Comment by baka367

Comment by baka367 4 days ago

Win partition will make you want to cry.

Win insists on bootlocker/secure boot, meanwhile most of the Linux doesn’t boot with it or you have to go though hell and back to install unsigned drivers (nvidia, gentle-yall).

I’d all say that Linux is like living in a car with 0 euros and saving up for a house. Simple user can scrape by, but mowing dev work life to Linux is much harder than to Mac. VPNs, inconsistent distro support for weird work stuff and such will make you spend days to weeks of unpaid overtime to get comfortable

int_19h 4 days ago

Linux can handle BitLocker & Secure Boot just fine. The problem with dual booting in that configuration is rather that every time Linux updates the boot loader, Windows will freak out and stop booting until you enter the recovery key for BitLocker. This can be prevented by first booting into Windows to disable BitLocker until the next reboot and then installing the Linux updates, but in practice I find that I forget about it all the time with my dual-boot laptop (which spends most of its time booted into Linux).

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godelski 4 days ago

This is a solvable problem and there's even pacman hooks around to do it for you

But also don't blame Linux. Even your comment says the problem is Microsoft. We need to be collectively mad at the right entity if we're going to get them to change. Otherwise they'll keep bullying people and they've found that they can bully people so much it gives them Stockholm Syndrome, where they feel they can't leave.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Unified_Extensible_Firmware...

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keyringlight 4 days ago

For quite a while I've found that the much easier answer is to have a physical drive per OS and make sure it's the only drive connected during install, or at least one for anything that doesn't play entirely nicely with multi-boot. Obviously there's downsides to that, buying another drive or you might be using something like a laptop which is less friendly to extra drives, dis/reconnecting M.2 drives isn't as trivial as SATA either.

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tapoxi 4 days ago

Bazzite supports secure boot just fine, its actually enabled by default. I'm sure others do too.

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jsheard 4 days ago

Secure boot mainly gets annoying if you have an Nvidia card, since the akmod needs to be self-signed. It's not insurmountable but you have to load your keys into the UEFI before it'll work.

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- tapoxi 4 days ago
  
  Bazzite builds the Nvidia driver into its kernel, so you don't need to do anything special. Post installation it prompts you to do key enrollment, so all the user needs to do is select "Enroll MOK" and type "universalblue".
  
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