Dual booting with Windows? Beware recent Win update!
Dual booting with Windows? Beware recent Win update!
Microsoft said its update wouldn't install on Linux devices. It did anyway.
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With all their talk about loving Linux you'd think they'd work on not breaking grub all the time.
36 1 ReplyThey love Linux*!
*the windows subsystem for Linux
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I'm glad I deleted that Windows partition since I didn't use it anyways. And in typical Microsoft fashion they don't acknowledge there's even a problem leaving people in the dark. I'm never going back to Windows.
23 1 ReplyI read news like this and I'm so happy I haven't had to touch Windows since Win7
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Is this the new embrace, extend, extinguish?
4 0 ReplyThis is the ongoing story of Microsoft since it started.
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Windows is malware and deserves to be treated as such
4 1 ReplyThis worked for me: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1523353/windows-aug-13-update-broke-my-ubuntu-system The answer from ‘Ivan Ati’
3 0 ReplyAm I right in assuming this only applies to single disks partitioned with both Windows and a Linux distro?
2 0 ReplyNo. Any efi dual boot is affected.
4 0 ReplyEven separate disks? Ouch. I'm guessing Fedora is not impacted here.
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My solution for cases like this is
sudo format c: /q && apt install linux
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