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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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Windows just fucked up my bootloader... (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I thought I was safe from this if I installed windows on a completely separate harddrive... I clearly overestimated Microsoft's ability to make on operating system that does not act like literal malware. Oh well! I guess I'm 100% linux now.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

welcome to the club 😂

did it overwrite your GRUB partition or did it just remove the uefi entry?

iirc the later is pretty easy to fix with efibootmgr if you have a live cd / usb

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

the partition was still there, but if i tried to boot from it would just kick me back to the bios. unless there's some obscure grub bug that happened to trigger exactly after i booted into windows i guess...

the fix was pretty simple, i just reinstalled grub from a live environment.