On Windows the OS pisses you off. On Linux the only one you can be mad at is yourself because Linux does exactly what you tell it todo
A mistake in Linux can cause it to uninstall its bootloader.
A mistake in Windows can also cause it to uninstalling Linux’s bootloader.
Windows IS a mistake.
Windows caused me to install Linux bootloader 🤷
Not going to lie. Many years ago on one of my first Linux installs that I actually built up to be more than just a dev playground, I deleted my bootloader… it just let me do that, no scary confirm. That is the day I learned Linux is guardrails-off, lol.
My personal hurdle as teenager always was having to keep windows on same disk for my sisters to use while struggling to install Linux besides it so I could have that semi transparent terminal like in the movies. Can’t even count how many times I’ve bricked bootloader because of that, but when it worked I felt like I’m a president
Windows is the best program to use if you want to accidentally lose your boot ability. I haven’t bothered to try dual boot for 10 years because I got tired of the bullshit.
It is not a problem if they are on different disks, though? I hope so :)
Really especially at the my teenage times, there was no Google to help you, no mentors to guide you. You got some shitty homemade linux distro nobody ever heard of on CD from a friend and only way was through trial and error. Funny times
Yeah… uninstall the bootloader… I may just do that. Good idea. That’ll be fun… a little extra security hurdle to hop over to be able to boot into the machine. Doesn’t really do much to the attack surface, but eliminates about half of the dumb attackers. Glad for the freedom to have unique innovative security arrangements. Thankyou Free Software.
Technically speaking you don’t need a bootloader to boot Linux, with uefi of course you can use efistub and just boot from there but you could also have a separate Linux distro on a USB stick than chroot into your main one. Hell even if you uninstall the kernel there are still ways to repair the system.
I once unistalled edge and now Teams app doesn’t work too. So I unistalled it too. Now I use Teams on Firefox
That strategy works when you uninstall Windows too. :D
Teams on Firefox for me doesn’t recognize my perfectly functional webcam that every other meeting software uses just fine lol.
Just make sure to reinstall a bootloader before the next reboot. Or bring one one a USB stick when you need it. Or just copy me and boot me in a VM. What do I care? I’m just a kernel.
I wanna update my arch with a single command/click, no confirms.
The whole forum: Nooooo!!! You’re gonna break your system!! You’ll regret this!! Nooooooooo!
Meanwhile 99% of people just spam yes at their terminal when updating and restore a snapshot when things don’t work out.
What’s the point of a backup you don’t load?
exactly
Now imagine which one would work best for regular users.
The one that lets you do anything you like, or the one that protects the user from their own mistakes.
There’s plenty of distros that don’t let you destroy your system.
Sure, but that is not what OP wants either.
There’s plenty of distros that do let you destroy your system.
Would this in theory allow me to switch from “legacy BIOS” boot to UEFI boot?
yes
You can uninstall edge
I don’t know now but years ago when I used to use windows you wouldn’t be able to uninstall it
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Linux does let you fuck around and find out lol
And when you reverse destination and source when using the dd command, you learn an important lesson, “the disk destroyer” nickname is legit.
But then you find out, and you learn, and we become better users for it.
I’m a good user on a very broken system
It’s okay I installed FreeBSD the other day and it still crashes.
True, I only broke my boot twice… Never again
With the number of times I have done the live distro chroot thing you’d think I would have the procedure memorized
Don’t be so sure.
rm -rf /Please, if you do that
rm / -rfand you’re really looking into that path to make sure it’s correct.
initrd? Sounds like bloat, I’m deleting it.
I’ve debloated my OS down to a typewriter.
Olivetti it is🤪
Smith Corona Linux.
Pencil and paper for me boys. I’d do cave painting, there are no caves around me.
I use Selectric Linux btw
Found the IBM loyalist.
You could’ve just installed slack
Ahhh, sackcloth and ashes! Tarballs. Yum!
