Confound you, WSUS!

vinyl , 7 days ago

I entirely avoided this issue ever since I started to mess with Linux with separate drives, and then brought in a litany of other issues by me whenever I wanted to wipe and reinstall windows or Linux.

Ziglin , 8 days ago

Best bit is Windows couldn’t boot for me either (all bios entries were empty). I’m glad I had a live USB laying around.

chraebsli , 9 days ago

thats why i formated the windows partitions on my laptop last week

masinko , 9 days ago

This meme format has a lot of potential

Wizard_Pope , 9 days ago

This happened to me after partizioning a fucking external drive in the windows partition manager. I jist nuked the windows install and now use wine or a VM for my windows needs

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot , 9 days ago

Maybe you should put some distance between yourself and Buckingham Palace next time you install Linux.

Wizard_Pope , 9 days ago

I thought being about 1000km away would be enough but apparently not.

Ascend910 , 9 days ago

Give us the source OP

Shardikprime OP , 9 days ago

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/34fc6026-fa5e-48d1-bb68-d0b6453622fc.jpeg

luciferofastora , 9 days ago

I had the opposite once, years ago: I don’t know the cause anymore, but somehow Windows disappeared from my grub.

By the time I had finally secured all my data with the intent to make that absence permanent, it did reappear (again, no idea why), but I was committed. Steamrolled the entire drive with a new Ubuntu install and haven’t used Windows privately since.

I did need to use tools that don’t run on Linux (even with wine - believe me, I tried) for uni and used a windows VM, my work laptop is Windows because I need the same tools and get no say in it anyway, but haven’t had a direct Windows install on my system since 2022.

My private OS of choice is by now Nobara, though I also intend to use an obsolete SSD to try more distros with.

yamapikariya , 9 days ago

Can relate. A lot of my college work required software that only wanted to run on windows

luciferofastora , 8 days ago

Shame is, I kinda like the tool (Microsoft Power BI) for its graphical interface and capabilities. Don’t get me wrong, I have plenty of complaints too, and its promises of empowering users to find their own insights come with a lot of conditions. But I’ve also not found any comparable FOSS alternatives.

ShadowZone , 10 days ago

Had this exact thing happen to me. Luckily my Framework laptop’s BIOS allows me to pick the EFI boot order and I set it back to the Linux Boot loader.

SaltyIceteaMaker , 9 days ago

What framework do you have? I plan on getting one

ShadowZone , 9 days ago

I have the 13" AMD one. Only reason I still have Windows on it is because I can’t get Davinci Resolve to run under Ubuntu. Otherwise very happy with my purchase.

SaltyIceteaMaker , 8 days ago

Glad to hear that. I plan on getting the 16 but i have a concern about the expansion cards. Specifically the display port one. See i want to get the valve index but that needs Displayport to work. However i have read multiple times that the display port card is kinda buggy varying from person to person. Do you have any experience with the dp expansion card?

ShadowZone , 7 days ago

Sorry I don’t. I only have the HDMI card.

Does the Index really need full DP or does it work via USB-C? Because in the end all those expansion cards are just USB-C accessories. I’m asking because we own a Quest2 and use it with USB-C and my desktop PC. Haven’t tried it with my Laptop.

SaltyIceteaMaker , 7 days ago

I think this may be dependent on the bandwidth. Cause some people in the framework forum reported that dp to thunderbolt adapter works but dp to hdmi doesn’t. They also reported issues outside vr with the dp card specifically. So i was wondering wether you had any experience with it. Thank you anyway

drathvedro , 10 days ago

For me it was the reverse - ntfs-3g was constantly corrupting my windows drives because apparently NTFS is incredibly complicated and it can only handle a subset of that. But, the last time I used dual boot setup was more than 5 years ago. Has this gone any better nowadays?

JustCopyingOthers , 10 days ago

It might be that the default for Windows is to sleep rather than do a full shutdown. Whenever Linux looks at a Windows partition it looks corrupted. When windows starts up again it’s inconsistent as some of the data was in the sleep image.

AProfessional , 10 days ago

It already detects this and refuses to write to such a partition.

fl42v , 10 days ago

Just shove wondows in a VM or something

5714 , 10 days ago

I’m not gonna fire up Windows (Update) for this, but shouldn’t the bootloader handle this?

gaylord_fartmaster , 10 days ago

I’ve never actually had this problem, but the issue is Windows will wipe your bootloader from the ESP, so it can’t do anything about it. You can use your bootloader of choice to fix it, but you’d have to chroot from a live image.

Source: I accidentally deleted the wrong EFI partition

Ziglin , 8 days ago

Sounds about right. In my case I think it didn’t even wipe the whole thing.

I just don’t understand why they share EFI partitions.

9point6 , 10 days ago

I don’t know if this is a new meme format or not, but I’ve enjoyed seeing it on my feed today

CarlosCheddar , 10 days ago

I fixed this by deleting Windows.

MajorHavoc , 10 days ago

Yeah. This crap was the last straw for me to stop dual booting.

nexussapphire , 10 days ago

There’s always a virtual machine if you need it for work.

Evil_Shrubbery , 10 days ago

Not if it’s on a fully encrypted separate disk.

(Obligatorily: ‘Also if you dont have Windows.’)

ftbd , 8 days ago

Last time I installed Windows, it looked for existing EFI partitions on other drives. I could only get windows to create an EFI partition on its own drive by physically disconnecting all other drives before starting the installation.

Evil_Shrubbery , 8 days ago

Yes, that works too, same principle.

electro1 , 10 days ago

In my case I used to lose the Windows Boot manager entry… And only see PopOS… I was scared of Linux, but it pushed me to explore it even more… well I need to send an email for example, and only Linux was in front of me… So, thanks Windows Update.