On Mon, 14 Jul 2025 10:11:37 -0400, Cousin Ricky wrote:

> I learned the hard way that they're starting to build Windows computers
> that are incompatible with GNU/Linux dual boot.

Microsoft has never been particularly "friendly" with dual booting non-MS 
operating systems.  "Fast boot" certainly wreaks havoc with trying to dual 
boot, since it's essentially a "suspend to disk" type of functionality 
that bypasses the boot loader.

The introduction of secure boot also created problems, but Linux makers 
have adapted.  I run openSUSE Tumbleweed here, and it is fully supported 
for secure boot, and the modern grub bootloader can be used to dual boot 
Windows (with openSUSE's implementation, it generally will detect Windows 
and add it to the boot menu).

That said, I haven't used a Windows native partition on any of my personal 
PCs in years.  Got a few older machines and laptops that have ancient 
versions of Windows on them "just in case" (because updating firmware on 
those systems required Windows back then).  My main system now has never 
seen a local Windows installation (only in VMs for the rare times I need 
something very Windows-specific, like working on a presentation with a 
Powerpoint template that Libreoffice just won't work with).


-- 
"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and 
besides, the pig likes it." - George Bernard Shaw

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