This is why I don't dual-boot.
this post was submitted on 25 Mar 2024
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Only reason I keep a Windows install on an SSD for my laptop: my schools remote test proctoring service only works with Windows and Mac. I normally run pop_os on it but switch to the windows when I have to take a test.
i need to remove my windows boot drive from my workstation, but it lives in a rack. And has a temperament. Sometimes when losing power shit just refuses to boot for like an hour, eventually it randomly boots. Still unsure why. Could be anything really. Best guess is bad cmos battery though. Could be slightly bunged bios, could be marginally fucky cpu. Who knows. It's fine when shutdown with power for long periods of time though.
Gotta love modern hardware, if only 7 segment displays weren't a 300 dollar privilege.
I'm using EFISTUB instead of a boot loader (on the PC running Arch, anyway) and Windows hasn't figured out how to break that, yet.
Somehow it hasn't figured out how to ruin my systemd-boot bootloader on EFI, (NixOS, this time) either. Perhaps it just has better support for EFI than BIOS?
I have three ssd and none of them boot windows. I do have a windows vm (and macos too) in virt-manager in case I need it, but I haven't boot them for about a year.
I have an old, spinning rust WinBlows, easily inserted in the ex-cdrom slot of my bathtub movie lenovo t440p, because once a year or so I need to upgrade the firmware of some crap that has no other option. Wastes about 24 hrs of (annoying but small) power updating each time. May this pass, in time. (like tears in rain :)
I should get around to imaging it onto a SSD, but I don't, due to distaste, and then I need it again. :(.
just leave a grub floppy in the machine and boot from there, you won't even notice.
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I have yet to have this happen to me lol.
Both my drives are the same Linux distro, I have Windows and MacOS in a VM when I need them, and Windows To Go for rare cases where I actually need to boot win11.
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I gotta give dual booting a shot. I need windows for my college's crappy exam software, but I also can't afford another laptop just for Linux
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