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    24 hours ago

    I see some comments trashing dual boot, I really don’t understand why.

    Back when I dual booted, every Windows update was a dice roll whether and how it would decide to fuck up my dual boot setup.

    Sometimes it decides to “fix” grub. Sometimes it wanted to encrypt something new to protect me from all the theives that wander through my living room. Sometimes Windows just had an update that was 1000% sure that Windows was the default boot entry, and so doing something extremely sensitive and rebooting to finish without telling the user, should be fine.

    Windows under dual boot, for me, was like having a fragile semi-suicidal pet. I found myself doing constant research to rescue it from itself.

    Eventually I did let it die.

    So I’m not mad at it, exactly. I’m just over it.

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      23 hours ago

      Damn, I relate to that, back when I used to multi boot several systems on the same drive, windows always found a way to fuck up the boot loader.

      Nowadays I leave them in separete drives, with debian and grub as the main option, windows don’t even have a chance to interfere since the bios boot the debian drive first.

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        21 hours ago

        Nowadays I leave them in separete drives, with debian and grub as the main option, windows don’t even have a chance to interfere since the bios boot the debian drive first.

        Nice! I imagine that could have saved me many headaches.