MachoEagle
MachoEagle
Dangit, and here I am running arch btw
Might need some therapy
Couldn’t agree more xd Yeah, I’ve messed up Grub so many times… Now I know what not to do
This is the best option, I agree. This way you have a dedicated disk for linux and you can copy your data from the old drive.
Still, backup your data if you’re doing any of this.
You could dual boot and access your documents from linux by mounting your windows partition. Don’t forget to backup your data before you do anything, especially if this is your first time doing this.
I’m running linux on my work-issued thinkbook. I also asked the IT guy and he told me I could do whatever I wanted as long as it wasn’t piracy. I originally dual-booted it but then decided to delete the windows partition and now I just run win10 on QEMU/KVM if I need to do anything sharepoint-related.
A technomage reference!! This community is so beautiful. Please keep uploading your art, I’m really enjoying this series!
I don’t know any specific desktop applications, but you could try libre office calc :D
I’m well known for borking my arch installations, not long ago I was struggling with Grub because apparently I have terrible reading comprehension and kept creating a boot partition with boot flags (EFI) and then installing Grub for my BIOS system… Not that I didn’t know it was BIOS, I didn’t know I wasn’t supposed to flag the partition as bootable.
My head still hurts from the constant bashing against the keyboard and the facepalm upon realizing my stupidity.
I still manually partition my system because I’m a control freak. Fortunately I haven’t had to look at partition tables for a long time now.
Archinstall rocks, though installing Arch manually at least once or twice first is an incredibly valuable educational experience. I wouldn’t have known what an fstab file was, and I realized just how important that was when I moved some data from a partition into another with dd. I manually reconfigured the fstab and the dopamine jolt I got from successfully doing that is unforgettable (of course, after 2 hours of scrambling on the internet because I borked something again)
Have you tried QOwnNotes? I think it’s pretty good
Throw in an ‘-rf’ for good measure
Aren’t we all on the same boat here? Thanks for the link btw! That’s a new one I hadn’t seen before.
Yeah, yeah, I get the point. However, how else am I supposed to learn what not to do huh? “Do not delete your boot partition” is not obvious enough, I need consecuences for my stupidity.
You know, I’m in a constant battle with bootloaders. I’ve both deleted grub multiple times and windows boot manager by accident and by believing “I could fix it by re-generating it”… More like re-installing.
>:(