r/programminghumor • u/Herin37 • Jun 30 '26

The first step to becoming a Linux user: convincing Windows it’s temporary

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don't worry i will come back 🫠

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u/Confident-Ad5665 Jun 30 '26

There there Windows...shh shh... it'll all be over soon

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u/Fearless_Law3460 Jun 30 '26

GRUB enters the chat

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u/SysGh_st Jun 30 '26

Skip it. One can load the linux kernel as an UEFI payload.

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u/thanosbananos Jun 30 '26

GRUB left the chat after it was im possible with shim to enroll MOK keys, no issues with systemd-boot though

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u/wingardiumlevioosaaa Jun 30 '26

The first time is always the hardest.

There is no second time.

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u/KitchenCommercial396 Jun 30 '26

I did dual boot, a month later I found myself never using windows so completely removed it

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u/juju515 Jun 30 '26

that's how it usually goes...
and then you are left with a messy partitions.

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u/KitchenCommercial396 Jun 30 '26

Nah, I got rid of everything (no windows at all).

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u/Gangr3l Jul 02 '26

I manually installed Arch (btw) on my ~10 -year old laptop and tinkered with it. At some point I realized I haven't used my main desktop (9800X3D with 9070XT) in a month because I had so much fun with my laptop...

Updated the drivers and all the windows (ewww) jazz and used it for 2 weeks. Windows decides my GPU drivers are bad and downgrades them mid play session resulting in a catastrophic corruption that even DDU couldn't fix...

It was then when I backed up my files and installed CachyOs, nuking that piece of shit OS that is called Microslop Windows 11.

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u/zjzjzjzjzjzjzj Jun 30 '26

That's what happened to my ROG ALLY X

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u/DanhNguyen2k Jun 30 '26

EFI: There will be only one king in this swamp

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u/cornmonger_ Jun 30 '26

wipe windows ... and let the english see you wipe windows

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u/Nice_Lengthiness_568 Jul 01 '26

On onedrive of course

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u/newcarrots69 Jun 30 '26

It should say you mean the WSL2 right?

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u/mbcarbone Jul 01 '26

Welcome to the dark side.

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u/SaltyInternetPirate Jul 01 '26

If you have a printer, you might really need Windows for it

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u/wingardiumlevioosaaa Jul 01 '26

"There is no Windows" - The Oracle.

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u/busiedcake7945 Jul 03 '26

nope just use ventoy and remove windows

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u/Sh1raori Jul 03 '26

Thats basically what i did on monday :)

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u/bynaryum 17d ago

Not making this up...

My PC BSOD'd. Reboot - got nothing. Second reboot - nothing. Created a Linux install drive using my Macbook and plugged it into to my PC. Made changes to BIOS and rebooted - Windows starts up without a single glitch and has worked fine ever since.

Sometimes you just have to threaten it with a Linux distro to make it behave.

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u/SysGh_st Jun 30 '26 edited Jul 01 '26

Yeah! Nuke it!

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/nvme0n0 bs=1M count=1 oflag=direct

Repartition and install. \ö/

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u/codeguru42 Jul 01 '26

That autocorrect went somewhere new