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What Microsoft’s Borking of Grub Says About Redmond’s ‘Love’ of Linux
FOSS Force ^ | 27 August 2024 | Christine Hall

Posted on 09/10/2024 3:50:11 AM PDT by ShadowAce

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1 posted on 09/10/2024 3:50:11 AM PDT by ShadowAce
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2 posted on 09/10/2024 3:50:26 AM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack )
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No surprise.

And all B. Gates can think of is more vaccines to kill mankind with.


3 posted on 09/10/2024 4:01:21 AM PDT by Texas Fossil (Texas is not about where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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To: ShadowAce
Just Micro$oft being Micro$oft.


4 posted on 09/10/2024 4:48:09 AM PDT by Pythion.net
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To: ShadowAce

Borking of grub.

Sounds like something Lewis Carroll would write.


5 posted on 09/10/2024 4:50:45 AM PDT by Doctor Congo
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I use Manjaro Linux with doesn’t use Secure Boot so my duel boots were/are OK well until Microsoft finds a way to screw it up


6 posted on 09/10/2024 4:56:44 AM PDT by butlerweave
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Why even use Microsoft at all?

I'm a hypocrite but I have to use it for work.
7 posted on 09/10/2024 5:05:39 AM PDT by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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Why even use Microsoft at all?

The best way is not to dual-boot, but to run Windows in a VM under Linux.

8 posted on 09/10/2024 5:06:47 AM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack )
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How does Windows perform under a VM under Linux? Can it do any heavy lifting?


9 posted on 09/10/2024 5:08:28 AM PDT by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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Why even use Microsoft at all?

For a few games I can’t run on Linux


10 posted on 09/10/2024 5:09:49 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Doctor Congo

“Borking of grub.”

I heard Biden wanders through the White House at night muttering that phrase.
Borking of grub., Borking of grub., Borking of grub.


11 posted on 09/10/2024 5:11:40 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Have you seen Joe Biden's picture on a milk carton?)
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I love that Microsoft = Bill Gates to almost everyone. You know Gates hasn’t been associated with Microsoft for over 10 years, right?


12 posted on 09/10/2024 5:29:15 AM PDT by rarestia (“A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.” -Hamilton)
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How does Windows perform under a VM under Linux? Can it do any heavy lifting?

It really depends on your hardware, I guess.

My workplace uses 5,000-6,000 Windows VMs for some serious work. But the hardware is quite beefy as well.

13 posted on 09/10/2024 5:42:07 AM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack )
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"Why even use Microsoft at all?"

Because in the business world, Microsoft owns the desktop. Before retiring, I was an analytical chemist. ALL high-end chemical analysis instrumentation runs on top of Windows. Gas chromatograph, mass spectrometry, etc, etc.

Ny wife is also a chemist, and is still working from home part time. The proprietary data analysis software she uses runs on, guess what, Windows. Since I am her in-house hardware/software support that means that I run Windows as well.

Once she actually retires, all machines will become Linux the first week...

14 posted on 09/10/2024 5:48:22 AM PDT by Wonder Warthog (NRA Life Member)
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My games and photoshop and other windows only software do not run well under vm unfortunately. I dual boot into windows 7 and don’t allow windows down to connect to internet.


15 posted on 09/10/2024 5:55:57 AM PDT by Bob434
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For those who don’t want to install and use Virtual Machine did you run across a solution to this MS Update problem? Other than risking the potential chaos of System Restore?


16 posted on 09/10/2024 5:56:43 AM PDT by MikelTackNailer (had too much to think last night)
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To: ShadowAce

I use W7 and W10, and my older system doesn’t use Secure Boot, so this won’t affect me or my dual boots with Linux, but still, it just goes to show how Gates and Microsoft wants to dominate everything. I’m almost to the point where I will not even need Windows so when that time comes, I’ll be solely Linux. Forget Gates.


17 posted on 09/10/2024 6:27:59 AM PDT by ducttape45 (Jeremiah 17:9, "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?")
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Microsoft has not confirmed the cause of the issue. Ars Technica notes that you can work around the issue by deleting the SBAT that was shipped on Tuesday, August 13, 2024. Doing so requires disabling secure boot temporarily but then reenabling it after deleting the SBAT.
18 posted on 09/10/2024 6:30:01 AM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack )
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I bought a couple of new laptops and want to do just this. I’m officially done with Office too, forever. I need to come up to speed on Linux. It’s time.

Anyone know a good place to get educated about it in a more or less elegant fashion?


19 posted on 09/10/2024 6:50:13 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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Believe it, or not, Most programs run FASTER running through VM on Linux. It even BOOTS in about 10% of the time it would a normal boot.. at least on my system.
Most of that is because Linux isn’t the resource hog Winblows is.


20 posted on 09/10/2024 6:55:03 AM PDT by Bikkuri (I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
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