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> The one idea I still have left is to enable the hidden administrator account in Windows 11, which gives you password-free access to what is basically Windows’

by Lammy 1y ago

> The one idea I still have left is to enable the hidden administrator account in Windows 11, which gives you password-free access to what is basically Windows’ root account. Pardon my pedantry, but technically Windows' equivalent of the root account is `NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM`, although it's a little different in that it isn't an account one can use to Logon. You're right that `Administrator` is the highest privilege level interactive user account :) https://security.stackexchange.com/a/66747 https://security.stackexchange.com/a/66747 This garbage and more is the reason I did my Framework 12's installation of Windows 11 (dual booting with FreeBSD 15) using this `unattend.xml` generator to disable internet requirement, disable mandatory Microsoft Account, disable intrusive spyware, disable disable disable: https://schneegans.de/windows/unattend-generator/ https://schneegans.de/windows/unattend-generator/ Sucks to have such an adversarial relationship with my own computer though. One shouldn't have to Know All The Tricks to avoid this shit.

type0 1y ago
> Windows 11 (dual booting with FreeBSD 15 Not sure if you are aware of this but dual booting can be broken with new Windows update if you're not using different disks.
- Lammy 1y ago
  The BitLocker thing? I turned off the TPM and “““Secure””” Boot so it shouldn't do that.
  - estimator7292 1y ago
    Windows still likes to occasionally clobber your EFI entries and wipe out grub if it sees it.
    - jaredhallen 1y ago
      You can use the windows boot loader to boot other operating systems. I guess there's no guarantee an update won't remove it from the menu, though. A lot of systems have a boot menu built into UEFI these days, too, which will show you all the bootable partitions on the system.
      - fuzzfactor 1y ago
        I know the NT bootloaders would chainload Linux under BIOS, but have never seen a successful technique using UEFI. Is there an easy-to-understand tutorial? For dual boot I have been relying on Grub to boot Windows which it still does fine with UEFI.
      - Lammy 1y ago
        I'm using rEFInd (because it's pretty!) and have the UEFI executable priority set, so as long as Windows doesn't reformat my ESP I should be fine. Or if it does I at least know how to fix it. Within FreeBSD it's a simple `mount -t msdosfs`, and shoutout to this utility for the Windows side of things: https://github.com/franzageek/WinEFIMounter https://github.com/franzageek/WinEFIMounter The one annoyance was that the Windows installer makes a puny 100MiB ESP by default, which would actually be enough for everything I have on there at the moment, but it felt small so I bumped it up to 1G before installing the second OS.
bitwize 1y ago
The problem with Linux, they say, is that you have to fiddle with it endlessly to get it working; Windows, by contrast, Just Works Right Out of the Box. Oh, but you don't actually want to use Windows as it comes out of the box, so they tell us you have to use a custom build, replace utilman.exe with cmd.exe, create an unattend.xml, don't connect it to the internet during the install procedure, run these commands, make these registry changes, apply these group policies, and install these aftermarket utilities and then you can FINALLY get a decent Windows experience. Just don't use Windows Update, or it will all be reset again. I'm glad I left that world behind.
- mixmastamyk 1y ago
  After that I’d still have to clear hundreds of gigabytes of disk space it hordes under \Windows.
- Lammy 1y ago
  I'm not telling you to use Windows. I'm telling you I use Windows lol It sucks a lot actually, and everything that's good about it is good despite what Microsoft do to it and not because of them. I love my Lunix too, but sometimes I just wanna click on some robot heads in MvM or make the cars go fast that both don't work so well on my OS of choice: https://old.reddit.com/r/framework/comments/1nkpkoo/burnout_paradise_remastered_performance_on/ https://old.reddit.com/r/framework/comments/1nkpkoo/burnout_...
  - happymellon 1y ago
    Burnout Paradise worked fine out the box on my Steam Deck, and my Linux Chimera "console". The hardest part was dealing with the shitty launchers.
    - Lammy 1y ago
      > FreeBSD Great to hear that about Proton though!
      - 1y ago

by Lammy 1y ago

type0 1y ago

> Windows 11 (dual booting with FreeBSD 15 Not sure if you are aware of this but dual booting can be broken with new Windows update if you're not using different disks.

Lammy 1y ago
The BitLocker thing? I turned off the TPM and “““Secure””” Boot so it shouldn't do that.
- estimator7292 1y ago
  Windows still likes to occasionally clobber your EFI entries and wipe out grub if it sees it.
  - jaredhallen 1y ago
    You can use the windows boot loader to boot other operating systems. I guess there's no guarantee an update won't remove it from the menu, though. A lot of systems have a boot menu built into UEFI these days, too, which will show you all the bootable partitions on the system.
    - fuzzfactor 1y ago
      I know the NT bootloaders would chainload Linux under BIOS, but have never seen a successful technique using UEFI. Is there an easy-to-understand tutorial? For dual boot I have been relying on Grub to boot Windows which it still does fine with UEFI.
    - Lammy 1y ago
      I'm using rEFInd (because it's pretty!) and have the UEFI executable priority set, so as long as Windows doesn't reformat my ESP I should be fine. Or if it does I at least know how to fix it. Within FreeBSD it's a simple `mount -t msdosfs`, and shoutout to this utility for the Windows side of things: https://github.com/franzageek/WinEFIMounter https://github.com/franzageek/WinEFIMounter The one annoyance was that the Windows installer makes a puny 100MiB ESP by default, which would actually be enough for everything I have on there at the moment, but it felt small so I bumped it up to 1G before installing the second OS.

bitwize 1y ago

The problem with Linux, they say, is that you have to fiddle with it endlessly to get it working; Windows, by contrast, Just Works Right Out of the Box. Oh, but you don't actually want to use Windows as it comes out of the box, so they tell us you have to use a custom build, replace utilman.exe with cmd.exe, create an unattend.xml, don't connect it to the internet during the install procedure, run these commands, make these registry changes, apply these group policies, and install these aftermarket utilities and then you can FINALLY get a decent Windows experience. Just don't use Windows Update, or it will all be reset again. I'm glad I left that world behind.

mixmastamyk 1y ago
After that I’d still have to clear hundreds of gigabytes of disk space it hordes under \Windows.
Lammy 1y ago
I'm not telling you to use Windows. I'm telling you I use Windows lol It sucks a lot actually, and everything that's good about it is good despite what Microsoft do to it and not because of them. I love my Lunix too, but sometimes I just wanna click on some robot heads in MvM or make the cars go fast that both don't work so well on my OS of choice: https://old.reddit.com/r/framework/comments/1nkpkoo/burnout_paradise_remastered_performance_on/ https://old.reddit.com/r/framework/comments/1nkpkoo/burnout_...
- happymellon 1y ago
  Burnout Paradise worked fine out the box on my Steam Deck, and my Linux Chimera "console". The hardest part was dealing with the shitty launchers.
  - Lammy 1y ago
    > FreeBSD Great to hear that about Proton though!
    - 1y ago