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I have the absolute worst reason for dual booting Linux and Windows (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by Weydemeyer@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I’m currently dual booting Linux Mint and Windows. Love Linux, hate Windows. So why I am dual booting?

Because I own and use a Microsoft Zune HD.

It’s probably the best product Microsoft ever came out with. It’s so much lighter than my phone, it has a ton of my music on there, and it has an HD FM radio tuner. However, the software that runs it has never been released so there aren’t really any good options to try and manage the Zune on Linux (some people have tried, it doesn’t really work). So I keep a windows partition just so I can manage a 16 year old mp3 player and radio. That has to be the worst reason to keep a Windows partition, right?

(The reality is I would probably get rid of the Windows partition if I could, I’ve tried but something seems wrong with the BIOS on my computer idk I’m not a programmer. The Zune software is pretty janky at the point so uploading new music barely works anyway).

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[–] juipeltje@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

For me it's hdmi 2.1 on AMD. Starting to really hate my decision of buying a TV as a gaming display, purely because of how much windows sucks. Just booted it up to see if my samba server was working, only to find it has no internet connection whatsoever. Wifi also connects but no internet access, but i know for a fact it's working because both on linux and my phone it's working fine. Already tried a bunch of troubleshooting, including resetting the adapters competely. I'm starting to suspect the mullvad vpn app somehow fucked something up, because i'm not connected to their servers right now because i haven't added more time to my account. Internet should work if i disable the vpn app though, so idk what's wrong there.

[–] Estebiu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Dp to hdmi cables work. Even 4k 144hz works with them.

[–] juipeltje@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yeah but not with all its features. Usually you have to sacrifice vrr, which is a dealbreaker for me.

[–] brrt@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Not sure if there’s a difference but I have a steam deck connected to a 2.1 capable dock and it works even with VRR (although it sporadically forgets that VRR is a thing and I have to reboot the TV)

[–] juipeltje@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

I don't know what refreshrate you're using, but from my understanding if you go above 4k60hz it doesn't run in full rgb colorspace anymore, because the amd drivers only support up to hdmi 2.0, so even when the hardware supports it, hdmi 2.1 bandwidth can't be used.

[–] kumi@feddit.online 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Internet should work if i disable the vpn app though, so idk what’s wrong there.

I don't suppose you enabled the kill-switch feature?

https://mullvad.net/en/help/using-mullvad-vpn-app#temporarily-blocked-internet

[–] juipeltje@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Yeah it turned out that lockdown mode was enabled. Disabling it fixed the issue. I guess i can't really put the blame on windows this time lol