• tempest@lemmy.ca
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    11 months ago

    I understand it’s not for everyone but I jumped ship to Linux 10 years ago or so. The defining moment was me disabling Cortana only to have her reappear after an update.

    At least with Linux when I’m fighting the OS it doesn’t feel like the OS developers are fighting back.

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      11 months ago

      Ironically, Microsoft would later remove Cortana itself in an update.

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      11 months ago

      Same motivation here, but it took me until last year to make the switch. Pushing Office on me combined with all the good things I’ve been hearing about gaming on Linux was enough to push me over. I installed in dual boot, but I have never wanted to nor had the need to boot into my Windows install in at least three months.

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        11 months ago

        I did the same thing about the same time as you. I did boot into Windows at one point and it updated, and it absolutely fucked my system. It removed or disabled the boot loader and I think it fucked up the partition table too IIRC. I then removed everything Windows and installed another distro I wanted to try and it’s been smooth sailing since, with no reason to regret removing Windows.

        Edit: I was able to recover the partitions, but the Windows section of the bootloader I was never able to get working again after getting it to boot into my Linux install. That’s the moment I decided to just clear out that drive and switch distros.

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          11 months ago

          This isn’t the first time I’ve heard a similar story. Windows is often not a good neighbor in multi boot configurations.

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        11 months ago

        Funny you say that ah

        For real though I use a down stream arch distro.

        Installing arch manually is a good learning experience but I’ve got other things to do.