i very much prefer separate boxes, but i do have one dual boot system, and i let windows do it instead of grub. it sucks, basically booting windows up just to get the boot menu to switch to linux, but hey. it works. even survived an 8->11 ‘upgrade’ intact.
If I had to dual boot, I’d be doing it with hot-swappable drives in enclosure bays. The Linux system drive would never be physically attached to the computer when Windows was running. Windows would have no way to even know it was being dual booted.
But Microsoft removed the “start Linux” option from their bootloader in windows 10 and higher when booting in EFI mode. Maybe you’re still booting in CSM mode and you patched w11 to allow this? (W11 doesn’t support csm mode)
You must have missed that the Windows version/implementation of SecureBoot … and/or BitLocker… have had various NSA backdoors for years.
Thats why shit seems to keep breaking in new crazy ways: Whoops, that backdoor got found out, time to rollout a new one, via a Windows update, that can overwrite your bootsector, on its own, whenever it wants to.
They keep fucking with the bootloader and breaking most dual boot configs because they don’t like the idea that they will not always be able to tap your computer via a secret warrant issued by a secret court.
You can’t build in a backdoor as a reliable method of spying on people, because people who aren’t supposed to know its there will figure it out in… not actually very much time.
There are very good reasons why huge chunks of the EU has their government agencies throwing out Windows.
i very much prefer separate boxes, but i do have one dual boot system, and i let windows do it instead of grub. it sucks, basically booting windows up just to get the boot menu to switch to linux, but hey. it works. even survived an 8->11 ‘upgrade’ intact.
If I had to dual boot, I’d be doing it with hot-swappable drives in enclosure bays. The Linux system drive would never be physically attached to the computer when Windows was running. Windows would have no way to even know it was being dual booted.
But Microsoft removed the “start Linux” option from their bootloader in windows 10 and higher when booting in EFI mode. Maybe you’re still booting in CSM mode and you patched w11 to allow this? (W11 doesn’t support csm mode)
You must have missed that the Windows version/implementation of SecureBoot … and/or BitLocker… have had various NSA backdoors for years.
Thats why shit seems to keep breaking in new crazy ways: Whoops, that backdoor got found out, time to rollout a new one, via a Windows update, that can overwrite your bootsector, on its own, whenever it wants to.
They keep fucking with the bootloader and breaking most dual boot configs because they don’t like the idea that they will not always be able to tap your computer via a secret warrant issued by a secret court.
You can’t build in a backdoor as a reliable method of spying on people, because people who aren’t supposed to know its there will figure it out in… not actually very much time.
There are very good reasons why huge chunks of the EU has their government agencies throwing out Windows.
Google locking down Android is the same thing.