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And this is why you should install windows to a docker container on your server and not let it touch anything else. Link to GitHub repo.

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Happened to me two weeks ago, not necessarily because of an update, but because of the restart

It saw my entire btrfs distro install on a separate drive as “corrupt”, and ran a chkdsk while I was away. Now GRUB shows all my installs but can’t boot them anymore.

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Boot into Linux using a USB, and fix your boot partition from there.

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Good meme, I like it. Windows blows. :)

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Windows only updates the bootloader, it doesn’t touch Linux partitions. After an update you just have to fix the bootloader again which isn’t too hard if you know how it works.

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I’m sure it varies a lot, but you should be able to enter bios setup and add a boot option. There may be a file browser type popup and you can add the known file as a boot option. Right now it may be looking for the old file location on the current windows boot option you have.

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I’d argue one shouldn’t even be messing with dual booting if they don’t understand much about the bootloader.

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The best way to learn how it works is to mess with it. I have reinstalled my Surface Go 2 numerous times because I messed something up. After leaving Windows I have used dual boot with Arch and Chrome OS for a while, and now I just use Arch including secureboot enabled.

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My counterpoint would be how does one best learn about anything if not by messing with it

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As in tradition - mindset. Getting on Linux requires a certain mindset, and this gets more and more true the weirder and more involved whatever it is that you are planning to do gets.

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What about stop making bullshit posts? Windows have never did that to me, and there’s no reason why would it touch any partition aside from its own and (if it exists) the Windows boot one.

That said, It MIGHT replace MBR boot record but I don’t know if that’s very likely these days. I remember upgrading from Windows 8 to 10 and Windows left my MBR alone, and I was able to boot to GRUB just fine.

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If you install Linux first and then Windows on the same drive, it will fuck up your bootloader.

You can easily make Grub boot Windows, so just overwrite whatever fuckup Windows made, or install Windows first.

It won’t happen with a simple update, though, that’s for sure. Maybe if you’re upgrading Windows to a new major release.

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Noooo, not the heckin windorinos, s-stop bullying the multibillion dollar company g-guys ;-;

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Inventing FUD is a bad look regardless of if you’re punching up or punching down. It’s not about who the target is. It’s that FUD is inherently dishonest, and being dishonest reflects poorly on your character.

The Linux community should try to be better than that. We shouldn’t stoop to Microsoft’s old level.

Admittedly, I haven’t set up a dual booted Linux machine in about a decade, so I don’t know if it’s gotten dramatically worse.

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Not everyone here is a Lemmy user. I just don’t like people making idiotic comments. There’s plenty do criticize about Windows without having to make stuff up due to lack of IT knowledge. If you claim calling out someone’s incorrect IT knowledge as a defending Windows, that’s just you being an idiot and knowing nothing of IT.

It’s amazing, bro that you expose your woefully inadequate knowledge. If you want to troll, don’t pretend to be anything else.

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Windows users are lolcows bro, just farm them for lulz.

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Someone having money isn’t an excuse to not call out poor behavior against them. Making nonsensical posts that are not even accurate from an IT perspective helps no one. At best, it’s just lies to get fake internet attention, at worst, it exposes a lack of understanding of the technology.

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Lol didn’t read

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Calling someone out on their bullshit can do that to a person.

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