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Just don’t have windows installed.
Yep, you learn how to get things done. If your goal is to use something that’s strictly for Windows, then probably you should be using Windows. Same as MacOS, same as Linux, and same as any other OS out there. Same things could be said for touch screen vs. MnK vs. controller.
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That’s a bit extreme. I keep a windows install around, just in case. It’s just not in grub; I have to get into the bios boot menu and manually select it.
Is dual booting really that common? Whenever I need to test something on windows I just use a vm
Probably just the recent converts that are still 1 foot in and 1 foot out. I don’t keep a Windows VM. If something ever came up over the years, I have to decide if it’s worth setting up a VM. I think even 3 years back, I was able to update my PS5 controller loading up the update tool in WINE (Bottles). Didn’t even need a Windows VM then.
Is there a good word editor on Linux? Because libre office qt lags crazy on plasma wayland, doesn’t have auto lists, or horizontal line, requires an extra package for spell check, and OnlyOffice is missing basic formatting, like horizontal lines, has memory leak issues too, and doesn’t even allow selecting multiple words at a time. Srsly double clicking selects a word, but dragging unselects it.
Because libre office qt lags crazy on plasma wayland
Ok, you’ve got something going on with your system. If LibreOffice and VMs are lagging on your system then something isn’t right.
“wow, I haven’t been booted in months, better get those updates going”
Mine isn’t enabled by default but boots in like 5 seconds… Got an M2
Also when you intentionally boot into windows and it requires at least 7 years and 9 reboots before getting ready.
I had no idea things were that absurd, that bad. I’ve not really used windows for over 2 decades. Many of the comments here are unintentionally funny. And tragic. In a Stockholm Syndrome sort of way.
More than 51 years if there’s one of those updates that will randomly decide to overwrite the UEFI removing your bootloader entirely :P
This is why it’s always best — if you absolutely must have Windows — to keep it quarantined on its own drive.
I see some comments trashing dual boot, I really don’t understand why. I have really nice setup with Debian 12 and Windows 10. Boot pc, get to work on Linux, and other projects after. When I’m done and want to game a bit I switch to windows.
I have no need to setup funky VMs to bypass games made strictly for windows, and also don’t have performance limitations.
Just use the right tool for the right job folks.
I see some comments trashing dual boot, I really don’t understand why.
Back when I dual booted, every Windows update was a dice roll whether and how it would decide to fuck up my dual boot setup.
Sometimes it decides to “fix” grub. Sometimes it wanted to encrypt something new to protect me from all the theives that wander through my living room. Sometimes Windows just had an update that was 1000% sure that Windows was the default boot entry, and so doing something extremely sensitive and rebooting to finish without telling the user, should be fine.
Windows under dual boot, for me, was like having a fragile semi-suicidal pet. I found myself doing constant research to rescue it from itself.
Eventually I did let it die.
So I’m not mad at it, exactly. I’m just over it.
