Warning to the users of micro$oft product

shubla · Post by **shubla** » Thu Dec 21, 2017 9:24 pm

It will break your linux installation. So better not to use it at all!

Granger · Post by **Granger** » Thu Dec 21, 2017 9:31 pm

You're ca. 10 years late with this.

shubla · Post by **shubla** » Thu Dec 21, 2017 9:39 pm

It didnt break it before, but today I decided to play some games on windows side, because I thought it could do that, apparently it couldnt do that, instead, it installed some update and now everything is broken.

romovs · Post by **romovs** » Thu Dec 21, 2017 10:06 pm

Did it overwrite GRUB or something?
At least it didn't brick your pc, be happy

shubla · Post by **shubla** » Thu Dec 21, 2017 10:30 pm

After hours of troubleshooting I found out that it indeed not only overwrited my GRUB/efi partition, but also messed up MFT's of some of my NTFS hard-drives causing problems while auto-mounting them on startup. Luckily the both issues were quickly resolved and everything (seems) to work now.

I still dont recommend any microsoft products to anyone!
Be careful! When they get grasp of you, its difficult to get rid of their systems.
(still have to use ntfs on some drives because I used to use windows)

Granger · Post by **Granger** » Thu Dec 21, 2017 10:42 pm

shubla wrote:(still have to use ntfs on some drives because I used to use windows)

Put the windows into a VM, put the data behind a samba share.

romovs · Post by **romovs** » Thu Dec 21, 2017 10:50 pm

Can't play games under VM (unless rich enough for two graphic cards).

Granger · Post by **Granger** » Thu Dec 21, 2017 11:17 pm

You should be able to hand the only GPU card into the Windows VM, trick for doing it with only one card is to have a second VM (where you hand the GPU in also) that contains your linux desktop - only one can run at a time though and you need another machine for the initial setup (so you can shell into the then headless bare-metal system containing the host), the boot into the Windows VM can be scripted (terminate the linux VM, spin up windows VM, wait for it to 'poweroff' and then restart the linux one) to be initiated from the linux vm.

romovs · Post by **romovs** » Thu Dec 21, 2017 11:40 pm

Granger wrote:You should be able to hand the only GPU card into the Windows VM, trick for doing it with only one card is to have a second VM (where you hand the GPU in also) that contains your linux desktop - only one can run at a time though and you need another machine for the initial setup (so you can shell into the then headless bare-metal system containing the host), the boot into the Windows VM can be scripted (terminate the linux VM, spin up windows VM, wait for it to 'poweroff' and then restart the linux one) to be initiated from the linux vm.

Like running everything under a hypervisor? Sure that's an option, but as you said only one can run at a time. It's just easier to have a separate Windows disk for games.
Would love to be able to run games in VirtualBox, but alas need to keep a Windows SSD just for playing literally 3 games...

iamahh · Post by **iamahh** » Thu Dec 21, 2017 11:59 pm

https://betanews.com/2017/12/21/canonic ... r-laptops/

Kekonical changing business to bricks

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