I did dual booting for a month just to make sure there wasn’t a single use case for windows left. Not ONE use case for me.
If you don’t respect the bootloader, you don’t get a seat at the table.
A pivotal moment in my life was when I first installed Linux to the entire hard disk instead of a separate partition.
I was setting up some template VMs on a fresh Proxmox VE (VM server) yesterday. Total install and troubleshooting times for each template were as follows;
- Linux Mint Debian Edition - 20 minutes
- Windows 10 IOT LTSC - 3 hours
- Windows 11 IOT LTSV - 6 hours, with the benefit of lessons learned from the Win 10 install.
The amount of obscure configs I had to dig up just to get them going was disgusting. Also, why the fuck are so many drivers not in Win10/11 by default, yet Linux has no issue including them all at a fraction of the ISO size?
I believe it’s due to kernel philosophy.
Linux and Mac are a monolithic kernel, which I understand to mean that the entire OS runs in kernel space to operate the compatible hardware. This has the advantage of making sure the OS is in the drivers seat for resource management, and no individual program is easily able to overload the system and create instability, but it may limit the power of some programs and delay compatability of new hardware and software.
Windows, on the other hand, is a hybrid kernel, which means some functions are managed in user space so that a program has more control over the hardware. This can be useful for pushing gaming to the limit or running experimental/custom programs, but it can lead to instability from resource hungry programs or security vulnerabilities from Trojan horses.
As for why their ISO is huge, I s’pose it’s due to all the extra crap they throw in there like AI, pinball, and data collection stuff.
Apologies if I got something fundamentally wrong—there are plenty of bigger nerds than me on here—but that’s my best attempt at explaining the difference as well as I know it.
Didn’t they remove pinball from Windows?
Well you see, if there are less drivers included there is more room for user friendly features, such as persistent ai intrusion. You probably also gonna update them anyway, might as well download fresh 😇
I did dual booting for a long time, because ✨ proprietary drivers ✨ , To this day I can’t use my wifi (there’s no patch for now) or bluetooth, but it’s acceptable price for not being under microsoft’s feet
For the noobs to Linux, heed the words of your endlers: don’t dual boot. The operating systems have a way of killing each other’s bootloaders. It might even run fine for a while, but then one day there will be an update and one OS will be unbootable. Not worth the risk as a noob. If you’re really worried you might need a Windows program, then just run a Windows VM within Linux. If you want to keep the option for gaming, then you could dual boot, but don’t do it on a work critical machine.
Dual boot is fine, you just need to choose some good options.
Method 1: Most recommended. use Refined as your boot loader and two drives, not partitions. This is the easiest, safest, and frankly nicest way to deal with this. At boot, before either system starts you get a nice graphical interface to choose which OS to go into.
Method 2: Partition style. Disable window fast startup. Disable windows hibernation (never hibernate windows before going into linux). Use UEFI and GPT no legacy methods. Don’t encrpyt windows with bitlocker.
That said, my desktop and traveling laptop have been windows free for years, I have no need for it, and your advice is the safest way overall. A vm in linux with virtualmanager works very well.
“But I need…” No you don’t. Commit and learn a new way to do the thing you swear you need Windows for.
How do I run my WMR kit on Linux to play modded Beat Saber? I can mod beat saber on Linux but I prefer to sweat in my WMR kit instead of my expensive Index.
I set up dual boot just in case, but I can’t remember the last time I even booted Windows. When I get a chance I’ll probably just nuke it.
My VR set up simply will not work in Linux yet, or at least not correctly. Once that’s fixed I’ll nuke my windows part
Yeah I’d done the same a while back just to play D2 (fucking Battle Eye), but found I just never booted into it and said fuck it I’ll live w/o games that have incompatible anti cheat.
i think it’s in fact possible to install windows on btrfs or linux on ntfs… and have them on one partition.
Both of these sound like terrible ideas
they are indeed lmao
Ew…
I forgot I even had a Windows partition…
And that was the moment Padme chose violence
My first ever Linux install, I just went for it. I backed up my media, played around in the live environment for 5 minutes or so, then I wiped the drive and installed. No dual boot, no VM, just bare metal. That was 10 years ago, and I have never looked back.
I have Win10 IOT installed in VirtualBox, but I haven’t booted it in almost a year. I don’t have any use for it, that Linux can’t handle.
I got curious last week with how windows is now and decided to just spin up a copy on an extra 250gb ssd I had. I had a windows 11 usb stick so I just installed it. big mistake. during the MANY updates post install it decided to “upgrade” the bios on my thinkpad and now the volume controls (up, down, mute) are “backwards”. I had to go into the bios to set the F1 thru 12 keys to enable without the use of the FN key to be able to use the FN key with them. it’s so stupid.
Also thank god when I installed windows I used a throw away email to setup the account because it immediately got spammed with microsoft emails.
Never again.
Ok thats funny
