Whoever the fuck in windows decided it is a good idea to start doing a 24h+ repair on an external hard drive which doesnt even have the OS, on boot, should burn in hell.

God. I cant handle windows and its stupidity even for the 1 hr i use it to play games.

Windows bad, gib ++ (also I use arch don't hate me)

@Tonnoman0909 this is dev rant isnt it !?

@purist it still has a surprising amount of posts complaining about windows (partially justified), even though it has been said 1 * 10⁹⁹⁹ times

@Tonnoman0909 Well i generally dont hate windows. But recently i had to use it far too often to play games and whatnot. And it is driving me crazy. If a piece of software drives people crazy at such a frequency, then yeah i think it deserves hate on devrant.

Also this happened to 3 hrs ago. That is why i posted it. Been posting too many whatsapp statuses.. so decided this is a better place to vent.

@purist I can completely understand what you mean, I've had my own fair share of bullshit and my daily driver is Linux now

@Tonnoman0909 The repeating rants are because Windows doesn't get better. Actually, it got worse and worse after Win 7. It has become so bad that I put even non-IT family members on Linux.

@Fast-Nop yeah sure

If I want to boot into windows it boots fast for me... But once in the system it keeps ramming my disk at 100% and It's a unusable for at least 15 minutes... And I haven't connected to the internet yet. I have auto-connect disabled because if this shit starts downloading updates in the background while the disk is at 100% for whatever reason it goes from half a second response time to 4 second response time...

I rarely even play games anymore because of this

@Hazarth Oh my god. THIS.. I have to wait literally 20 mins for the disk to get down from 100% to even start playing any game. Steam doesnt even start downloading updates until after 10 mins. It is frustating as fuck on a daily basis when i have to play with friends. I am just wondering what the frick it is doing at every bootup. I have almost disabled everything that runs at bootup, that i could.

In contrast if i bootup xubuntu, the boot process is somehow bugged and takes time, but once i am in, i can directly use anything ( almost.. )

It's to prevent double booting. When wíndows starts it "fixes" all visible drives to be either FAT or NTFS. Everything else is assumed an error. There are ways to hide partitions from Windows but by design there is no way to prevent it from breaking visible ones.

Well, I prefer that than to have 50/50 chance while updating ANY package on linux that it'll break the whole system.

@NoToJavaScript I didnt know all the people in the world using linux are counting on a coin toss. 50/50 lol.. Either you are a troll or you genuinely dont know the difference between apt install and rm -rf / .

Linux breaks sometimes. Windows does too. Honestly cant compare the frequency cos i have been using ubuntu 10 times more than windows.

@NoToJavaScript my rolling release has almost never broken, and I use a bunch of non official packages. When it broke, it was never system destroying and usually a quick fix. Also I have a snapshot system that automatically creates before and after updates (I have never really had to use it, lol).

Consider open suse

@NoToJavaScript I have around 2800 packages installed on Mint, and no update breakage so far. Even if, I could easily roll back via the Timeshift snapshots.

If you go for some super bleeding edge RR distro, then you may have some occasional breakage, but that's your choice.

Just this month, Windows updates shat its image printing btw. - and yeah, if you come from such an ecosystem, your update panic is relatable.

@Fast-Nop also one thing to mention is that you can update when you feel like it (so for example I always update my system early on in the weekend so I can use the time to fix it if necessary).

@homo-lorens yep and it loved to nuke grub on my friends laptop

@matt-jd I found this funny too. Grub is almost objectively a better bootloader and windows loves to ignore it and push its crappy version over it.

I also find it irritating that Windows is the apple of OSes..Windows behaves like they are the only OS capable of running a PC and try to "fix" everything it is not capable of understanding like the ext4 FS and override a running bootloader with one which doesnt recognize linux OSes, whereas Linux ( for accomodating windows users and for something else ) understands that there are people who use windows.

@purist This has been their business strategy ever since Windows is a thing. Breaking everything else so users don't trust anything other than Microsoft products. Windows has always represented computers towards users, it was never built to compete but to oppress all other software. Outliers and those who dare wander into niches that Microsoft populates lose Windows support and are actively damaged on contact.

@purist I have a similar bootloader concept with Windows at the business end of the stick - as layer 8 implementation.