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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
I tried running the games that I need Windork for some time ago, but got fed up tweaking the stuff. I'll give it a try soon.
Btw, I only do PC gaming, no consoles or mobile.
My main gaming device is now a steam deck. I've run on it mostly everything I'm interested in. I reckon I don't like competitive games, so I never tried lol or Fortnite or CoD or anything of the likes, but the deck at home is running from Genshin impact to Final Fantasy 14. No man's sky, assassin's creed odyssey, ff16 demo, and every indie I wanted to play.
And except for games like Genshin impact or honkai star rail (not for me but for my SO) which needed a different launcher and some small tweaking, the rest of the games have been running "out of the box", doing no tweaking at all.