This is not the typical post about the superiority of free software with which we Linux users like to preach to converts. First of all, I have no objections against proprietary software in general or Windows in particular. In fact, I like the way Windows 10 is following and I have several Microsoft applications on my smartphone.
The article is about why I made the decision not to use Windows anymore and the reasons why I took it
It turns out that Ubuntu developers made a decision for version 20.10. And that decision means that on my hardware, Windows and Ubuntu cannot share the same disk. So I had to choose.
Of course you could have left Windows and installed another distribution, but there is no guarantee that the other distributions will not follow the same path. You could also have left the entire internal disk to Windows and installed Ubuntu on an external disk. Of course, that way I would have wasted at least 300GB.
Ubuntu's decision
On June 19 it was published this anouncement
With the next 10 changes to the scripts used to produce all installation media, the boot loaders used to boot will change.
Previously we used ISOLINUX with GFXBOOT when booting in BIOS mode. Grub2 when booted in UEFI mode.
With the above change, only GRUB2 will be used to boot the installation media.
This means that the installation experience will be the same, whether the CD-ROM, USB is booted, either in UEFI or BIOS. The same grub.cfg will be used in all cases, and the same menu will be displayed and the same kernel cmdline options will be used.
This will change the way some things appear, however the installer will now behave much closer to the way installed systems boot.
No changes to plymouth, plymouth themes, actual installers.
All existing boot targets will remain supported. However, if you notice that the Groovy installers stop booting after the aforementioned changes land, then please reply to this thread with details of how the installation media is prepared, how it is booted, and in what hardware configuration.
This change affects all flavors.
On my particular team. (a team built on demand in 2012) this change led to the following:
- When I tried to install Ubuntu alongside Windows, the installer gave a fatal error when installing GRUB.
- I tried creating a GPT partition table, the Windows installer told me that Windows cannot be installed with that partition format.
- After creating a GPT partition table from Windows, Ubuntu returns to the problem of the first point.
- By creating a GPT partition table with Gparted or with the Ubuntu installer, the Ubuntu installation goes smoothly.
It should be mentioned that this is a problem with my hardware, it does not have to affect others. And, before they tell me. Already I reported the bug.
Why did I quit Windows
I am the customer
Since I started using Linux I have always kept a partition for Windows for two reasons; hardware and technical service.
The first point hardly needs explanation, it was not always possible to find Linux compatible hardware. The second It was my fear that the technician who was supposed to repair my computer would not know how to find and remedy the problem if Windows was not installed.
The first problem no longer exists. As for the second, I realized that a PC repair technician who does not know anything about Linux is like a doctor who does not know where the liver is. Better stay away.
Linux is the new Windows
The future is heading towards the cloud and containers.All those technologies that are used or are native to or are compatible with Linux. Google Chrome is the new Internet Explorer, and it has a Linux version, therefore, the nightmare of not being able to see sites is in the past.
The software is through the roof
And I'm not talking about the price. Most developers are moving their productsgo to the cloud, starting with Adobe and continuing with Microsoft. Google showed them that this was the way.
Today you have professional quality online services of whatever, video editing, development environments, word processing, games. translation. If your computer has a browser compatible with the new standards, you can use it regardless of the operating system.
I realized that a PC repair technician who does not know anything about Linux is like a doctor who does not know where the liver is
Is it true, did you mean it?
As a computer scientist I feel obliged to expand my knowledge of the digital world, and as a technocratic geek it is part of my passion and my profession, but the latter was very racist, classist and capitalist. And I have met several computer technicians who do know about GNU / Linux but they dread touching it, and is that bad?
PS After you wrote that, I came here to criticize it, the rest seems irrelevant to me and I have no interest ...
You missed calling me a fascist, a nepotist and a beautician.
If you dedicate yourself to repairing computers or doing technical support, you should know not only Linux but also FreeBSD
Nowhere does he speak of races, classes, and economic systems.
That you are a liberal zoocialist and you are offended by anything that does not align with your thoughts does not make other discriminators.
Your comment is simply stupid.
«Racist, Classist and Capitalist»?
OMG! Poor body that has to put up with that brain ...
In my case, the migration occurred due to a philosophical question; that is, the passion and respect for the freedom that GNU / Linux offers me, considered by me as a techno-philosophy.
In my case, the migration occurred due to a philosophical question; that is, the passion and respect for the freedom that GNU / Linux offers me, considered by me as a techno-philosophy.
