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[-] SaintNewts@sh.itjust.works 165 points 1 year ago

I really hate that Windows does this. Which is why when I decide to switch a machine to Linux it's the only OS allowed to boot to bare metal. Windows can go in a VM and suck it.

[-] transientpunk@sh.itjust.works 74 points 1 year ago

Not sure why, but your comment made me think about the first machine I switched to Linux. It was a laptop who's fan eventually had a bad bearing and needed to be replaced. Luckily it was still under warranty, so I sent the laptop in to get the fan replaced, and received my laptop back with Windows installed on it... I was so livid.

[-] BeMoreCareful 51 points 1 year ago

Never send them the drive.

They are probably required to boot to the desktop for qa

[-] transientpunk@sh.itjust.works 33 points 1 year ago

Yup, exactly what they said. But I didn't know any better at the time. These days I would just fix that myself rather than send it to them

[-] BeMoreCareful 18 points 1 year ago

Yeah, it's a once in a lifetime thing lol, but it's better to put that out on the off chance someone reading it may have to send one in.

I hate to say it, but unless they're corporate machines or you put it together yourself, computers are basically disposable these days.

[-] transientpunk@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, that is really sad. I'm actually due for a new laptop soon, I'm just very thankful that Framework exists now.

[-] tdawg@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Cheeky way to get windows for free?

[-] BeMoreCareful 7 points 1 year ago

I mean if you already bought the computer, they're really just giving it back to you and I'm pretty sure you can just download it.

[-] tdawg@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I was mostly being snarky. Windows only comes preinstalled if you buy a full setup. All my stuff is either Mac laptops or custom towers so I always have to acquire a new windows license when I setup a new build for myself or my partner

[-] BeMoreCareful 1 points 1 year ago

No, yeah I was just being snarky too. I guess builders(probably gamere) are the only real retail windows buyers lol

[-] Johanno@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Just install it without a key.

[-] SaintNewts@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago

Had something similar happen to me. Something unrelated to the OS or hard drive and they reformatted my drive and I lost everything. I was ballistic when I found that one out.

[-] YIj54yALOJxEsY20eU@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

That pissed me off

[-] AbsolutelyNotCats 16 points 1 year ago

That's the way to go

[-] panja@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

I want to do this so bad but gaming always stops me. Some anticheat refuses to let you play in a vm

[-] SirQuackTheDuck@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Just install windows on a physically separate disk. It doesn't eat other disks, but might take a bite of other partitions on the same disk (if NTFS is corrupted or misaligned).

[-] lemmyseizethemeans@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Defective by design. I really hate windows but need it for Ableton.

Can I boat off Linux USB and run an MBR recovery program or something?

[-] olympicyes@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Depending on your configuration, you can pass a gpu to your Windows VM so you don’t even lose any performance if you use Windows for gaming. All you need is an iGPU and a few extra cores/ram to handle the host overhead.

[-] oldGregg@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Get a separate disk for windows and you can set up your windows VM to also optionally dual boot into it

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