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I FIXED IT

Fucking hell that was a pain. And as most of the painful things in life, it was mostly self-inflicted.

I consider it the polite thing to make a report on what I did to fix things when I solve my problem in a tech support thread (in case someone is ever searching this, to avoid the xkcd scenario ) so I will do that now:

• First off, going into a Windows install media and running some commands, as described by @alphapuggle@programming.dev and @Babbiorsetto@lemmy.sdf.org did do the trick for reviving Windows.
• BUT, I am an idiot and I pointed Windows to the wrong thing, so it wiped out my Linux boot partition. O o p s i e . . .
• I was a bit stumped on what to do, and had actually flashed the USB drive (this idiot here only owns ONE USB drive) with the SUSE install media, fully intending to do a complete reinstall, but THEN,
• I realised that in the install media's menu, there is a "boot Linux system" menu, and entered it on a whim
• Sure enough, that found my existing OpenSUSE install and let me get into it.
• From there I just used YaST to re-install and re-configure grub
• Both Windows and Linux seem to be functioning now, yay

So, 85% "me being an idiot", but, the problem is solved. I thank everyone who made a comment.

I managed to revive windows but now Linux doesn't show up, lmao

But I think I know what to do about that. Give me like 10 and I'll report back.

I cannot get into Windows in any way. I CAN get into Linux with no problem though. Anyway.

(as I said in my post--) My intention is to not use grub at all and to choose windows through my bios menu when I do need it. Which is what I had been doing for the past year.

It's just that its entry in the bios menu has disappeared.

I have HEARD of reFind, but could not figure out how to use it. You got a good tutorial to link me up with?

Yeah, I've been at this since my dad first showed my 10 year old self Linux in the early aughts, and I don't think it's ever going to change.

Some people in the community do get it. It's just that the "I got bullied in high school so now I like to yell at people in webforums" people are so very loud.

I did not touch the windows partitions, and that includes the microsoft reserved partition where the windows bootloader (supposedly, linux doesn't let me mount the MSR partition) is.

I only messed with the drive where Linux was installed and there, I made its own, separate /boot/efi partition.

os-prober was installed, but it was indeed disabled.

I went through the process of activating it and remaking the grub configuration. But it seems to not care about Windows, likely because, as stated in my post, it is on a separate physical drive. Probably some way to tell it to look there as well, but I don't know it. I might do some searching of my own later, right now I got shit to do. Booted into my laptop (which I keep with just windows because its ssd is too small for me to have any fun)

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Did you get killed mid writing the comment? That's ominous.

Anyway, I thank you for actual helpful comment instead of the others just calling me dumb for dual booting at all. :P

I'll see what I can do.

But generaly do not dual boot unless you have to.

Thanks that doesn't help in the slightest :3

Yea so I got no choice?

The school where I did the equivalent of elementary/middle school education had a strict "absolutely no hats" rule.

I have no clue why, but if you were caught wearing a hat (or cap or...) you'd get into trouble. First time a warning and you take it off. Second time they take the hat away from you and return it after seven days. Third time you get suspended.