Gaming on Linux hasn't been great so far... JayzTwoCents
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The twist, windows updates breaks the linux boot loader if installed on the same drive
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.
The twist, windows updates breaks the linux boot loader if installed on the same drive
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.