stolen from linux memes at Deltachat

      • Morphior@feddit.de
        29·
        1 year ago

        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.

      • jlow (he/him)@beehaw.org
        2·
        1 year ago

        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 …

        • LostXOR@kbin.social
          3·
          1 year ago

          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.

          • RandomChain@lemm.ee
            1·
            1 year ago

            Yeah, some vendors do this, I think the .exe basically unpacks the .bin file then calls some API or something to push it from Windows while it’s running. Probably done for the sake of more casual users who don’t know/want to mess with the actual BIOS UI.

    • Rusty@lemmy.caEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      Yesterday after a reboot windows added a fucking bing search bar in the middle of my desktop.

  • down daemon@lemmy.mlEnglish
    312·
    1 year ago

    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

        • Grass@sh.itjust.works
          131·
          1 year ago

          To date I have not found any degree of enjoyment in any games with a windows only anti-cheat.

          • miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml
            4·
            1 year ago

            I was going to say Siege, but they removed the ability to play as a team of exclusively shield recruits, I’ve heard.

            • ferret@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              2·
              1 year ago

              Siege is honestly awful these days (not complaining about the sci-fi ops, reality is lame as shit why not spruce it up a bit) but what they have done to the UI and the queues (bring unranked back please) is honestly unforgivable and makes the game hard to play. (It isn’t all bad, but more bad than good)

    • moon_matter@kbin.social
      8·
      1 year ago

      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.

    • Jumuta@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      1 year ago

      windows’ ram overhead is insane though, it’s not like I can’t run it but I wouldn’t want to daily drive it

    • Pantherina@feddit.deOP
      1·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • flashgnash@lemm.ee
        1·
        1 year ago

        There is an ISO somewhere, I always struggle to find it

        After that you can just download from within the VM, mount from within windows and run the installer exe

    • phorq@lemmy.ml
      3·
      1 year ago

      I need to overwrite windows because currently I’m just considering my laptop unusable until I bother to fix grub after that…

    • Jaxseven@beehaw.org
      2·
      1 year ago

      Oh my god, this truly was one of the biggest reasons I didn’t use Linux in college. After I built a rig with two SSDs, it felt so much easier to get into Linux.

    • TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml
      86·
      1 year ago

      The only SUCCESSFUL AND RELIABLE way I found to prevent Windows 10 from doing this shit was to remove the HDD from my ThinkPad on which I have Linux, then install Windows on SSD, then put back Linux HDD, then in BIOS deprioritise booting SSD, so I can only manually select and boot SSD/Windows when I really want to use it.

      This approach means there is only 1 existing OS on my machine – Linux (Debian) – unless I quick select different boot device. There is nothing that can defeat this approach, and is the best one.

      • ferret@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        There is one better way, telling your linux bootloader where the windows install is so you don’t have to go to bios when you want to boot windows

  • Xavier@lemmy.ca
    191·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • Pantherina@feddit.deOP
      1·
      1 year ago

      I mean… having updates that suck is not a good solution but for sure do every update please.

      Its just excrutiatingly slow, like 5min one time where Fedora Kinoite is more stable, doesnt fuck up other partitions and goes in the background while using the system!

      Android (GrapheneOS) is even better with updates in the background and very low CPU usage, one reboot and you are there.

      Or just regular mutable Linux distros seperating packages that dont need a reboot from packages that do.

  • blind3rdeye@lemm.ee
    12·
    1 year ago

    Too real. I booted up windows last week because I wanted to test something quickly before going to bed… starting it and testing my thing took about 5 mins; but then shutting down took more than half an hour.

  • wulrus@programming.dev
    11·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • lntl@lemmy.ml
    9·
    1 year ago

    OSHA would say having a Windows install a potential hazard because it can become dangerous if activated. To remedy, you must remove the hazard.

    Safety is no accident.

  • RandomVideos@programming.dev
    9·
    1 year ago

    One time i opened windows to change a setting on my mouse that had windows only software

    The app didnt boot so i tried to restary windows. It decided to update, froze in the middle of the update, and broke

    After then everytime i tried to open windows it would send me back to the gnu grub screen

    • bingbong@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      5·
      1 year ago

      After then everytime i tried to open windows it would send me back to the gnu grub screen

      Sounds like it did you a favor

    • EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de
      5·
      1 year ago

      You can delay all other updates with the group policy editor. You can disable preview builds and you and delay quality updates by 30 days and delay feature updates by 365 days. The bugs are always worked out by then.

      • Holzkohlen@feddit.de
        3·
        1 year ago

        OR they could stop shipping broken updates for their $100 ad-infested operating system. Just a a thought.

      • authed@lemmy.ml
        01·
        1 year ago

        thats good but Im also worried about the useless changes that they make… so after 365 days I would start getting constant useless updates anyways

        • EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de
          3·
          1 year ago

          Feature updates are necessary after a while. There’s SOME important stuff in there. And if you wait a whole year before installing the new one, all the bugs will be fixed by then