What a mental straw you've done, hahaha, I don't know where you get that you can't install Ubuntu, along with Windows, because it gives you a grub error. My computer is also from 2012 and the same thing happened to me several times, only that with two Linux distributions, that is, I had a Linux distro already installed and in another partition I wanted to install another and it gave me grub problems, but that happens in Linux many times and nothing happens, you can install it together with Windows and then recover the grub. It has been 5 years since I stopped using Windows and only used Linux on the two computers in my house and it is the best I have been able to do. Game and everything and without problems, I have not missed anything in Windows, but what is said nothing. You have a very big mental straw, you can install any Linux distro next to Windows on computers from 2012 and long before and long after, etc, another thing is that you do not clarify, that you do not know how to do it, etc. You have to have the bios configured, so that it starts in bios or legacy mode, that it is not configured to start in uefi and if it does not have uefi, then even better.
Did you try doing it with Ubuntu 20.10 and Windows?
And no, I can't get the grub back because upon finding the problem the installer stops and doesn't complete the installation procedure.
That you have a mental straw man, that you do not have npi of anything and period, how to say that a computer scientist must necessarily know about Linux and of course freebsd to be a good computer scientist, well no kid, it does not have to, it can be a computer scientist know a Windows egg and no Linux shit and be an excellent computer scientist, among other things because I remind you that Linux is used by four cats and computer scientists need to do something called work and specialize in Windows because that is what they do to feed, it is as if a doctor had to know everything to be a good doctor, well no, they study medicine and then specialize in what they like, the same thing happens with computer science, because it is also very broad. As I say, your problem is that you do not have npi of anything and you think you know everything, because you need a computer scientist so that you can solve any problem in your Windows, hahahahahaha, that already tells me everything, I never need a computer for that , hahaha good and best of all that you stop using Windows because you are not able to install Ubuntu 20.10, which to begin with will still be in beta or if it has already been released, it will be sooo recent and that is why it is very possible that there are problems, in addition If you knew a little about Linux, you would know that the versions to use for daily are the lts, that is, 20.04, which are considered stable, the intermediate ones like 20.10 are to take a look at them and that's it and more if on top They are beta, hahaha, also the world does not end in Ubuntu 20.10, hahaha, I am stunned, I cannot use Ubuntu 20.10 together with Windows and then of course I have to leave Windows, hahaha, to crash, or rather you have problems with installing a beta, what He is normal, there is more life than ubuntu kid and I install the one you want next to Windows without problems, but I don't bother because I don't need Windows at all, walk away ..., hahaha, that there are people with so little idea doing Linux articles on a Linux blog and judging computer scientists without having npi, to piss and not drop let's go ..., hahaha, keep giving your beta 20.10, hahahahahahahaha.
How rude you are my friend.
No one has attacked you. You can disagree with the note and express your point of view (which can be totally valid, of course), but that does not enable you to attack the author.
Too bad there are people like you.
Well, it is a pity that there are people like me who say things to your face, which is why today you are a bad person, because today you can not say anything, I have not been rude, nor have I disrespected him. The lack of respect is that in a Linux blog they have a person like this working, saying nothing but nonsense without rhyme or reason, disrespecting computer scientists, with very trivial arguments and as if he knew, bua la ostia. This is how the world goes with people like him and especially like you, naughty children who have come up with all the comforts and who for any nonsense are already depressed or crying, how hungry would you have to go ...
The article is well explained, it seems that you did not read it all and only skipped parts.
I understand the comment of the colleague, according to the EFI of some motherboards it is a headache to share boot with Linux distros, in fact I play business motherboards that have to be cleaned from the EFI themselves to be able to give way to the Grub2 installer, of which On the contrary, the pc when booting does not see the efi partition to boot, even if it is configured.
Windows 10 has a tendency to latch onto the boot EFI like a tick.
If one day you play DELL or HP (Workstation) equipment you will understand why I say it.
Well, don't fight, it already looks like the Muylinux site.
On the other hand, I recommend you check your hard drive, it could have bad sectors.
Use the DLC Boot 2019, boot with a USB, choose Windows 10 to start the windows laptop that is used for diagnostics, open the disk utilities, start with the CrystalDisk, then a second opinion with the HDTune in the Health option. Do a peak test with that same program called benchmark. This way you will know that the disk has very low bad readings. Then download a Sentinel portable that tells you all about the disk. This way you will draw better conclusions. I wouldn't rule out using a Memtest86 + for RAM problems, let it run for an hour. Lastly, try Ubuntu 20.04, maybe 20.10 is in trouble.
Thank you, I will