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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • Yes, I’ve also read about problems with dual-boot systems after Windows updates, which is why I’ve refused to use Windows too often to make the updates worthwhile.

    Sometimes Windows just overwrites GRUB (or whatever you use on your system) bootloader. But it’s relatively easy to fix using your distro’s installation media. Just in case this happens you need to refer to your distro’s documentation or community forums to fix it.

    I do recommend however in the future to not put Windows and Linux on the same disk, but have 2, each for respective OS. That way, there’s no way Windows will ever touch your Linux bootloader, and you can still allow GRUB (or other bootloader) to chain-load Windows boot manager from the other disk.





  • Why not put it in VM?

    The only thing I’d suggest if you do that is to have at least 32 GB of RAM, because I was in a situations where running few Electron apps, and Win11 VM caused RAM to fill up. But if you’re not running Electron apps you should be fine with 16 GB.

    And if you’re planning to play games, you could use GPU passthrough for near-native performance, but from what I’ve heard it’s a bit hard to set up.




  • You know what? We are beyond fucked. Even if I went with services that are respect all my privacy, I have probably already left (consciously or not) enough info on the internet, for data scrapers/AI tools/whatever to probably know me better than myself, and that’s probably true for any person that have ever used internet.

    Expect a lot of blackmailing in the near future, especially politicians and people in serious positions. Who knows, maybe it’s already happening.








  • I have never used Fedora, but Debian is very stable, or at least as long as you don’t need to use proprietary Nvidia drivers, since I have occasional desktop freezes with them on KDE Desktop (on Wayland).

    Anyway, if you are new to Linux I’d recommend to use Linux Mint instead of Debian, since it’s much easier to install and use, and it is already built on top of solid base of Ubuntu which itself is Debian-based. It theoretically is not as stable, but realistically you shouldn’t come to any issues.




  • They are both fine. There are two big differences between these two:

    • Debian is community based.
    • Fedora is maintained by both - Red Hat (subsidiary of IBM) and its community (The Fedora Project).

    They also use different package managers (Debian - dpkg/apt, Fedora - rpm) and regular Debian releases are generally considered more stable and ‘outdated’ (but I don’t like that term) since Fedora versions are released much more regularly.