That's what happens when you don't keep windows locked inside a virtual machine.
Microsoft breaks bootloader and nixes Linux partition
Microsoft: "patch seems to be working as intended"
Doesn't Windows break dual booting semi-regularly? I've always avoided it as I've had friends get burned by this in the past. I guess I just keep different OSes on different drives, but that obviously isn't feasible for everyone.
I know that used to be the case. It's why I stopped trying to use a dual-booting system and instead just installed windows in Virtualbox.
I have dualboot set-up on my MacBook and have no. But it is a long time ago, since I last started macOS and my Mac would not get new macOS updates anyway😂 that was the reason to install Linux in the first place 😝
It’s a lot better in uefi, MBR dual booting was always sort of hacky.
I recently discovered that Rufus has an option to set up a Windows ISO as "Windows on the go" so I dug out an old 500Gb SSD that had a USB adapter with it and installed Windows on that. So now instead of dual booting I can just hit F12 and boot from USB on the rare occasions when I need to run something in Windows.
It's also quite satisfying to be able to physically remove Windows and shove it into a drawer when it goes full Windows too lol.
I pretty much did just go full office space on it lol. Here's a fun thing I just learned:
Windows 11 apparently defaults to a tiny fraction of space for system restore points, and if it runs out of space it just deletes the old ones without asking or telling you. Because it defaults to a tiny amount of space, it apparently only ever keeps one system restore point on hand.
This means I made a manual one on a clean install when I'd got my settings sorted, so I can hop back to that when Windows inevitably fucks up. But because it's Windows, what it did was apply a big update, fuck it up, then save that fuck up as the only restore point.
I restored it anyway just to see what would happen, and that broke even more stuff. Back in the drawer!
I guess I switch to single boot Fedora Silverblue just in time
