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Daily Linux & Open Source News - S01E161 - Microsoft breaks Linux dual boots

🕑 Added 2024-08-21 08:28:17 +0000 UTC

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Clint Eschberger

Since I rarely log in to my Windows install, I just use uefi and Windows is only accessible when I go into its boot menu.

The Linux Experiment

Completely agree, I bsically never have it enabled, because I use Nvidia GPUs on most of my PCs, and it just doesn't play well with SB anyway

Steve C

I found Secure Boot to be a total pain, when I had it enabled. I think it's just "security theater" that is much more likely to get in the way of users, rather than bad people with bad intentions.

UsernamesAreHard

Haha, glad to hear that my psychological trick worked ;) I think that the only way of making sure that Windows won't mess up your Linux install is to install each os on a separate physical drive and unplug the Linux drive when using windows, but such a solution isn't very convenient.

The Linux Experiment

These transitions definitely need some work, yezh

The Linux Experiment

Hahaha I started reading this being very interested, like « oh nice there’s a way to make Windows unable to affect the MBR / boot loader ». And, eh, well, yes, that’s a solution :D

UsernamesAreHard

There's a pretty nifty trick that can prevent Windows from messing up your Linux bootloader when you get updates: the first step is to create a bootable Linux USB and plug it into your computer like the first time you installed your favourite distro, then the second step is to choose manual partitionning, most live USB have a way to do that easily, then the third step, the most important one, is to select the different Windows partitions and simply delete them and just like that, in three easy steps, you just ensured that Windows won't break your Linux system again by simply removing Windows from your computer :) Jokes aside, it must get old with windows breaking your Linux install on the regular, I've never bothered dual booting, seems like too much stress.

Matt Pierce

One quality of life improvement I'd like to see in Ubuntu/Gnome/lightdm would be if, when you log out, Gnome would fade to black and lightdm would fade in from black. Right now it just immediately halts Gnome, which makes the display freeze, which for one terrifying moment makes it seem like the computer has crashed. If the display MUST freeze too handle the change-over, let that be hidden on a black screen.