It really feels like no matter what community you look at on Lemmy, every 3rd post is Windows bad Linux good. It’s honestly a bit exhausting. And I’ve been running Linux for over a decade…
Ok but this one is funi
For real lol makes me feel a little alienated. I just want to play games on my computer
Sadly, you should feel alienated. When you choose to use proprietary software, you further the injustice that it creates over society. Windows is so shamefully harmful, even outside of just being proprietary that choosing it in 2024 is choosing the side of unjust power, and you should be rightfully alienated for making that decision.
Hardest I’ve ever rolled my eyes
This is how the Internet was back in the 90s
I swear, it’s no longer possible to distinguish satire from reality.
It does sound like something they would do.
If you have a hard time telling this is satire, you might just be a bit dim.
Never mind that, Windows 10 did an update a couple of days ago, and now my dual boot screen has gone. I literally can’t start my Linux Mint anymore, it boots straight to Windows :(
There is a way to get it back with the command line, but my computer nerd days are over.
https://askubuntu.com/questions/911963/dual-boot-with-windows-10-broken-after-update
I’m assuming that command needs to be edited to whatever my setup is, I have no idea.
Windows might have changed the boot order in your bios, so just go into your bios and check if the mint partition is set to boot first
Yeah with EFI the days of Windows completely overwriting your Linux bootloader are mostly over.
I have no idea how to do this, but I’ll keep looking for a tutorial. Luckily I only use my Linux for storing my music. I wish I could have got my art software to work on Linux, they just don’t seem to want to cooperate. My WiFi adaptor also only wants to work about half the time, too.
Just spam del or f2 keys when you are turning your PC on (or check your motherboards/laptops manual for which key it is) that should put you into your bios and there check the boot options/order.
Tho you can also enter the bios through windows, can just search windows 10 enter bios and that should give you the answers
I found an old picture of what my boot screen used to look like. If I wanted to do it via bcedit, what would my command line be? Sorry for being so clueless, I’m just really scared I’ll brick my PC completely.
Before you mess with commands I suggest you to do what I mentioned before. The picture you sent has the grub bootloader and assuming windows didn’t nuke it, when you choose your Linux drive to boot first it should come back.
Also changing the boot order will not break your pc
spam del or f2 keys
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.If you find yourself doing this a lot, and are okay with attending every reboot, some BIOS’ can be configured to just always boot to the BIOS menu. Also, there’s sometimes a configurable time-frame for when it listens for keystrokes.
Disclaimer: I have 30 years of doing battle with PC’s that I’m sifting through here, so some of that’s bound to be old advice.
This is what can happen dual booting from the same drive. If the windows bootloader updates it can override grub.
Usually you can still boot to the Linux partition from the efi menu manually. Then you can find dozens of guides to reinstall grub to fix this.
But it’s likely to keep happening. Best dual boot setup is to have a second drive dedicated to non windows.
My Linux is on a separate hard drive.
I’m glad this wasn’t posted like 3 weeks ago when my laptop battery died on me. otherwise I woulda thought this was legit happening
And it’s your fault if it happens to you, because we sent you EMAILS telling you it was going to happen!
Lol, SCSI
You’ve got to give Microsoft credit for their dedication to backwards compatibility.
but my DVI monitor doesn’t get the love SCSI does 😔 what a society we live in…
Fedora 40 is also a nice intro distro, can attest to that
Haven’t given Linux a proper chance on my desktop on a few years, till windows 11 finally became too frustrating. Aside from a very short headache with my nvidia drivers, fedora has been absolutely flawless and much less of a pain in my aSs than windows…
Is that actually possible? I don’t know how much privilege an operating system has. I would think if would need to go deeper
i mean an os could definitely overvolt the gpu, that’s how users do it
Pretty sure the gpu BIOS is limited by default, nothing the OS can do about that.
Same for other parts like the cpu - core voltage is determined by the motherboard.
I doubt the os can just go “2V vcore” and blow up hardware.
Yeah you definitely can’t easily kill it, only shorten its lifespan
Yeah there’s quite a bit of safety mechanisms in place but I imagine windows could just adjust all the gpu overclocking settings to the max and make the system unstable. Plus just reformat all of your drives
What client is that?
How do you downvote a post in Lemmy?
Our accounts are on lemmy.blahaj.zone, which doesn’t support downvoting. We can’t downvote or be downvoted. I know other instances do this as well.
You can definitely be downvoted… @sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone’s comment is showing -3 points as of this writing.
Cool! It shows as positive 3 to me. Interesting!
Your instance doesn’t support down voting.