• RustySharp@programming.dev
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        11 hours ago

        is how it should be done

        No it isn’t.

        The whole point of partitions is so you can have multiple things on the same drive. Be them data, swap, or… yes, operating systems.

        • GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world
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          9 hours ago

          You shouldn’t be partitioning your OS drive and putting multiple OS’s on it. Terrible practice.

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            7 hours ago

            The best practice is to buy a separate PC for each system and while you are at it, try buying a new house to perfectly isolate both systems /s

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        7 hours ago

        And? Just because it’s a good practice doesn’t mean it’s okay for Windows to go and fuck up every other OS on the drive. There shouldn’t be any technical issues with having two OS on the same drive. What if you just want to test two different OS so you could decide which one to keep? Are you supposed to buy a new drive just because you’ll need it for a month?

        What you’ve said is not an argument why Windows gets to fuck up every other OS that’s on the same drive.

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          9 hours ago

          No one who wants to boot into multiple OS’s should want to have them on the same physical drive. That’s complete idiocy. Zero redundancy, lose all of them if the drive dies.

          New OS, new disk. Every time.

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            1 hour ago

            No one […] should want

            The moment you’ve written those words, you’ve already lost. Because they obviously do want it, and operating systems have supported it for decades, which means it’s perfectly reasonable for people to expect it to continue.

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              43 minutes ago

              MacOS doesn’t. Windows doesn’t. The only one that does is Linux, the one that no one in the grand scheme of things wants to use.

              There are multitudes of ways to use Linux on windows machines already. You can’t install windows onto a machine that already has an OS installed no doubt got a multitude of security reasons.

              • ilinamorato@lemmy.world
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                41 minutes ago

                MacOS doesn’t.

                Anymore.

                Windows doesn’t.

                Anymore.

                The only one that does is Linux, the one that no one in the grand scheme of things wants to use.

                So you think making it harder to use is the right path for greater adoption? Bold strategy.

          • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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            9 hours ago

            That’s cool that you do it that way. But why do you care how other people do it? And like… You seem really fucking emotional about it.

            • GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world
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              9 hours ago

              🤣 playing the old “emotional” card so soon? You have to at least wait until the person says something in a remotely even frustrated way before trying that old chestnut.

          • graynk@discuss.tchncs.de
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            9 hours ago

            I’m glad that you have extra income to buy drive per OS to insert into your PC, but there are these things that are called laptops, and sometimes people have them, and sometimes they have quite old ones and non-extensible ones and you get where I’m going with this?