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Heads up dual booters

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[–] JaredLevi@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 2 months ago

Time for the working class to Take control of the Microsoft corporation. For real windows is just spying on you fam switch to Linux.

[–] bobs_guns@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Stuff like this is why my Windows has been downgraded to a virtual machine.

[–] JoeDaRedTrooperYT@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] bobs_guns@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 months ago

I just put it in Virtualbox. I only use it for Zbrush and Supermemo. Games I run with Proton instead.

[–] Imnecomrade@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Doing a GPU passthrough or a single GPU passthrough if you have the hardware to do so. VM obfuscation is also handy but can still be risky for kernel-level anti-cheat games, so I don't recommend doing so to avoid anti-cheat. I like using QEMU and libvirt with virt-manager.

[–] Big_Bob@hexbear.net 19 points 2 months ago
[–] KlargDeThaym@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's why I don't use Windows, even in a dualboot setup. If a game doesn't run in proton, U can live without it.

[–] trashxeos@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 2 months ago

My hobby is sim racing, a lot of my peripherals aren't implemented in Linux, not to mention the anticheat issues. So that one machine is dedicated to only that, otherwise Linux FTW!

[–] Aquilae@hexbear.net 12 points 2 months ago

This is the type of shit that made me delete windows entirely even though I was content dual booting. Guess they're intent on making it worse.

[–] comradeRichard@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 2 months ago

My windows and Linux each have their own drive and I change boot order in the bios so they each have their own efi. I've had windows bork it too many times and I got tired of it.

Only reason I still keep windows currently is for fallout London and 76

[–] sgtlion@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I'm fairly certain a Windows update does this kind of thing every 6 months. I know because I have to remake my uefi entries when they disappear every time.