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⚠️Collection of Articles

⚠️Linux/FOSS can damage hardware or firmware

🪤Linux Community Advice Breaks Windows

🫃Mixing Apps Bloats LiGNUx

😎Linux running servers isn't a brag

👾Is Linux Running Games Near Windows Performance Impressive?

🚮Wasted Ram on Different Toolkits and Distro-Agnostic Packages in Linux

🛰️Critical ISS Systems do NOT run Linux

⚠️Abandoned Software is Dangerous (and common on Linux)

🧻FOSS Devs Quit and Sellout on Unappreciative Userbase

⚠️Firmware Flashing is Riskier on Linux

💊Linux Community Toxicity Ties Directly into Inferiority Complex Psychology

👍The Positives of Telemetry

👾Failures of Proton

⚠️How Linux Stores Browser Passwords is a Security Issue

💊The Psychology of Conspiracy Thinking

🤬Rabid LiGNUxers Ignorantly Get Angry at Devs

😳Does Linux Dominate SuperComputers? -Yeah, but So What!

😎Linux Myths Compilation

⛪The Linux Cult - Religious Parallels

😎Before Wayland: “Linux is secure, Windows is insecure.” -(Selective Dishonesty)

⏳Why Wayland is Taking so Long

😎Major Desktop Applications Missing on Linux

⚠️Sudoedit vs Edit as Root

😎Linux is NOT Great for Developers

😎Kernel Level Anti-Cheat is fine!

⚠️The Privacy / Security Paradox

⚠️Linux Storing Passwords as Plain Text

😎How to Continue Using Unsupported Windows Online on Old Hardware

😎Don't Trust Desktop Marketshare

💊Piracy is Less Harmful than GPL

😎The Most Influential Formerly‑Proprietary Projects that Became Important to Linux

🤬GNU Holds Linux Back (Directly)

💊It is Linux Fault -Why OEMs, Apps Don't Support Linux

🔐 Secure Boot + TPM 2 vs. Linux Alternatives

🛠️Checking for Linux Hardware Compatibility is Bullshit!

🤪Distro-Hopping Madness!

⚠️The Myth of Linux Security

👾Linux Gaming: The Roast It Has Earned

💊 Linux is Better for Old Computers?

💊Linux Sucks at its Core

💊Lies told about BSD to retain support of cult

💊FOSS Apps Run Better on Win/Mac

🤪Isolation is Dangerous!

💊Linux Sucks -Even the Kernel

😎Haiku for Older Hardware

💊Linux Wastes Power - Even on Servers!

💰Linux Costs More

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[–] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Have to boot to Windows to fix it

Add it to the list of things that have literally never happened. A Linux LiveUSB/LiveCD? Sure

[–] theredknight@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Most of this sub sounds like how old people explain tech problems badly. It's clear they can't be bothered to search and find out what is going on.

Linux will let you break it. It isn't meant for people who can't be bothered with learning or consequences but insist on being superuser.

[–] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Most of this sub

It is literally one single human being lol

[–] bratorange@feddit.org 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How do u want to repair Linux from ur windows system? There is not even a way to mount ext / zfs / btrfs / … into windows…

[–] madthumbs@lemmy.world -2 points 2 years ago
  • WSL access to CLI as admin

  • troubleshoot hardware issues

  • use bcdedit /set {bootmgr} path \EFI\ubuntu\grubx64.efi to fix bootloader issue

  • can disable fast startup

  • create a boot repair USB

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

You don't need to tell us you don't know what you're doing, because it's blatantly obvious.

[–] CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I dual-booted for almost five years. Never once did I have to boot to Windows to fix Linux. Sometimes I'd have to boot to Linux to fix Windows or boot to a Linux live USB to fix the bootloader that Windows broke. But never did I have to use Windows to fix Linux.

The very idea of using Windows to fix Linux seems absurd.

[–] Jesus_666@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I can see two scenarios:

  1. You have an NTFS partition that got borked. Linux isn't very good at repairing those so you might have to boot into Windows.
  2. You managed to make your Linux unbootable and need Windows to download a live USB image.

And that's it. Windows is less useful for fixing Linux than vice versa.