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From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
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Subject: Re: F2FS On USB Sticks?
Date: 22 Mar 2025 22:59:11 GMT
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On Sat, 22 Mar 2025 19:02:23 +0100, Marc Haber wrote:

> rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
>>On Sat, 22 Mar 2025 15:26:55 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote:
>>
>>> At home, many people boot multiple operating systems from the same
>>> disk;
>>> UEFI has made this easier.
>>
>>Dual boot worked find for years before UEFI. When MS went to secure boot
>>in Windows 8 it became a major PITA to dual boot before the Linux
>>distros caught up.
> 
> Dual Boot has always an unstable, fragile PITA. Thankfully we have
> Virtualization now which has Dual Boot mostly obsolete.

With the caveat that Windows seldom sees the light of day after installing 
Linux I haven't had problems with dual boot beyond the initial setup. 
Defraging Windows was the biggest problem. 

It's been a while though. I have access to Windows boxes so there is no 
reason to bother. "Use the whole disk?"  "You betcha!"

The Windows boxes all have a WSL instance anyway.