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[-] HubertManne@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago

OS is really not making them money anymore. One thing that helped apple make a comeback was intel hosts and encouraging dualbooting and software to run your windows on mac.

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[-] fatalicus@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

It wasn't published September 29th, it was updated then.

It was published back in March. All these pages are on github where this can be verified: https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/linux/commits/main/docs/install.md

[-] Kevadroz@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The performance speed between WSL, virtual machines, and bare metal Linux has become so close that few developers choose this method due to the overhead of needing to restart (reboot) your device any time you want to switch between the operating systems.

And there's the attempt at discouraging you from going bare-metal.

I doubt that "few developers choose this" is true.

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[-] Moonrise2473@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

Actually, the guide doesn't mention how to dual boot, it's how to install Linux bare metal as the only os.

Otherwise they wouldn't have removed the possibility to easily boot Linux from the windows boot manager instead of grub

[-] aprnu@feddit.ch 11 points 1 year ago

not impressed, wanna see how to single boot linux and put windows in virtual machine as a guest

[-] WindowsEnjoyer@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago

I've heard talks that after each Windows update, you have to restore Grub config.

Not the case with me. Had dual boot for some time and never had to fix it... 🤷

[-] Still@programming.dev 8 points 1 year ago

I think people misspeak, windows puts the windows bootloader first after some updates

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[-] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

Pretty sure this means Linus won.

[-] Dirk@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago
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[-] Album@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago

Quietly. Lmao. There headlines.

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