So fun story, I recently set up Mint to dual boot with windows 10, then shortly later decided it was working just fine and reformatted my whole windows drive. Which included the boot partition that pointed to Mint.
The problem was that I updated my MOBO bios after using a USB to install Mint, and now my USB installer (needed to run Boot Repair) opened to a command line instead of the installer. While trying to find the settings to fix that I restored factory defaults in my BIOS which triggered Secure Boot, which wouldn’t let me turn it off without disconnecting all of my hard drives first (and that is a whole thing with my m.2’s).
Anyway it turns out my USB had gone bad so I made a new one and fixed it, but man I never thought I could break my computer so many different ways at once. Don’t delete your boot loader, guys.
shenanigans
That’s a really weak word for the tracking, logging, capturing my screen, spying, high-jacking my data to Onedrive, resetting my basic settings (default browser, file association choices).
“Shenanigans”. Sure.
Windows - the best ad for linux
If you’re even the least bit interested you really should try it. I swapped my 79 year old mother-in-law over to Pop and she hasn’t had an issue yet going on 4 years.
There’s still a persistent myth that Linux is complicated and only for people who know a lot about computers. But it’s only like that if you want it to be. It can be very simple and user friendly.
Windows on the other hand is more complicated now than it has ever been.
I plan to do that. But my grandpa goes into ragemode when something doesn’t work as it used to, and my grandma fully relies on buttons being where they always are and where, as she’s nearly blind. It’s gonna take a lot of theming to support that.
Very true, though with windows automatically updating to new versions and forcing upgrades, IMO the time to do it is when they would otherwise be forced to make a full version change anyway, as the differences between 10 and 11, are probably more than a windows 10 themed linux.
Sounds like a job for KDE Plasma.
And a lot of time customizing
The purpose of windows on a new machine is so you can access the Internet to download Linux.
I did it (mostly). You can too!
