Why does my pc have a heart attack everytime this bloatware updates? Then it takes forever to load once I shutdown and restart. Thanks Bill Gate$ (satan).

  • itappearsthat
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    6 months ago

    Addressed in sister comment. This is authentically terrible advice.

    • Abracadaniel [he/him]
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      6 months ago

      If you separately install each OS to a separate drive (no dual booting) then it works fine, there's no mixing of boot entries or partitions. Just use manual boot override on your motherboard to select the other if you want to switch to the other OS.

      • itappearsthat
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        6 months ago

        Memory is hazy since this was three years ago but I remember windows not handling/liking multiple EFI partitions. Perhaps that has changed, or the disk order matters or something.

        Like there's this article: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-client/windows-security/cannot-boot-windows-on-primary-hard-disk-uefi

        You may also encounter this issue if a second hard drive is added that has a pre-existing EFI partition and bootable OS on it as well. Because of differences in hardware and firmware boot options, it's unknown which Windows OS will be set as the primary boot disk.

        • sawne128 [he/him]
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          6 months ago

          I dual boot Ubuntu with Windows 10 on a second drive since 2-3 years, but I don't understand why it works then. I only have one EFI partition (whatever that is) though, on my Linux drive, and I can boot from either drive just fine.

    • RION [she/her]
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      6 months ago

      i never had any issues and from cursory googling people talk about a few warts with the process but nothing close to it being terrible

      • itappearsthat
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        6 months ago

        "works for me" -> you are sentenced to answering three linux newbie/debug questions online