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- Aniki 🌱🌿 ( @aniki@lemmy.zip ) English33•27 days ago
Waiting for the MS apologists to say this is a Crowdstrike problem or some other fucking dumbass shit.
Microsoft by and large are just computational cancer at this point. Bloat, crud, fud, and junk.
- BatmanAoD ( @BatmanAoD@programming.dev ) 5•27 days ago
The Crowdstrike problem was in fact a Crowdstrike problem. It affected Linux too, but of course there are vastly fewer users of Crowdstrike on Linux: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theregister.com/AMP/2024/07/21/crowdstrike_linux_crashes_restoration_tools/
This is pretty obviously a Microsoft problem.
- cRazi_man ( @cRazi_man@lemm.ee ) 26•27 days ago
I stopped trying to dual boot entirely with all the problems it caused me. I’m surprised the community universally seems to recommend dual booting as an easy to setup option for beginners.
- NuXCOM_90Percent ( @NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ) 14•27 days ago
Yup
This is shit. But dual booting (on the same drive) has not been viable for decades. It inevitably becomes a mess. Just have windows on one drive and Linux on another if you can’t fully switch to Linux.
- taaz ( @taaz@biglemmowski.win ) English5•27 days ago
Optimally we wouldn’t I think but it usually boils down to being the lesser evil.
- Elise ( @xilliah@beehaw.org ) 4•27 days ago
Never had an issue with it myself
- melroy ( @melroy@kbin.melroy.org ) 6•27 days ago
“works on my machine”
- ѕєχυαℓ ρσℓутσρє ( @SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org ) 4•27 days ago
Yeah, dual booting on a single drive causes more harm than good. It’s very annoying, and I’ve seen people think it’s Linux’s fault, saying “I can boot into Windows just fine.” It’s like saying a bully is the better kid since he never has dirty clothes.
- melroy ( @melroy@kbin.melroy.org ) 17•27 days ago
Best solution is to format the C:\ drive and never touch any Microsoft product again. That is what I did 10 years ago.
- GarlicToast ( @GarlicToast@programming.dev ) 5•26 days ago
The newly freed 40+GB are a nice bonus.
- melroy ( @melroy@kbin.melroy.org ) 2•25 days ago
You also got rid of a lot of malware as a bonus. And your PC boots a lot faster now as well.
- UndercoverUlrikHD ( @UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev ) 17•27 days ago
Cost me a few hours and ended up just disabling secure boot in the end. Wish I didn’t need MS for some programs.
- Senseless ( @Senseless@feddit.org ) 5•27 days ago
Can’t you run them in a VM?
- UndercoverUlrikHD ( @UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev ) 8•27 days ago
I did try that years ago, ran into performance issues and other bugs, and it wasn’t worth messing around with when dual booting is so simple. Might reconsider in the future if MS keeps messing up though.
- Telorand ( @Telorand@reddthat.com ) 8•27 days ago
I think somebody posted a guide about passing GPU function from the host to a guest VM (for example) with
vfio
, so it’s certainly possible to get a more bare-metal experience!
- Mispasted ( @Mispasted@beehaw.org ) 1•25 days ago
Just curious, what programs? I’m obsessed with only using FOSS, maybe I can give you some alternatives.
- alex ( @alex@programming.dev ) 1•25 days ago
For me I have to keep a Windows VM around to run payroll software once a month. There is a Linux version of the software but it depends on some ancient glibc, IIRC. It takes up around 50GB of my NVMe, which I’d move it off of if it didn’t already take around 15 minutes for this app to finish loading. All around it is very annoying. The one upside is that while this app is loading it has this ugly always-on-top logo for HMRC but because it’s in a VM now I don’t have to see it.
- UndercoverUlrikHD ( @UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev ) 1•22 days ago
It’s been a mix throughout the years. The initial problem software years ago was Adobe Illustrator and InDesign, but since then it’s been various engineering/programming related software that only supports Windows. I’m primarily on Linux at this point on my laptop.
- SaharaMaleikuhm ( @SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org ) 4•27 days ago
I’ve got secure boot disabled so I’m good.