Every time Windows updates itself, my Linux disappears. Actually, it’s just hidden, only the boot menu was overwritten. You need a computer maintenance technician to make a new boot menu. I use a USB stick with a live Linux with automatic boot repair tools.

Recently, Windows has become resistant to Boot Repair Disk. Now I have to open computer firmware by tapping “Esc” right after power-up, then select “Boot options”, then “Linux”.

EU must ban all US-made smart products for its own safety. All closed-source software and electronics that can be used for strategic manipulation and sabotage – Google, Apple, Amazon, all of it.

We have functional, clunky open-source software that could easily be fitted for any purpose with the money we waste propping up foreign monopolies sabotaging us. Europe has taken a huge risk. I suspect bribery.

  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml
    6·
    18 hours ago

    Sad thing is, the NT kernel itself is POSIX and compatible and all. But the UI on top doesn’t support half of it.

    Edit: it was POSIX and OS/2 compatibel, then they removed it.

    • renzev@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      18 hours ago

      The funny thing is, as far as I can tell, the only reason why NT has a posix subsystem is to comply with some weird government regulation.

      From Wikipedia:

      The NT POSIX subsystem was included with the first versions of Windows NT because of 1980s US federal government requirements listed in Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 151-2. Briefly, these documents required that certain types of government purchases be POSIX-compliant, so that if Windows NT had not included this subsystem, computing systems based on it would not have been eligible for some government contracts.