Luckily it’s usually an easy fix if you know your way around the UEFI. Just plop grub back where it needs to be in the boot order.
Although I definitely wish Windows didn’t mess with the boot order occassionally.
Also, finally, I dual-boot and I haven’t actually had this happen in about a year now. I think maybe Microsoft finally stopped fucking around (with this one thing).
EDIT: Actually, it could be because I’m on Windows 10 and they stopped “Feature Updates” and all I get are security updates now. That could be why they stopped fucking with my boot order.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/microsoft-sorry-but-no-more-feature-updates-for-windows-10
I had to put a password on my bios to get windows 10 to stop messing with my boot order.
Actually, it could be because I’m on Windows 10 and they stopped “Feature Updates” and all I get are security updates now. That could be why they stopped fucking with my boot order.
Same here, I was wondering why my days were so (relatively) calm as of late…
The partition is there. It’s just that Windows overwrites the MBR as if no other operating systems could possibly exist.
It’s 2023, Linux has great UEFI support, there is no reason to be using MBR over GPT.
My system doesn’t have UEFI support, so there’s that.
Valid reason, then.
It’s 2023, Linux has great UEFI support, there is no ONE reason to be using MBR over GPT.
I have to admit, I’m a little surprised someone has a machine that doesn’t support UEFI, because the board I bought in 2012 had UEFI support… 11 years puts most machines into barely being usable in Windows.
While it’s a valid reason, guy has to be working with either some really old or very specific hardware.
its not that weird considering the cult-like appreciation of old thinkpads
The thing is… I think a lot of people don’t know that they have uefi support…
I have had the same windows install and motherboard (AMD is so great with long term socket support) for years, and figuring out how to change my bios and os setting so that I got a propper uefi boot was non-trivial.
Uefi has been a thing for a long time, but it’s not been the default for motherboards afaik. So you have had to go into bios and find the right settings.
Fact check: true
Source: It happened to me.
Fact check: false
Source: It didn’t happen to me.
Checkmate atheists.
Fact check… false?? (it’s false? did they just say fact check false? my goodness they fact checked it false! nothing’s ever false! my god!)
Never happened to me and I’ve been dual booting for a couple of years already. On the other side, updating linux mint from 20 to 21 made my printer not work despite installing and reinstalling the drivers many times ( tried the driver from the official website, random scripts from GitHub, nothing works). It’s pretty dumb having to boot crapdows (it takes 20 minutes to just boot no joke and i freaking debloated that shit the day i installed it.) to print anything and it’s basically why none of my family wants to deal with linux.
Just a thought, no idea if it would work for your situation, would you be able to use a Windows vm, that way you wouldn’t have to reboot?
as the “it takes 20 minutes to boot” implies, the computer is pretty weak. 4GB ddr3, HDD and a i3 4xxx.
So, long story ahead…
Couple weeks ago Windows screwed me over by converting a disk to dynamic disk (whatever that means) when trying to extend a partition, making it impossible to boot to Linux since whatever format is used for dynamic disks is proprietary, also, it just plain removed my GRUB from existence.
Then when trying to roll that back with obscure methods (since Microsoft claims in all their documentation and forums that the only way to roll back to basic disk is by wiping and reformatting) I ended up with two conflicting partition tables!
Long story short(er) I painfully backed up everything, took my chance on the MBR table since it looked the least scary of the two (luckily I was right), and reinstalled GRUB from a bootable USB.
I lost a Saturday on that shit and learned to never touch a single drive from Windows ever again.
PS: Always back up your data regularly, because fuck me Windows makes existing almost intolerable.
I’ve been using systemd-boot instead during the last time I had to dual boot which lasted for like 2 years
Windows didn’t interfere with systemd-boot at all and stood the test of time even after the many updates
(Probably because Lennard Poettering now work for Microsoft)
Some of the new motherboards will recognize dual boot systems natively. My ASUS saw the partitions when I upgraded my motherboard and gives me a boot option menu. Super easy. Not that GRUB was too difficult.
I still can’t replace MS Excel.
Then don’t.
But could you use the web version? Except you are pirating it. I also assume that some features don’t exist in the web version but Microsoft pushed the usage to web versions by banning Chromebook users from downloading Office from Play Store.
I have used the Web version but it does not have those “Alt” key shortcuts, that’s the only thing I miss in Libre Calc. That and the auto complete.
I’m using pirated Excel 2016. Has not crashed even once. While the web thing freezes as it wishes.
