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Waiting for the MS apologists to say this is a Crowdstrike problem or some other fucking dumbass shit.
Microsoft by and large are just computational cancer at this point. Bloat, crud, fud, and junk.
The Crowdstrike problem was in fact a Crowdstrike problem. It affected Linux too, but of course there are vastly fewer users of Crowdstrike on Linux: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theregister.com/AMP/2024/07/21/crowdstrike_linux_crashes_restoration_tools/
This is pretty obviously a Microsoft problem.
I stopped trying to dual boot entirely with all the problems it caused me. I'm surprised the community universally seems to recommend dual booting as an easy to setup option for beginners.
Yup
This is shit. But dual booting (on the same drive) has not been viable for decades. It inevitably becomes a mess. Just have windows on one drive and Linux on another if you can't fully switch to Linux.
Optimally we wouldn't I think but it usually boils down to being the lesser evil.
Never had an issue with it myself
"works on my machine"
Yeah, dual booting on a single drive causes more harm than good. It's very annoying, and I've seen people think it's Linux's fault, saying "I can boot into Windows just fine." It's like saying a bully is the better kid since he never has dirty clothes.
Best solution is to format the C:\ drive and never touch any Microsoft product again. That is what I did 10 years ago.
The newly freed 40+GB are a nice bonus.
You also got rid of a lot of malware as a bonus. And your PC boots a lot faster now as well.
Cost me a few hours and ended up just disabling secure boot in the end. Wish I didn't need MS for some programs.
Can't you run them in a VM?
I did try that years ago, ran into performance issues and other bugs, and it wasn't worth messing around with when dual booting is so simple. Might reconsider in the future if MS keeps messing up though.
I think somebody posted a guide about passing GPU function from the host to a guest VM (for example) with vfio, so it's certainly possible to get a more bare-metal experience!
Just curious, what programs? I'm obsessed with only using FOSS, maybe I can give you some alternatives.
For me I have to keep a Windows VM around to run payroll software once a month. There is a Linux version of the software but it depends on some ancient glibc, IIRC. It takes up around 50GB of my NVMe, which I'd move it off of if it didn't already take around 15 minutes for this app to finish loading. All around it is very annoying. The one upside is that while this app is loading it has this ugly always-on-top logo for HMRC but because it's in a VM now I don't have to see it.
It's been a mix throughout the years. The initial problem software years ago was Adobe Illustrator and InDesign, but since then it's been various engineering/programming related software that only supports Windows. I'm primarily on Linux at this point on my laptop.
I've got secure boot disabled so I'm good.