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> These days, Windows doesn't seem to be in a much better state. I've been watching friends and coworkers complain about getting the Battlefield 6 beta to work.

> These days, Windows doesn't seem to be in a much better state. I've been watching friends and coworkers complain about getting the Battlefield 6 beta to work. One of them had to do a fresh install of his computer, because he was using MBR partitions (which is now a no-no, apparently) and bricked it while trying to convert to a GPT scheme. Well you are talking about a beta. The entire point is to get it out to some of the public to get feedback before final release. Secure boot is probably a requirement for the anti-cheat. IIRC it is a requirement for Windows 11 and Windows 10 is EOL soon. Changing how the partitions work is just dangerous and you should backup before you try converting it. That doesn't seem to be an indictment of Windows IMO. > I use a pretty quirky setup on Linux and I find something that doesn't work properly out of the box maybe once every 2 years. I play a lot of popular multiplayer games with friends, but none of the billion dollar AAA blockbusters. That hasn't been my experience at all. The point that I was making that it is super variable depending on the distro, GPU, game, launcher. I am not distro-hopping to solve problems (I'd learned that didn't work almost two decades ago). I just don't want to deal with it tbh. Rebooting into Windows takes less time that faffing with launch options.

justinrubek 1y ago
Keeping windows around in any capacity takes more time. It only takes it deciding to overwrite your bootloader a single time to become an annoying time sink.
- extraisland 1y ago
  > Keeping windows around in any capacity takes more time. No it doesn't. I honestly not sure what people are doing when they claim this. I have to do a reinstall every 5 years. I do use chocolatey as package manager. I do run the debloat script that removes most of the annoyances. I typically install the follow WSL, MSYS2, Steam, GoG, Podman or Docker, Brave, Thunderbird, Emulators, Python, Go and .NET. With choco this is a oneliner, do some chores in the house and then sign in to everything. It maybe few hours max, every few years. It isn't as onerous as you are suggesting. > It only takes it deciding to overwrite your bootloader a single time to become an annoying time sink. It won't do this randomly like you are suggesting. It does it when doing a full reinstall. It won't do it when you are doing a PC refresh. I've had fix this recently. It isn't super difficult if you've done before. Windows will just overwrite the EFI partition. The process to fix is to boot live-cd, then chroot into the Linux install, use blkid / lsblk to confirm the GPT partitions label that would changed, update fstab, rerun update-grub2 and you are done. It can be a time sink. But Linux itself is generally a massive time sink.

justinrubek 1y ago

Keeping windows around in any capacity takes more time. It only takes it deciding to overwrite your bootloader a single time to become an annoying time sink.

extraisland 1y ago
> Keeping windows around in any capacity takes more time. No it doesn't. I honestly not sure what people are doing when they claim this. I have to do a reinstall every 5 years. I do use chocolatey as package manager. I do run the debloat script that removes most of the annoyances. I typically install the follow WSL, MSYS2, Steam, GoG, Podman or Docker, Brave, Thunderbird, Emulators, Python, Go and .NET. With choco this is a oneliner, do some chores in the house and then sign in to everything. It maybe few hours max, every few years. It isn't as onerous as you are suggesting. > It only takes it deciding to overwrite your bootloader a single time to become an annoying time sink. It won't do this randomly like you are suggesting. It does it when doing a full reinstall. It won't do it when you are doing a PC refresh. I've had fix this recently. It isn't super difficult if you've done before. Windows will just overwrite the EFI partition. The process to fix is to boot live-cd, then chroot into the Linux install, use blkid / lsblk to confirm the GPT partitions label that would changed, update fstab, rerun update-grub2 and you are done. It can be a time sink. But Linux itself is generally a massive time sink.