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Count Regal Inkwell@pawb.social
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That is true for me now, but for years I used dual boot on old BIOS based systems so idk /shrug

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That’s actually more safe. Windows can rewrite the UEFI setting to make itself the default again (although that’s of course easy to fix). But it can’t change your BIOS boot order.

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Count Regal Inkwell@pawb.social
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It never did so in updates for me, but assuming it did, UEFI stuff is fixable, just mess with the settings for five seconds :P

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When I booted into Windows 8.1 on my 2016 desktop computer, it immediately destroyed my boot loader for Ubuntu making it impossible to boot. I can’t confirm if it was BIOS or UEFI though. I had to use a convoluted technique to restore the boot loader for it to load Ubuntu afterwards each time I ran Windows.

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