Ugh, I gotta boot into Windows later tonight to get some classwork stuff done and it’s gonna want to install crap since I haven’t booted it in a couple weeks. I’m running Bazzite (it’s Fedora based) on another drive and hopefully I don’t have to deal with this, based on what I’ve seen I think my setup will be fine. (Anyone in Minnesota want to sell me an older MacBook for cheap so I don’t have to deal with Windows for six more months?)
EDIT: I just bought a MacBook Pro from Free Geek Portland. Now what’s the best way to keep Windows from updating for the next two weeks?
Now what’s the best way to keep Windows from updating for the next two weeks?
Disable automatic updates with group policy
@brb @AlligatorBlizzard that also poses a great security risk since the majority of updated are security-related, even though they also break stuff
I have windows in one machine and Linux on the other. And never shall the two interact.
Earlier I did duel boot, then I tried vm using windows in Linux , then VM linux in windows. Then I tried windows 11 with wsl. All of them had issues
What were the issues you’ve had with WSL? I’ve been happily using that for a while now.
It did not do background cron tasks over long periods, and, on top of that, the Linux kept crashing after a few hours. Particularly if the machine went to sleep
I had issues installing some things : after I learned to use docker desktop that was not so much an issue though. But, the docker desktop at that time kept crashing due to memory issues .
Additionally I had issues with Kubernetes, particularly the gateway, in windows ,that just worked in Linux
Also I had trouble managing tens of thousands of files in my code editor, phpstorm. I wanted the files on the Linux side but had issues despite running the editor on the windows side or Linux side. I had trouble using Linux tools when managed from my editor.
Also, when I tried it , I had some issues integrating Linux and windows gui together.
I think I would have had more success with all of these if I had more experience with the things that bothered me; and honestly phpstorm has always been a pain.
But I drifted more into Linux land and more or less gave up on windows except for games and connecting to other window machines .
But I was really impressed by the integration of wls, and spent many happy hours
Cost me a few hours and ended up just disabling secure boot in the end. Wish I didn’t need MS for some programs.
Just curious, what programs? I’m obsessed with only using FOSS, maybe I can give you some alternatives.
For me I have to keep a Windows VM around to run payroll software once a month. There is a Linux version of the software but it depends on some ancient glibc, IIRC. It takes up around 50GB of my NVMe, which I’d move it off of if it didn’t already take around 15 minutes for this app to finish loading. All around it is very annoying. The one upside is that while this app is loading it has this ugly always-on-top logo for HMRC but because it’s in a VM now I don’t have to see it.
I did try that years ago, ran into performance issues and other bugs, and it wasn’t worth messing around with when dual booting is so simple. Might reconsider in the future if MS keeps messing up though.
I’ve got secure boot disabled so I’m good.
