That's why we need two ssds for dual boot : linuxmemes

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This is why I don't dual-boot.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Only reason I keep a Windows install on an SSD for my laptop: my schools remote test proctoring service only works with Windows and Mac. I normally run pop_os on it but switch to the windows when I have to take a test.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

i need to remove my windows boot drive from my workstation, but it lives in a rack. And has a temperament. Sometimes when losing power shit just refuses to boot for like an hour, eventually it randomly boots. Still unsure why. Could be anything really. Best guess is bad cmos battery though. Could be slightly bunged bios, could be marginally fucky cpu. Who knows. It's fine when shutdown with power for long periods of time though.

Gotta love modern hardware, if only 7 segment displays weren't a 300 dollar privilege.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (2 children)

At least 2 SSD is a 100% safe protection.

If only ...

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

just leave a grub floppy in the machine and boot from there, you won't even notice.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I have an old, spinning rust WinBlows, easily inserted in the ex-cdrom slot of my bathtub movie lenovo t440p, because once a year or so I need to upgrade the firmware of some crap that has no other option. Wastes about 24 hrs of (annoying but small) power updating each time. May this pass, in time. (like tears in rain :)

I should get around to imaging it onto a SSD, but I don't, due to distaste, and then I need it again. :(.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

There's definitely software that uses parts of the windows API that games don't touch. And doesn't work properly on Wine. I keep a windows install around just for using an analysis software for some lab equipment that refuses to start in wine.

Things like CAD software are also a struggle, though the latest wine seems to have resolved a number of graphics issues with getting PTC Creo to properly use the nvapi and nvidia graphics drivers through wine.

While wine is amazing, plenty of things don't work with it. Usually you don't need them, but if you do, you do

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

I have three ssd and none of them boot windows. I do have a windows vm (and macos too) in virt-manager in case I need it, but I haven't boot them for about a year.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Both my drives are the same Linux distro, I have Windows and MacOS in a VM when I need them, and Windows To Go for rare cases where I actually need to boot win11.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I just put Windows in a VM, if I bother at all.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I gotta give dual booting a shot. I need windows for my college's crappy exam software, but I also can't afford another laptop just for Linux

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Don't use windows

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

I have yet to have this happen to me lol.