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Does that mean they're gonna stop eating grub? Becouse I won't dual boot let alone allow windows near my hardware till it stops eating grub
I prefer having Windows safely tucked away on a virtual machine where it can't hurt anything.
You know that could be interpreted as a challenge.
I wouldn't count on it... From Microsoft's point of view, dual booting works as long as you install Windows first - which probably suits them just fine.
I personally haven't seen windows do that in many many years (last time I saw it happen was with windows XP, though I haven't ran dual-boot system with every windows since then, just some).
In my dual-Linux setup though, one keeps trying to get over the other in every minor update.
Last time it happened to me was early in my linux journey (around 2 years ago) with win 10, honestly if I wasn't already extremely pissed off at windows at the time I probably would have given up on linux when it happened, as it was though I instead gave up on Windows and haven't looked back
Doubt it
You have to install Windows first, then your Linux distro.
Doing that has solved all my problems with Windows being a douche
So I'd have to remove my already setup to how I like it OS, install windows, remove all the garbage it comes with, reinstall Linux, and then re set it up to how I like...
Just to "more easily" do VR? Yeah no thanks, seems like far more effort than windows is worth to me
windows hasn't overwritten my uefi settings on major update in 3ish years