The twist, windows updates breaks the linux boot loader if installed on the same drive
this post was submitted on 13 Aug 2025
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It broke mine several months back. windows is on a small m.2 500gb, my nix is on a 4tb ssd and the boot loader is there, 2 different drives with their own boot loaders. I even made it so i have to choose the drive to boot from, it still decided to kill it
It's because there, technically, should only be one EFI boot partition. Microsoft just assumes that the first EFI partition it finds is the real one and it 'fixes' it automatically.
Good for the average user who just wants their computer to turn on, but bad if you're trying to dual boot.
When I was still dual booting, I'm 100% linux now, I kept my Linux bootloader on a USB so Windows couldn't break it.
Linux bootloader on a USB so Windows couldn’t break it.
The windows drive is the first drive, so, I may try that. I am trying to move 100% but I have some software issues that require windows. And what the hell happened to make? 15+ yrs ago I used to build a lot of apps with make, always just ran and worked, now... can't get em to complete. One day, when I am ready for the abuse, I will ask for help
Make still works, though you should try to use the package manager for everything if possible.
It's likely that you're missing dependencies, package managers evolved because it is incredibly tedious to try a build, fail because of a missing dependency, so you grab that dependency and it fails to build because of a missing dependency, etcetcetc.
One day, when I am ready for the abuse, I will ask for help
In my experience the abuse isn't so bad as long as you've done a bit of research on your own and explain what you've tried so far. You'll still get some flak, but it wouldn't be the Internet without a few assholes.
Check the Arch and Gentoo wikis, even if you don't use them. Often they have good information that can point you in the right direction (obviously be extra careful because a lot of instructions are distro specific).
Terraria works. I'm good