Microsoft’s latest security update has ruined dual-boot Windows and Linux PCs
The update wasn’t supposed to reach dual-boot PCs.
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Well, you can just fix the bootloader, but that's not super exciting I guess.
People who dual boot are likely to be linux newbies just trying it out. They're more likely to blame linux when microsoft does what it does to competitors.
I dual boot and am maybe considered a newbie. But I’ve had this set up for about a year slowly preparing to stop using Microsoft crap. It’s part of a longer path to digital privacy that was kicked into gear when the win 11 update made my Wi-Fi card disappear, like gone- like it was never installed. Fuck HP and Microsoft
Ironically I had disabled secure boot to try another distro. Was going to drop Ubuntu for something else, still might but no rush, plenty to learn.
It's not just about privacy. Linux and open source communities are a safespace for a novel way of doing things.
I’ve noticed that, I also appreciate you can kinda tinker which I appreciate. It’s wild being so accustomed to the limited control you have from using windows and mainstream software
As a noob myself I can suggest KDE Neon. It's quite similar to Windows. I switched 2 of my machines over and when the security updates stop for Windows 10 my gaming machine will switch also. I'm very satisfied 6 months in.
OpenSUSE Tumbleweed is another good distro that uses KDE.
That's not necessarily true, I dual boot and I've been using Linux for my main OS for about 15 years now. I rarely use mine but it is useful/needed occasionally.
Hence "are likely to be," not "are always."
Your assessment of probability is speculation and I didn't suggest you meant "always".
Your assessment of probability is speculation
It is, but anecdote is insufficient to counter it.
I blame Linux distributions for not updating when the security vulnerability has been fixed for years a little more than I blame Microsoft for untrusting old vulnerable software versions. That said, failing to figure out if it is dual booting or not when there are multiple ways of doing it was not really a surprise.
(I also remember when some Fedora ISOs were unbootable immediately after release a few years ago for similar issues, they hadn’t updated shim or similar)