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“Something has gone seriously wrong,” dual-boot systems warn after Microsoft update
(arstechnica.com)
this post was submitted on 21 Aug 2024
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I stopped trying to dual boot entirely with all the problems it caused me. I'm surprised the community universally seems to recommend dual booting as an easy to setup option for beginners.
Easiest way to dual boot is 2 disks, with Linux and grub installed on 2nd disk, and BIOS set to boot to 2nd disk. That way Winblows thinks it is alone in the 1st disk of the system.
Even so had an issue a couple years back that Winblows messed up its own loader, by not placing the boot files in the reserved hidden partition but then configuring the boot as if it did... facepalm Took me a morning of trial and error figuring how Winblows boot to fix it...
Winblows is a cancer, but unfortunately it still is necessary for some gaming.
Only for the kind of gaming that is itself a cancer: the one that wants to install a rootkit "anticheat" on your system.
I have a steam deck since the launch of the device and even stuff like old C&C games run on it. Hell, the little guy is able to run even FF16!
Edit: typo
There are still some obscure games that dont work ( or are hard enough to setup that i couldnt do it ) on linux regardless of anticheat. Sins of solar empire and knights and mechants in my case were particulary problematic if i remember correctly.