stolen from linux memes at Deltachat
I haven’t booted Windows since February and at this point I’m afraid to.
Be afraid, be very afraid.
It’s probably very broken.
If you haven’t used Windows in that long you might as well just get rid of it.
Unfortunately not possible for me. I daily Arch (btw) and hadn’t booted into Windows for months and months until my university professor came along and said “btw, we’re gonna build GUIs using Microsoft Foundation Classes in Visual Studio now, and yes, you have to use Visual Studio on Windows in the exam”. So nope, not uninstalling Windows.
Sounds like prime time for a virtual machine to me!
I was wondering if you can do BIOS updates through wine (because obviously they only are supplied as .exes) but it doesn’t sound like something I’d like to try …
Aren’t BIOS updates usually done by putting the update file on a flash drive and installing it from the BIOS? I’ve never heard of updating BIOS from Windows with an executable.
Yesterday after a reboot windows added a fucking bing search bar in the middle of my desktop.
You can “click” in GRUB?
They’re talking about the Debian installer.
you click the enter key…
Stop talkimg about your ex, Cartman.
Simple fix here. Just get rid of your Windows partition.
I did this on my new laptop. feels_good_man.png
Welcome and enjoy!
I have a single windows 11 system while everything else is on some form of Linux distro.
That windows system has never been connected to the internet, and it has been great without ever causing any of the typical update issues (although I update applications/components manually over an isolated NAS link).
It’s sad to see that everyday users have gotten habituated to these constant workflow braking updates. No wonder many people I know are jumping to the Apple ecosystem after getting a taste with a M2.
people who insist on using windows should just run it in a VM, it has suprisingly low overhead these days, you can even game with it if you insist, but i’m hearing wine/proton is getting good enough that it doesn’t even matter
Youre entirely correct about proton unless your kid wants to play fortnite
Literally the only reason I haven’t switched to a Linux distro. I hate anti cheats so much.
To date I have not found any degree of enjoyment in any games with a windows only anti-cheat.
windows’ ram overhead is insane though, it’s not like I can’t run it but I wouldn’t want to daily drive it
You’re still stuck when it comes to anti-cheat in multiplayer games. Some do allow it to work on Linux, but a significant number don’t. Hopefully the tides slowly start to change thanks to the Steam Deck.
I mean I do that currently and it is okay, but file transfer is still not working. The rest is, and I think it even was pretty much ootb, but the SPICE drivers are a real hassle to get installed, while it could be a one click solution?
(This “insert spice CD” thing has no option to download the driver ISO, right?)
Also windows11 is a bit bloated. Bulk crap uninstaller and ChrisTituses Winutil really help making it less fancy but more performant, or just usable.
But yes, VM is way better than hardware. If your Laptop supports that.
At that point, wipe out windows, expand your partition and reinstall grub
Hello
But I can’t change the taskbar size
This is actually crazy, its too big
Happened to me just yesterday.
Wife: what are you doing? Me: pushing the hard reset button. Wife: it’s not possible. Windows started booting up! Me: No, it’s necessary.
I mean, if it was accidental then… Just turn it off and boot back into Linux? You realise you can just turn it off while it’s downloading updates, right? Heck, you can even pause updates long term if you want! 😱 Crazy!
If you’re going that way, Windows is not going to suddenly start updating when you simply boot it. You have to willingly click “Update and Shutdown/Restart” instead of “Shutdown/Restart”, assuming your computer even finished downloading the update.
Wait, you guys can click in grub?
Wouldn’t be shock for me if it existed. You can definitely do that in rEFInd though
In the Windows community I’m guessing the top message would say:
When you install Linux but didn’t realize a dozen locales were preselected
“I keep having packages that are not updated when I run apt update; apt upgrade - no matter how many times I type it!!1!”
OSHA would say having a Windows install is a potential hazard because it can become dangerous if activated. To remedy, you must remove the hazard.
Safety is no accident.
I have a laptop still with Windows 10. I got it from my late sister about 4 years ago, booted it up, went and installed Ubuntu (18.04 at the time), and never touched Windows again.
I later read somewhere that W10 was forcibly upgrading itself to W11, so I’m afraid to even boot into it. Should probably take some time to copy everything important over and finally nuke it.
For reference, I’ve been using Linux since around 2012.
It doesn’t forcibly update, but it asks in a fullscreen window that looks as if the update started. Just click no thanks/cancel and it will continue to show the desktop. The window returns sometimes, but not always.
