• rabidhamster@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    46·
    7 days ago

    I built a computer in 2012 with the idea of having 3 OSes to boot from: Windows 7, Mac OS 10.7 (hackintosh), and CentOS.

    I partition the drive into three main parts, and install each OS on one each. Except that I had to do it again, because Windows 7 lost its absolute shit that it wasn’t on the first partition. Just threw an absolute shit-fit that it didn’t come first.

    So I re-do the installations, let Windows be first in the partition order, Mac OS second, CentOS third. The next problem was that I couldn’t download any drivers on Windows, because it couldn’t recognize the absolutely bog-standard network controller on my motherboard. So I boot into Mac OS X, which (with a couple of quick kext edits) already recognized all of the hardware on the mobo despite none of it being Apple or Apple related, download the drivers for windows, throw them on a FAT partition I set up to exchange data between the OSes, and finally get Windows running in about 4x the time it took to get Mac OS running on the exact same built-for-windows hardware I’d cobbled together.

    And of course I fire up CentOS, and it was pretty much, “I got this” right off the bat.

    I’ve been using Windows and Mac OS since the late 80s, and linux since about 1999, and I still have never encountered a more fussy OS than Windows.

  • tackleberry@thelemmy.club
    12·
    6 days ago

    this is why we don’t dual-boot with Windows anymore. Linux only. No computing device in my household runs on any version of Windows

  • collapse_already@lemmy.mlEnglish
    14·
    7 days ago

    Maybe we should speak to them in a language they actually speak. In this case, I am thinking the proper language is class action lawsuit.

  • NominatedNemesis@reddthat.com
    5·
    6 days ago

    I went nuclear, when gaming was still hit or miss (only wine existed) since I only installed windows to update my BIOS. I advise to use a separate harddrive and do not do as I did: Used gparted to separate space for windows in my data drive, installed, updated the BIOS, used gparted to recover my initial state. I was sweating the whole time, but all of my data was intact.

  • MehBlah@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    6 days ago

    I haven’t had this problem. I use two hard drives and when I boot windows I boot it off the drive its installed to.

  • Zink@programming.dev
    3·
    6 days ago

    My Windows partition at work went unused for several months before I wiped it.

    At home it took about two weeks before I reclaimed that space!

    • chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      1·
      6 days ago

      Part of what got me off my ass to actually switch to Linux is that my Windows partition is on a 120gb drive. I don’t need to claim it, my games are on 2 2tb drives that are Linux based, and 1 1tb shared drive that I mostly use just 1 of the games on, plus a basic “other” drive. I haven’t been back in Windows for months, but I haven’t confirmed all my games work in Linux yet.

      Biggest priority is getting all the hotas buttons working for Elite.

  • nil@piefed.caEnglish
    4·
    7 days ago

    Dual booting may be a bad idea. You should run MAS-activated Windows in a VM.

  • carpelbridgesyndrome@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    6 days ago

    I haven’t had this problem since the early years of Windows 10 and that was because I was still on GPT+CSM boot. I ran the 10 to 11 upgrade blind and it just worked without torching my Linux install. As annoying as UEFI is it fixed most of the OS clash issues

  • MoffKalast@lemmy.world
    2·
    6 days ago

    It’s really funny when you have grub configured with linux as the default. Then when you select windows it’s 50% chance it’ll update something and reboot, booting you back to linux lmao. I guess they don’t really want me to use it.

    • titanicx@lemmy.zip
      2·
      6 days ago

      I mean honestly you should be updating your Linux partition as well probably much more often than you already are. It’s not the windows has more updates their updates are just automated whereas you have to actually trigger mostly updates on Linux.