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Frustrated Windows users are switching to Linux because of Microsoft’s Windows 11 shenanigans (www.theverge.com)

submitted 2 days ago by cm0002@digipres.cafe to c/linux@programming.dev

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[–] binarytobis@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

So fun story, I recently set up Mint to dual boot with windows 10, then shortly later decided it was working just fine and reformatted my whole windows drive. Which included the boot partition that pointed to Mint.

The problem was that I updated my MOBO bios after using a USB to install Mint, and now my USB installer (needed to run Boot Repair) opened to a command line instead of the installer. While trying to find the settings to fix that I restored factory defaults in my BIOS which triggered Secure Boot, which wouldn’t let me turn it off without disconnecting all of my hard drives first (and that is a whole thing with my m.2’s).

Anyway it turns out my USB had gone bad so I made a new one and fixed it, but man I never thought I could break my computer so many different ways at once. Don’t delete your boot loader, guys.

[–] vKing@infosec.exchange 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

@binarytobis @cm0002

So, fun fact;
If you plug a USB drive into a Microsoft computer (or in whatever that has Windows OS running at the time), here's a thing that _can_ happen:

Microsoft checks the content of the USB drive, and in the process attempts to RUN the files. Thus changing the checksum of files.
When attempting to install Linux from one of these files, it _can_ fail the checksum.

This happened to me with Fedora specifically, and I randomly had issues with other distros that I suspect was caused by the same.

[–] binarytobis@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

I’m increasingly convinced something like this is what happened to me.

[–] salacious_coaster@infosec.pub 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, that's my biggest hesitation with recommending Linux to absolutely everyone. It's super easy to install most of the time. But most people are not equipped to work around issues that may come up, and then the computer is as good as bricked until they find help.

[–] binarytobis@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah, the IT barrier to entry is definitely there. Though I would say most reasonably savvy people can handle making an account on the forums and getting some enthusiastic expert support.