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Gaming on Linux hasn't been great so far... | JayzTwoCents [27:59] (www.youtube.com)

submitted 8 months ago by grue@lemmy.world to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world

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Follow-up video to https://lemmy.world/post/32690521

Spoiler alert: the main reason he says the experience "hasn't been great" is because shortly before posting the video his Linux install mysteriously broke and he had no idea why. Therefore, he recommended dual-booting Windows just in case.

Cue sea of comments explaining that the reason for the error he was getting was that Windows screwed up his bootloader (i.e. the problem was caused by dual-booting to begin with, LOL).

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[–] leMe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

no idea if this still applies. but a long time ago i would still dualboot and thought i was smart: 2 smaller exchangable system disks (linux & windumb) + 1 large fixed data disk. during some windows updates it would make the data disk bootable and put its fucking bootloader on it.

i would get a blue screen while booting linux and the joy of removing a boot partition on my data drive.

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

If the data disk is configured as a primary disks and has a boot section, it will still do that. Windows wants to make sure it will load no matter which disk the PC decides to boot.