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The Quiet Revolution: GNU/Linux Crosses 6% Desktop Market Share—And It’s Just the Beginning (puri.sm)

submitted 2 days ago by Sunshine@piefed.ca to c/linux@programming.dev

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[–] traceur201@piefed.social 39 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I recently wiped my 10yr running windows install that had all manner of shady hacks applied over the years to basically lobotomize it, after a hardware upgrade. As I was wiping I was largely intending to create another "lobotomized" win10 install as the second install on dual boot, but windows on top of everything is known for breaking dual boot. Working around sheer hostility at every level, and for what? Basically just to play pirated games since steam games work on Linux now. I never bothered trying to prop it back up and have been only better off for it

[–] Genius@lemmy.zip 19 points 2 days ago

You can use Lutris to play pirated games on Linux

[–] Hond@piefed.social 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I was dualbooting of two seperate nvme drives for each os. Worked pretty well for almost a year until i distro hopped. But for some reason my windows boot partition was located on my linux drive which i purged entirely while installing the new OS. Because why would be there any windows component on my linux drive, right?

Recreating the windows boot partition on the correct drive was more complicated than anything i ever encountered on linux so far. Took like 5 hours and funnily enough was only doable via a terminal.

Also there isnt a reason left for me to put up with microsofts bullshit. A few weeks ago i got a racing game with VR and wheel support running in an afternoon. The title is even abandonware so i had to grab some repack with a windows only installer.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

that's strange, what filesystem was that? windows cannot handle linux filesystems, by itself.

wasn't that /boot/efi? if so windows uses that too, it's a designated fat32 partition for uefi bootables.

[–] Hond@piefed.social 5 points 2 days ago

Uuh, could have been /boot/efi ? I dont know anymore. It was a few weeks ago and in an adhd induced rush to fix that problem now and now was until 3am.