But Windows 11 is so good!!11!1!

I haven't booted Windows since February and at this point I'm afraid to.

Stop talkimg about your ex, Cartman.

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

You can "click" in GRUB?

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

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.

And then Windows overwrites your bootloader so it can only boot into Windows.

Wait, you guys can click in grub?

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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.

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.

I was afraid of exactly this happening. So I just deleted my partition when I fully committed to Linux a few years ago.

wish you could install only security updates

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.

But I can’t change the taskbar size

systemd-boot for anyone that is tired of GRUB/Windows antics.

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.

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

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!

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.

Oh man, I KNOW

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

Man, imagine using GRUB.

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)

@dinosaur game I'm sure this was a request of many

Just use Windows Update Blocker 🤷.

https://www.sordum.org/9470/windows-update-blocker-v1-8/