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I haven't booted Windows since February and at this point I'm afraid to.
this post was submitted on 22 Nov 2023
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Be afraid, be very afraid.
Yesterday after a reboot windows added a fucking bing search bar in the middle of my desktop.
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Stop talkimg about your ex, Cartman.
One time i opened windows to change a setting on my mouse that had windows only software
The app didnt boot so i tried to restary windows. It decided to update, froze in the middle of the update, and broke
After then everytime i tried to open windows it would send me back to the gnu grub screen
I had the opposite problem, I had my mouse all nicely configured just how I wanted it using Piper on linux, then booted windows to test something unrelated (which if I remember correctly didn't even have the logitech software installed) and it somehow instantly reset my mouse to factory defaults. I decided whatever I was trying to do wasn't worth the effort and have not had windows installed on my main computer since
After then everytime i tried to open windows it would send me back to the gnu grub screen
Sounds like it did you a favor
windows updating the UI/UX with every new OS kills me. Wheres the 'fuck off' option when it asks for me to set up my personalization options and info?
I just wish they would literally and continued supporting Win 7. Everything after is just subpar from a usability perspective imo.
I have a single windows 11 system while everything else is on some form of Linux distro.
That windows system has never been connected to the internet, and it has been great without ever causing any of the typical update issues (although I update applications/components manually over an isolated NAS link).
It's sad to see that everyday users have gotten habituated to these constant workflow braking updates. No wonder many people I know are jumping to the Apple ecosystem after getting a taste with a M2.
It’s sad to see that everyday users have gotten habituated to these constant workflow braking updates.
I've never understood this problem, people talk like it has a mind of it's own and i just don't get it.
I'm running windows 11 pro and have never had updates interrupt my shit.
Updates show up in my system tray, then it updates overnight when i sleep.
Most don't leave their PC on overnight.
I remember when I went on my lunch break and came back to see my PC part way through upgrading to Windows 10, which I never agreed to. So yeah, Windows update can definitely act bizarrely.
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And then Windows overwrites your bootloader so it can only boot into Windows.
I need to overwrite windows because currently I'm just considering my laptop unusable until I bother to fix grub after that...
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Wait, you guys can click in grub?
Wouldn’t be shock for me if it existed. You can definitely do that in rEFInd though
OSHA would say having a Windows install is a potential hazard because it can become dangerous if activated. To remedy, you must remove the hazard.
Safety is no accident.
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Too real. I booted up windows last week because I wanted to test something quickly before going to bed... starting it and testing my thing took about 5 mins; but then shutting down took more than half an hour.
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Simple fix here. Just get rid of your Windows partition.
wish you could install only security updates
You can delay all other updates with the group policy editor. You can disable preview builds and you and delay quality updates by 30 days and delay feature updates by 365 days. The bugs are always worked out by then.
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I was afraid of exactly this happening. So I just deleted my partition when I fully committed to Linux a few years ago.
Happened to me just yesterday.
Wife: what are you doing? Me: pushing the hard reset button. Wife: it's not possible. Windows started booting up! Me: No, it's necessary.
Hello
At that point, wipe out windows, expand your partition and reinstall grub
For me it was the opposite. I had Ubuntu installed and wanted to do a upgrade to the next release, took around 2 hours "settings things up" where I just said fuck it and force closed it.
My experience with big release distros was like that. I rarely had an upgrade complete without issue. Rolling release has been good to me so far. Granted, this was 10 years ago and things gave probably gotten better since.
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I mean, if it was accidental then... Just turn it off and boot back into Linux? You realise you can just turn it off while it's downloading updates, right? Heck, you can even pause updates long term if you want! 😱 Crazy!
As someone who has turned windows off while it's updating, don't do it. You might be lucky enough to only have some files deleted
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In the Windows community I'm guessing the top message would say:
When you install Linux but didn't realize a dozen locales were preselected
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