Microsoft destroyed my online life after I called home to Gaza
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Palestinians calling home to Gaza on Skype are being blocked and banned from using Microsoft products.
  • grazing7264 [they/them, comrade/them]
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    6 months ago

    I think Windows intentionally breaks GRUB dual boot, if you see your computer saying "repairing Windows" it's a good chance that it's breaking your dual boot setup

    They definitely succeed because it made me stop using Linux for a long time, I didn't have time to fix it and didn't know how. It happened multiple times.

    Now I exclusively use Linux out of spite

    • communism@lemmy.ml
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      6 months ago

      I don't think it does that if you have Linux on a completely separate drive instead of just a separate partition, but I'm not sure. In any case the solution is just to reinstall grub. Grab a live usb of some linux distro, chroot into your linux install, then grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/path/to/efi/dir --bootloader-id=GRUB (on uefi, if on bios do whatever the command is for bios, and replace the target architecture with whatever your architecture is, etc)

      • Beetle_O_Rourke
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        6 months ago

        I don't think it does that if you have Linux on a completely separate drive instead of just a separate partition

        I've had it nuke GRUB on a seperate dualboot nvme, that was the catalyst for becoming fulltime linux for me.

    • tactical_trans_karen [she/her, comrade/them]
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      6 months ago

      Same! But also compatability with plug and play things, proprietary software, learning command lines and file structure, fixing things... I make a living at my computer so I need it to work. I know it's more stable, but getting everything set up first for me in the past was too much.

    • imogen_underscore [it/its, she/her]
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      6 months ago

      i've never had it bork bootloader when the drives are separate. to be safe you could just hard disable windows update, EOL is next year anyway lol

    • sexywheat [none/use name]
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      6 months ago

      Yeah I stopped dual booting after my master boot record just fucked off and disappeared for the third time. I just use separate rigs now.

      • Chronicon [they/them]
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        6 months ago

        I switched to only booting the windows drive directly from BIOS boot menu, linux drive as default. I never boot up the windows partition tbh, it was only there for VR and I lost interest in that pretty early