Hey y’all

I’m taking a college course which is hell bent that its students use Windows 11. Currently my laptop is still using Windows 10 and if there is no bloatware/AI free way to install Windows 11, I’m just going to bite the bullet and install it the regular way. So if anyone knows of a relatively bloatware free way of installing Windows 11, please let me know.

p.s. For those who would encourage me to use Linux. For my desktop I already use Linux Mint.

  • acockworkorange@mander.xyz
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    3 days ago

    I’ve never had trouble with UEFI. I keep people commenting about it, so I believe it happens, I just never experienced it.

    • EpeeGnome@feddit.onlineEnglish
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      2 days ago

      I’ve admittedly got a lot of selection bias, since people don’t tend to bring me their computer when it’s working correctly. I’m sure it usually works fine. Still, the only times I’ve seen a multiboot system suddenly fail, it was Windows’s fault.

    • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      3 days ago

      its not really an UEFI issue but a windows one. unlike BIOS systems, UEFI was made capable to handle this, yet windows fucks it up.

      it also depends on your configuration. on an ESP partition there’s a default bootloader, and per-os bootloaders in directories. if you rely on using the default bootloader, windows will overwrite that from time to time, but it can fuck up the per-os bootloader setup too if it fucks with the list that the efibootmgr command manages on linux. I don’t know whether it does the latter

      • acockworkorange@mander.xyz
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        3 days ago

        I understand the issue just fine, just never experienced it. And I’ve dual booted plenty. I just wish I knew why so I could help other people not to go through it.