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Re: Howto install dual-boot Windows Linux best method

dummy@example.com (andyp67) — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 01:38:23 +0000

Re: Howto install dual-boot Windows Linux best method

dummy@example.com (steve_v) — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 01:36:53 +0000

Dude, shuddup (or sober up). Your posts are barely coherent at best, and swearing at the admins isn't going to win you any popularity contests.

Re: Howto install dual-boot Windows Linux best method

dummy@example.com (andyp67) — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 01:29:55 +0000

Re: Howto install dual-boot Windows Linux best method

dummy@example.com (andyp67) — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 01:18:13 +0000

Re: Howto install dual-boot Windows Linux best method

dummy@example.com (andyp67) — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 01:16:25 +0000

Re: Howto install dual-boot Windows Linux best method

dummy@example.com (andyp67) — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 01:08:50 +0000

I know what time it is in your locale.

Re: Howto install dual-boot Windows Linux best method

dummy@example.com (andyp67) — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 01:06:15 +0000

Re: Howto install dual-boot Windows Linux best method

dummy@example.com (andyp67) — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 00:49:59 +0000

Boot into bios, f2 or whatever, & boot what you wish.
Your problem is not unique.
It's easy to go via bios isn't it, what a pain in the backside.
Usually one can organise things in bios.

Re: Howto install dual-boot Windows Linux best method

dummy@example.com (pcalvert) — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 21:58:39 +0000

aluma wrote:

I got my hands on a laptop, the Win8 license was stitched into the BIOS. Two disks, 256GB SSD and 500GB HDD. I prepared the SSD, separate sections of UEFI, Windows and Linux.

I recently did almost the same thing. Windows 8 was on the HDD, but it hadn't been updated in years, and my attempts to update it failed. It also looked awful.

I copied a Windows 10 22H2 ISO file to the HDD, extracted the ISO to a directory, and ran the installer (setup.exe, I believe) to upgrade to Windows 10. No license key was required. Then I basically wiped the drive, created a 1 GB EFI partition using Linux, and then did a clean install of Windows 10. Rather than create a new EFI partition, I may have just expanded the existing one using gparted. I'm not 100% certain, but that's probably what I did.

During the clean installation of Windows 10, I also ran a wonderful script called Windows 10/11 Decrapifier. On this laptop, which is about ten years old, it made a very noticeable difference. I use the script's default configuration except for one small change -- I enabled the search bar. Since Windows 10/11 Decrapifier is a PowerShell script, and not a typical Windows program, reading this how-to is a must: How to clean up a single Windows 10 machine/image using Decrapifier.

EDIT:

I had a problem when installing Refracta. The installation appeared to complete without a hitch, but GRUB apparently wasn't fully installed because when I rebooted, the laptop went straight into Windows. I was quite puzzled by that. Eventually, I realized that the most likely culprit was Fast Startup on Windows. I thought that I had temporarily disabled Fast Startup, but it appears that the method I used is outdated and no longer works.

Re: Howto install dual-boot Windows Linux best method

dummy@example.com (andyp67) — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 19:32:45 +0000

If you are a professional photographer, then today you cannot do without more or less new top-end hardware and Win.
Wrong.

Re: Howto install dual-boot Windows Linux best method

dummy@example.com (golinux) — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 18:44:45 +0000

@andyp67 . . . you are ballooning the forum logs with personal ramblings that have no place in a technical forum. Please find a more appropriate venue to do that . . .

Re: Howto install dual-boot Windows Linux best method

dummy@example.com (andyp67) — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 18:20:06 +0000

Re: Howto install dual-boot Windows Linux best method

dummy@example.com (aluma) — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 16:13:23 +0000

If you are a professional photographer, then today you cannot do without more or less new top-end hardware and Win.
Programs that process raw images and use artificial intelligence for noise reduction work under Windows or Mac and cost money.
Actually it has always been like this.

P.S. At one time, Win was needed for Micro-Cap.
It is developed based on open source SPICE. But using Micro-Cap with its “human” interface...

Re: Howto install dual-boot Windows Linux best method

dummy@example.com (andyp67) — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 15:50:26 +0000

I think win7 was probably the best, about a quarter of the size of vista.
I like win7.
Thesedays bill is creating atomic waste, which we will have to get off the planet, ironically will probably need an experimental atomic power station to develop the alloys, it's a work in progress for about three and a half thousand years, I'm not interested.
I'm proud to say that as an artist, I don't have grey matter between my ears, I have a chef salad, after more than a quarter of a century of hard application of effort in Linux, I don't need windows programs.
I'm a photographer, when we get to about 2050/60, maybe, we will nail down the color (US spelling,) balance, which will evolve the human brain. color pictures will be timeless how we percieve monochrome dynamic.
Probably impossible without ffmpeg luma burn.
If I'm abroad and my kit is violently robbed or wrecked, I might need to use artweaver dot de on the fly in an interweb cafe.
Actually now I've turned 55, I have a zero tolerance for violent equipment revision. Wax on wax off. The deepest stratum of your being. You stake your life on your will.
Choices of partitioning tools is very interesting and will always be vital.
Off the top of my head I question that gparted is shoddy.

Re: Howto install dual-boot Windows Linux best method

dummy@example.com (aluma) — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 14:41:28 +0000

Yeah, and Partition Magic was even better.

I can’t say anything about Win; I haven’t dealt with him for a long time. Win7 is installed on my work computer with default settings. I only use it to run programs under Win (sony pbm, etc.).