“Something has gone seriously wrong,” dual-boot systems warn after MS update
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Shim is really only required on Linux when dual-booting, and really only because the entire Trusted Computing Platform architecture is not user-centric and is designed around the needs of Microsoft more than any other entity. But because they at least paid lip-service to users, you have the ability to just eliminate Microsoft keys entirely on your system and go all-in on custom Secure Boot w/ Linux. I am hard-pressed to find a reason for any moderately technical user to still be running Windows in 2024, as most important productivity tools are primarily or at least optionally web-based, and Linux is significantly better in every other capacity.
Here's a good litmus test for a company we're considering joining: do at least their engineers (if not their PowerPoint+Excel biz people) use Linux for their laptops, not only for their servers? If they do use Linux, I'm just going to assert that they're likely more clueful than average.
Similar with startup hiring. Two options for this: (1) give a resume-screening boost to people who seem to have bought into Linux; or (2) announce in your job posts that the company pragmatically uses Linux for everything, to attract people who see that as clueful, and scare away a lot of others.
(Unfortunately, #2 also alienates some mostly-clueful people who really like Macs, and maybe even some clueful people who, through some cruel accident of history and gaming rigs, only know how to do Windows.)
(Actually, even more than Linux, I suspect that a startup using a BSD would probably be more technically clueful than the average Linux shop. Because some fringe tech seems to attracts the smartest and/or best-motivated techies disproportionately. But I'd say Linux is a sweeter spot overall for more startups.)
The fact is that Windows has leagues more control features (Group Policy, etc.) than Linux does, and those features are required for any kind of sane management of an IT landscape, and are also required in many industries for compliance reasons. And no, Ansible etc. is not the same thing.
The better way to evaluate is to discuss why they chose that tool for any particular job. Linux is often the right answer for servers, and Windows often the right answer for end user computers. But there may be cases where a specific case is better suited to a different tool.
One comment in, and I think the litmus test is already working well.
For planning, Jira is king and available as a web app.
Becoming a Linux user is great, becoming a Linux/Windows/Mac/TempleOS/etc. zealot is not.
Yes you can, the Gandhi/Swadeshi way.
i dont know if this is : some recent intel microcode affecting 11gen somehow? wayland gnome? tracker-miner-fs3 3500 sql errors per second... is this the problem or symptom? ubuntu delaying 24.04 updates from 22.04... guess i just wait a month in case that helps, did upgrading my framework bios make it worse or better? it happens to be more common when opening youtube tabs... is this some kind of malicious youtube vs uBlock war bullshit? NO idea how to troubleshoot this kind of low level full lockup that i haven't learned in 20 years of linux experience (not enough desktop experience i guess)
On the plus, i did learn about alt+print-screen+ (R E I S U B ) which is a horrifying thing to remember, let alone need to use it
It's my primary tool really, and it affects all the others!
For me, though, if they won't let me run Linux, then I won't work for them.
Might as well disable secure boot if that's not a concern, or make sure the boot loader is up to date if dual booting Windows 11. I can't imagine new machines shipping without SB.
I understand there's some performance differences, obviously. And VM requires perhaps a bit more setup and understanding.
However, is it reasonable to VM Win-11 to mediate SB concerns AND be able to have access to basic windows software and services since they're used a lot by industry and universities?
i.e. that is I just need access to Onedrive and MS office for the most part.
If you want to run games, then dual-booting may be necessary if proton won’t work for the game you want to run in Linux.
> Two graphics cards.
> Hardware that supports IOMMU.
> A monitor with two inputs or multiple monitors.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_IOMMU-supporting_hardw...
Plus implied quite a bit of technical knowledge. I think dual-booting might be easier.
This isn’t technically required, but does make things easier (search “single gpu passthrough). However, an integrated gpu for the host + separate gpu for guest for games is also an option and many modern AMD systems come with an integrated gpu.
> A monitor with two inputs or multiple monitors.
That’s not really necessary, you can use a hdmi splitter or just plug the active gpu in (I mean, if you’re dual booting you can only access one system at a time, so shouldn’t be an issue — you can plug an extension cable into your monitor so that and have a dedicated cable for each gpu, that way you don’t need to mess with plugs at the devices — I actually did this for a while to share my monitor with a games console)
Yes, it’s not the simplest thing to set up, but it does avoid the issues down the OP while still allowing gaming.
