Imagine having Windows installed in 2024. /s
Most people are tech illiterate. Ask them anything but to use a pre installed system or pop in a CD that was given to them (No they can’t burn one themselves) and they’ll fail
With all the UI changes on every version in the last few years that simply isn’t true. Windows is becoming harder and harder to use even if you know what you are doing, much less if you don’t know half the computer related terminology.
Just hold the power button until it gets quiet.
… shush, don’t fight it, it will be over soon.
I know, I know… we were just not meant to be, sorry…
I always imagine this when hard rebooting any device
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Oh yeah, deleting partition tables always felt a bit like (mini) scorched earth past-denying genocide. Gone but not forgotten. But also mostly forgotten. Nevertheless you legacy will live onwards through volume labels that I always use.
Takes gazillion years to boot
You guys have windows partitions?
Not on bare metal, for this reason
Always use a condom to interface your bare metal and windows.
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…
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.
You use your mouse for GRUB?
You can quite easily set grub to remember the last picked option
That is not the problem. It’s whether I wanted to pick Windows or Linux in this reboot that’s the issue.
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Ah old days… I used to boot into Windows 10 just for gaming but when Valve’s Proton matured to the point that all my games could work on Linux I very happily nuked it out of existence. But yeah if someone plays Fortnite or needs Adobe products then you still can’t do much unfortunately.
Only problem is gamepass
I only played via Steam so I wouldn’t know. I hear it’s a good deal, but I’ve made it a point to not accept such good deals from BigTech. Have gotten screwed over too many times. Remember when Google Photos allowed unlimited storage?
Then piracy it will be. For now it’s more convenient than piracy.
I don’t do either, but I still need Windows. Some software just needs native communication with hardware devices and wine is still not there yet.
That’s what virtualization is for.
Doesn’t that trip anticheats?
You can’t have native SATA support with virtualization… at least not that I’m aware of… and I need that.
Just pray to God you didn’t pick “Windows Boot Repair” or you’re going to spend a while recovering your partition labels…
Not an issue, I still use MBR boot.
I hear you.
The first time WBR killed my partition labels, it was before I could even properly restart. I removed the GRUB entry after that mess, once I repaired their labeling; but at least at the time, it would come back after every GRUB update. Later I just moved Windows to its own hard drive and left it there.
Now I don’t even feel the need to bother with it at all.
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.
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
That just doesn’t happen to me.
I use rEFInd.
That also doesn’t happen to me.
The last time I had Windows installed anywhere was around 15 years ago.
What is this “Windows” thou speakest of? I use grub just to experiment with kernel options and select different kernels without writing too often to the efi eeprom
Ahh it’s the Java laptop.
Does grub even support mouse? Wouldn’t you have to arrow down to it and hit enter?
no and yes
Quick hard shutdown.
