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I have a laptop still with Windows 10. I got it from my late sister about 4 years ago, booted it up, went and installed Ubuntu (18.04 at the time), and never touched Windows again.
I later read somewhere that W10 was forcibly upgrading itself to W11, so I'm afraid to even boot into it. Should probably take some time to copy everything important over and finally nuke it.
For reference, I've been using Linux since around 2012.
Man, imagine using GRUB.
Its poorly the defacto standard on most common distros
What's the problem with GRUB and will it impact someone who sees the boot menu maybe three times a year at most?
Nothing is wrong with grub, I'm taking the piss by saying quippy things on a meme post.
Ah, gotcha. You weren't the only one to say this, so I thought there might be something more to it.
I don't think so. You just want to pick the right tool for your system. With modern uefi boot systems, systemd-boot is simpler and quicker. There are use cases for grub, such as if you have the kernal outside of an efi partition.
Systemd-boot is my personal preference, boots fast, is unintrusive, and you never have to rebuild anything to make changes.
In the end, everyone is free to use what they want. That's the beauty of Linux.
this one i don't understand im in windows insider beta so i get a lot of frequent updates but i never notice them because windows has gotten good at only doing them when im not on the computer. so ill wake up and they're already completed
Lol is your OS always on?
Unfortunately, windows likes to wake your computer from sleep to update and reboot without your permission. All unsaved work be damned.
After buying a steam deck and seeing how good everything worked I just yeeted my entire bootdrive. Never looked back ever again (Then again I still own a surfacebook so it's not fully commiting)
You can "click" in GRUB?
people who insist on using windows should just run it in a VM, it has suprisingly low overhead these days, you can even game with it if you insist, but i'm hearing wine/proton is getting good enough that it doesn't even matter
windows' ram overhead is insane though, it's not like I can't run it but I wouldn't want to daily drive it