• Count Regal Inkwell@pawb.social
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    1 year ago

    Never happened to me. Like ever. And I’ve been on Linux (with occasional dual-booting whenever I’m in a position where I need windows–) for like 15 years now?

    To be honest a lot of stuff people talk about seems to not happen to me and I think I might be exceedingly lucky or smth.

    • BurnedDonutHole@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Same. Never happened to me either. But I usually make a sperate UEFI partition for Linux instead of relying on grub.

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          1 year ago

          That’s actually more safe. Windows can rewrite the UEFI setting to make itself the default again (although that’s of course easy to fix). But it can’t change your BIOS boot order.

          • Tag365@lemmy.world
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            1 year ago

            When I booted into Windows 8.1 on my 2016 desktop computer, it immediately destroyed my boot loader for Ubuntu making it impossible to boot. I can’t confirm if it was BIOS or UEFI though. I had to use a convoluted technique to restore the boot loader for it to load Ubuntu afterwards each time I ran Windows.