Stéphane CARPENTIER <
sc@fiat-linux.fr> wrote at 16:33 this Sunday (GMT):
Le 22-03-2025, Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> a écrit :
Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> wrote:
rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
On Sat, 22 Mar 2025 15:26:55 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote:
At home, many people boot multiple operating systems from the same disk; >>>>> UEFI has made this easier.
Dual boot worked find for years before UEFI. When MS went to secure boot >>>>in Windows 8 it became a major PITA to dual boot before the Linux distros >>>>caught up.
Dual Boot has always an unstable, fragile PITA.
The only thing that made it unstable for me was when distros
switched to Grub 2. So I started throwing that away in favour of
SysLinux/ExtLinux and things have been easy again.
No, the only thing that made it unstable was Windows. I don't know how
it is now, but for years, every Windows update removed anything that
wasn't its own boot system.
Windows doing that always seemed like a "plausibly deniable" way to
discourage it, along with WSL. "Why risk your computer becoming unusable
when we force you to update, when you can use our built in Linux?"
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