So within the last few months I discovered that some security changes in grub disabled os-prober's ability to locate windows partitions, making it ABSOLUTELY FUCKING USELESS TO ME on my main PC. I have to go into bios to boot between operating systems and it's fucking annoying. (1/?)
I've been trying to use rEFInd in place of grub, and it would work just find if Windows didn't have a habit of randomly nuking it... forcing me to go back to bios. (2/?)
The thing is, I could live with that, if there were a setting that forced my bios to take me to the boot chooser menu by default any time the machine rebooted, but it doesn't. So I have to frantically press F12 (that's the key that takes you directly to the partition chooser instead of taking you to the general bios menu) to get it to come up. (3/?)
And despite having used Linux since... er... well it's been a minute, this is the persistently stupid thing that Linux has always done that makes me want to throttle people. Yes, Linux has no obligation to cater to the Windows environment, but it's taken away a thing that worked and replaced it with... not a single goddamned thing, other than a shoulder shrug and a cheery "good luck!" (4/?)
Turning os-prober back on doesn't help. It *sometimes* finds Windows 11, and it *sometimes* adds an entry to the grub menu, but when it does that the menu entry never *works*.
If ever there were a time I was tempted to believe that Microsoft was hiring people to develop Linux software and embed themselves in the community, to make sure that as few people were willing to use Linux as possible, THIS IS ONE OF THOSE TIMES (5/end of rant)
@ubersoft Actually, if you read techrights.org, you can get a nice run down on all the ways Microsoft is trying to influence and subvert Linux and FOSS.
#MicrosoftSucks
