• kekmacska@lemmy.zip
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    1 day ago

    it doesn’t let me install linux as dual-boot. I really tried everything you can imagine, always windows boots up

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      6 hours ago

      Out of curiosity what’s your use case for dual booting? I know it’s a common choice for new Linux users and I did it too out of fear that I’d be missing something I need Windows for, but I’ve been completely Windows-free for a while and much happier for it. When I did have a Windows partition I never booted into it.

      For games, Steam’s Proton works pretty well for most games these days. You can check https://www.protondb.com/ to see if your game works well with Proton.

      I’ve also had good experiences with Wine for productivity software. Similarly, you can check https://appdb.winehq.org/ to see how well your program runs on Wine.

      Worst case scenario, if you have a decent enough PC, you can always run a Windows VM and that should run more or less anything.

      And all of these avoid any trouble with Windows eating your grub install etc

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      8 hours ago

      I have observed that many laptops are hard-coded to boot windows whenever possible. Even with windows bootentry missing, firmware will skip Grub set to first priority and start windows. Only way to make them start Grub is to rename bootmgfw.efi to a different name.

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        6 hours ago

        i have msi gf63 thin 9sc. What should i renane it to? and in which efi partition? windows efi or garuda efi?

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          4 minutes ago

          In windows EFI partition, there will be an EFI/Microsoft/bootmgfw.efi file, I usually rename it to bootmgfw.efi.bak and that allows grub to load.

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      1 day ago

      Probably has to do with secure boot and your Linux installation didn’t install a valid shim for uefi to boot it, thus it moves to the next entry which would be Windows.