure the drives are in AHCI mode. Though this is mostly the default nowadays, I’ve seen weird BIOSes that defaulted to IDE mode.

TimeSquirrel,
@TimeSquirrel@kbin.social avatar

What Windows? I got Debian, and some shit that tests my memory.

Asudox, (edited )
@Asudox@lemmy.world avatar

Your memory or your computer’s memory? Huge difference.

user224,
@user224@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

“I forgot”

0x4E4F,
@0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works avatar

Doesn’t seem to work…

DavidGarcia,

lmao imagine not using MINIX as your main OS

palordrolap,

People with newer Intel CPUs are way ahead of you. Even if they'd really rather not be.

DavidGarcia,

lmao

cmgvd3lw,

Quick hard shutdown.

grue,

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

desmosthenes,
@desmosthenes@lemmy.world avatar

you don’t have it default to linux…?

0x4E4F,
@0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works avatar

I do, but I sometimes need Windows and I get confused when rebooting “was I supposed to use Windows or Linux now 🤔”.

desmosthenes,
@desmosthenes@lemmy.world avatar

lol happens to me too ><

0x4E4F,
@0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works avatar

The struggle is real 😂.

HouseWolf,

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.

callyral,
@callyral@pawb.social avatar

remove windows if you’re not using it

0x4E4F,
@0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works avatar

Use Windows Update Blocker to block them.

tuxrandom,

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.

sorrybookbroke,

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

MindSkipperBro12,

Just accept the winning side.

BoastfulDaedra,

So, mind-skipper in that you forgot to pick one up when they were being handed out?

hikikoma,

This is bait right? It HAS to be…surely.

MindSkipperBro12,

No. I am not joking.

hikikoma,

You are the whole joke I’m afraid.

MindSkipperBro12, (edited )

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/0eea2e84-75bc-4cd9-9189-cd1d28cb991a.jpeg

This is for you, good sir.

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