• SaintNewts@sh.itjust.works
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    I really hate that Windows does this. Which is why when I decide to switch a machine to Linux it’s the only OS allowed to boot to bare metal. Windows can go in a VM and suck it.

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      Not sure why, but your comment made me think about the first machine I switched to Linux. It was a laptop who’s fan eventually had a bad bearing and needed to be replaced. Luckily it was still under warranty, so I sent the laptop in to get the fan replaced, and received my laptop back with Windows installed on it… I was so livid.

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          Yup, exactly what they said. But I didn’t know any better at the time. These days I would just fix that myself rather than send it to them

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            Yeah, it’s a once in a lifetime thing lol, but it’s better to put that out on the off chance someone reading it may have to send one in.

            I hate to say it, but unless they’re corporate machines or you put it together yourself, computers are basically disposable these days.

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            I mean if you already bought the computer, they’re really just giving it back to you and I’m pretty sure you can just download it.

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              I was mostly being snarky. Windows only comes preinstalled if you buy a full setup. All my stuff is either Mac laptops or custom towers so I always have to acquire a new windows license when I setup a new build for myself or my partner

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                No, yeah I was just being snarky too. I guess builders(probably gamere) are the only real retail windows buyers lol

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        Had something similar happen to me. Something unrelated to the OS or hard drive and they reformatted my drive and I lost everything. I was ballistic when I found that one out.

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      1 year ago

      I want to do this so bad but gaming always stops me. Some anticheat refuses to let you play in a vm

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        Just install windows on a physically separate disk. It doesn’t eat other disks, but might take a bite of other partitions on the same disk (if NTFS is corrupted or misaligned).

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      Depending on your configuration, you can pass a gpu to your Windows VM so you don’t even lose any performance if you use Windows for gaming. All you need is an iGPU and a few extra cores/ram to handle the host overhead.

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      Get a separate disk for windows and you can set up your windows VM to also optionally dual boot into it