Yeah… uninstall the bootloader… I may just do that. Good idea. That’ll be fun… a little extra security hurdle to hop over to be able to boot into the machine. Doesn’t really do much to the attack surface, but eliminates about half of the dumb attackers. Glad for the freedom to have unique innovative security arrangements. Thankyou Free Software.
I once unistalled edge and now Teams app doesn’t work too. So I unistalled it too. Now I use Teams on Firefox
That strategy works when you uninstall Windows too. :D
Now imagine which one would work best for regular users.
The one that lets you do anything you like, or the one that protects the user from their own mistakes.
Would this in theory allow me to switch from “legacy BIOS” boot to UEFI boot?
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A mistake in Linux can cause it to uninstall its bootloader.
A mistake in Windows can also cause it to uninstalling Linux’s bootloader.
Speaking from experience, windows will gladly uninstall the linux bootloader without mistakes or errors involved. Pretty sure that’s just what a successful update is for microslop.
Windows IS a mistake.
Not going to lie. Many years ago on one of my first Linux installs that I actually built up to be more than just a dev playground, I deleted my bootloader… it just let me do that, no scary confirm. That is the day I learned Linux is guardrails-off, lol.
My personal hurdle as teenager always was having to keep windows on same disk for my sisters to use while struggling to install Linux besides it so I could have that semi transparent terminal like in the movies. Can’t even count how many times I’ve bricked bootloader because of that, but when it worked I felt like I’m a president
Windows is the best program to use if you want to accidentally lose your boot ability. I haven’t bothered to try dual boot for 10 years because I got tired of the bullshit.
Really especially at the my teenage times, there was no Google to help you, no mentors to guide you. You got some shitty homemade linux distro nobody ever heard of on CD from a friend and only way was through trial and error. Funny times
Linux does let you fuck around and find out lol
But then you find out, and you learn, and we become better users for it.
Don’t be so sure.
True, I only broke my boot twice… Never again
With the number of times I have done the live distro chroot thing you’d think I would have the procedure memorized
Linux does not “let you fuck around” in fact its says “you are root and if you root I assume u know what you do!”
And yeah i learned that the hard way when it didnt threw any errors at me doing stuff as root…
10/10 would do it again!
I’ve forgotten i was root, thought I was back to normal user, fat fingered a command, and removed tons of directories. I actually learn more fixing my fuck ups than when I reading books. Nothing like pressure to really focus you!
The best teacher is a fuck up
That happened to me with /etc/ . That was not a fun experience.
rm -rf /Please, if you do that
rm / -rfand you’re really looking into that path to make sure it’s correct.
Technically speaking you don’t need a bootloader to boot Linux, with uefi of course you can use efistub and just boot from there but you could also have a separate Linux distro on a USB stick than chroot into your main one. Hell even if you uninstall the kernel there are still ways to repair the system.
Linux is the parent that let’s their child put a fork into the electrical socket and then says “Have you learned anything?”
*lets
If you say so!
Linux is the parent tells their child “Lets put a fork into the electrical socket” and then says “Have you learned anything?”
Get your damn hands off my Lets!
Msg unclear system dead
“Am afraid you can’t do that”
Sigh “sudo uninstall the bootloader”
Yes, do as I say!
When I grow up there will be a day when everybody has to do what IIIIII say…
initrd? Sounds like bloat, I’m deleting it.
I only need the internet, what is this
I’ve debloated my OS down to a typewriter.
Smith Corona Linux.
Pencil and paper for me boys. I’d do cave painting, there are no caves around me.
I use Selectric Linux btw
Found the IBM loyalist.
Olivetti it is🤪
You could’ve just installed slack
Ahhh, sackcloth and ashes! Tarballs. Yum!
… and the irony that Windows can also fuck up your bootloader in a dual boot scenario.
Windows doesn’t let you really screw your system because it’s its work and it’s very jealous of it.
You don’t have to use it it under uefi anyway.
I’m going to mount efivars as rw and delete them