Personally, I never bothered because everything I want to play works on proton.
... Or hack NVIDIA gpu's and potentially brick your 2000$ card...
Looking for certain files on a random partition? A list of distros and versions? A partition type? Anything seems to be error prone and likely to miss something.
My concern with using Nix on Mac is that the uninstall is not as good so you can’t just comment out something and the Mac will just eliminate it from your system and it will be gone, but I’m considering switching to Nix darwin as well. Let me know how it goes for you!
[1]: https://determinate.systems/posts/determinate-nix-installer/
When I said uninstalling, I mean the way you can just comment out a program in the configuration file on a nix system and poof it is no longer installed in your system and it’s like it was never installed at all.
Note though that i'm not sure how well it integrates with Mac as a Desktop. I've not tried it to install desktop apps. I only use it for term oriented apps/libs/etc, and for that it works as you'd expect.
Not sure what the best possible Nix UX is for Mac desktop apps.
I’m optimistic that the M4 chip based Macs will have better IO across the line and better RAM specs for AI, and overall not get us sucked into upgrades for no purpose. If you use multiple displays, you basically have to get pro or ultra chips, but rumor is M4 will offer way better options in this regard with more display engines and thunderbolt ports.
Someone who doesn't care that /usr/bin is on a READ ONLY partition... (and no you can't change it.)
I think it's obvious why Microsoft has only recent patched the issue: because Linux distros really lag behind on se curie issues like these. Hence the warning some people receive: they're still using a vulnerable boot configuration that was fixed two years ago.
In a similar vein, Microsoft waited a year before automatically releasing a secure boot related patch that affected Windows, so system administrators wouldn't be blindsided: https://msrc.microsoft.com/blog/2023/05/guidance-related-to-...
The impact of these patches is minor for most consumer devices, but for corporate environments where IT may need to go around entering Bitlocker recovery keys in some edge cases (and where recovery media needs to be made using a recent ISO or it won't work), people need a reasonable time to prepare.
I have considered it obsolete and I have stopped using it more than a decade ago.
For the purpose of booting multiple operating systems on the same computer, including with multiple versions of the Linux kernel, I just keep a set of small USB memories, one for each operating system that I want to boot, which are formatted with FAT32 and which contain, in the case of Linux, the kernel, the initramfs file and syslinux to boot them.
This is much safer and much more foolproof than having a multiple boot configuration on the computer, which can be damaged by Windows at any time.
Even for people who do not want to boot from external memories, GRUB is not needed, because now multiple boot can be done from the UEFI menu, which can boot directly a Linux kernel without any extra boot manager.
In that scenario syslinux is doing the work of grub. There is nothing about grub inherently saying you need to multiboot with it.
I don't know why it failed but it did and Grub saved the day.
get rid of secure boot, more problems solved
if you run Windows in 2024 you deserve all the misery you get
To each their own. I'm rooting for linux desktop to be the future though. For gamers, for photo editors, artists. All of us.
I really would like to use just linux many years, but I cannot because I'm unable to compete without Adobe software.
It's good, but besides Premier I really don't think many of Adobe's products are hot shit nowadays. You can do most of the same compositing you do in Sony Vegas with Blender and Davinci Resolve; today's tools are diverse enough that you don't need Adobe. And for music production and photo editing, I don't even think Adobe is a competitor. Affinity Photo eats Photoshop's lunch, and everyone else that wasn't going to pay for a photo editor can use GIMP or Photopea.
Unless you explicitly work at an Adobe-only shop, I really see no reason to continue using modern Adobe products. The value is just so bad compared to what you can buy elsewhere.
Adobe product has dynamic-links between each others, so you can easily make cut in Premiere, motion graphic in After Effects with assets from Photoshop, sound and music in Audition and all changes are visible instantly in one project.
For photography unfortunately all other editors are impractical, except Capture One which has even worse price policy.
Don't let me start with collaboration with other studios or plugin compatibility.
While Affinity might be true alternative for Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator, it is not compatible with linux.