I thought I was safe from this if I installed windows on a completely separate harddrive… I clearly overestimated Microsoft’s ability to make on operating system that does not act like literal malware. Oh well! I guess I’m 100% linux now.
I thought I was safe from this if I installed windows on a completely separate harddrive… I clearly overestimated Microsoft’s ability to make on operating system that does not act like literal malware. Oh well! I guess I’m 100% linux now.
Is it just me or does no one actually know how any of it works, and everyone relies on a mixture of
grub-install,os-prober,Boot Repair,bootcfg, and random internet guides to make it all work? I dual boot windows and linux and I don’t understand where any of the boot files actually live or how they function. It feels like the deeper I dig, the more nondeterministic it all is.EFI booting is pretty straightforward, and you can mount and browse the efi boot partition easily to see the actual executable files, and view the entries added to firmware to point to them with efibootmgr.
MBR booting was not so fun.
There are resources out there to learn exactly what’s going on, and the process is not too complex.
I’ve recovered a bunch of nuked MBR records and broken boot partitions myself, and maybe things UEFI added some complexity, but it’s not hard if you have a live USB ready and know the appropriate conjurations.
Most of the fun comes from self centered arrogant companies that make monocultural software, blatantly ignoring that other OSs may already be installed.