I don’t know what I did but I must’ve messed up somehow while deleting the distro, so now I only have 700 gigs of my total 1tb of disk space left, when I try to merge the other unallocated 300gigs of space back to the drive, it says “there’s not enough space in the disk(s)”. Anyone willing to help? here are the screenshots:

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Just for my personal curiosity, could you clarify what you mean when you say Linux is “too addicting” for you?

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Share your curiosity.

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https://lemmy.world/comment/130434 I’ve already answered some people

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I see.

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Lol I was wondering the same thing xD

Sounds like they were hooked on ricing their distro, classic mistake. Once you start ricing, you can’t stop lol.

It’s like custom PC building, I thought I was bad in college, spending my food and textbook money on PC parts…now I have a custom water cooling loop that cost me nearly as much as my actual PC :P

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What do you mean «too addicting» ? xD

I’m just curious, that’s the most unusual and unexpected reason to stop using Linux I ever read.

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That was also my first though xD. Yes It can sometimes take time get something working correctly but I largely prefere “wasting” my time learning something than losing time on reddit, tiktok, facebook… whatever your drug is ! Also curious what you mean with “too addicting” !

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I would doomscroll forums, try to solve problems with apps, and try to customize most stuff about my distro, I would stay awake until 7 am i remember accidentally pulling an all nighter once. It wasn’t really healthy for me so I had to quit.

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That… Is interesting 🤔 Linux can be fun but it should foremost just be a way to run your apps, just “be an OS”, nothing more. Choose some well-supported enterprise distro like Fedora or Ubuntu or whatever and just do what you do on a computer, minus customizing it.

I know that’s not how addiction works, but I’m sure there is some way for you to run Linux without having addiction problems. Now you’re resorting to an OS that spies on you and fills you with ads, is that really what you want?

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Well, at least it’s not crack?

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Is that EFI partition still being used? I take it there’s a EFI partition on your windows drive, correct?

What you can do is create a bootable usb with a live linux distro and use gparted to sort out your partitions

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my windows is installed on my C drive so I don’t think it’s used(?)

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Try GParted live iso image.

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He still won’t be able to allocate this to his “Mia” partition since there’s an EFI between those two unallocated spaces. That’s why I asked in my post if that EFI partition is still being used. If his Windows install is on a different drive with a different EFI partition then he can go ahead and delete all partitions on Disk 0 except for “Mia” and grow the “Mia” partition.

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GParted can also move that partition to end of drive.

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I had a run in with this problem, exact same situation. It’s because the disk is dynamic instead of basic. Heres a solution: https://superuser.com/questions/1489311/cannot-extend-drive-there-is-not-enough-space-available-on-the-disk-to-complete

Altough i determined the 200gigs I lost is not worth the (risk) trouble of losing everything else, so I didn’t go with that solution.

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