Gaming on Linux hasn't been great so far...
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It's been a little while since we did our first Linux video... so today we talk about the performance comparison between Linux and Windows with bonus footage...

Follow-up video to https://lemmy.world/post/32690521

Spoiler alert: the main reason he says the experience “hasn’t been great” is because shortly before posting the video his Linux install mysteriously broke and he had no idea why. Therefore, he recommended dual-booting Windows just in case.

Cue sea of comments explaining that the reason for the error he was getting was that Windows screwed up his bootloader (i.e. the problem was caused by dual-booting to begin with, LOL).

  • dreugeworst@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I’ve been dual booting for ages without any windows-caused issues. is it windows 11 specifically that messes with dual booting or did I accidentally work around it by installing Linux to a separate ssd

    • dustyData@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Different disk is fine. Same disk, Windows is a little colonialist ass and on every update will rewrite the boot partition, screwing up Linux.

      • leMe@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        2 days ago

        no idea if this still applies. but a long time ago i would still dualboot and thought i was smart: 2 smaller exchangable system disks (linux & windumb) + 1 large fixed data disk. during some windows updates it would make the data disk bootable and put its fucking bootloader on it.

        i would get a blue screen while booting linux and the joy of removing a boot partition on my data drive.

        • dustyData@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 days ago

          If the data disk is configured as a primary disks and has a boot section, it will still do that. Windows wants to make sure it will load no matter which disk the PC decides to boot.

    • dafta@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Yeah, if you’ve got two EFI partitions on separate disks and one is for Windows while the other is for your Linux, you’re good. Windows likes to reinstall its bootloader which sets it as the default and sometimes overwrites the Linux bootloader, but not if it’s on a different EFI partition, then it doesn’t “know” about it.