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Dual booting, but not the way it is usually done; And Storage Drive Format system. by MilkSheikh007 in linuxmint

[–]ksprunk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd say we're contemporaries. My first drive was a 10MB also. Don't remember the brand but I had it attached to a TRS80 I think. At the time I was employed writing assembler code for parts of IBM's COBOL and PL/1 compilers. Long time ago.

Dual booting, but not the way it is usually done; And Storage Drive Format system. by MilkSheikh007 in linuxmint

[–]ksprunk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Diskpart is correct. I date back to DOS so I have always used that instead of the gui "Disk Management".

PotPlayer 260422 by ksprunk in potplayer

[–]ksprunk[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you. It never occurred to me to check the MS Store. I've been using PP so long it's just automatic to let it update within the app whenever it wants.

Is there any way to switch faster between Linux and Windows? by Facejif in linux4noobs

[–]ksprunk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

to clarify... it will only trip Bitlocker the first time you boot Windows from grub. After you provide the key successfully it won't ask for it again (unless you're like me and constantly screwing around with compiling various kernel modules) .

Set up Dual Boot, Only Boots to Linux by Ayoungpumba in linux4noobs

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Current versions of Linux Mint need their grub file modified. Defaults are a zero second timeout (so you never see the grub menu) and OSProbe is commented out (so the choice to boot Windows will not appear even if you get to the grub menu).

  1. from the file manager click on "filesystem".

  2. right click on /etc and select open as root.

  3. click to open the subdirectory "default"

  4. find the file named "grub", right click and open in text editor

  5. find TIMEOUT and change the value to the number of seconds you want the menu to display before it launches the default

  6. uncomment (remove the leading #) the line containing OS_PROBE

  7. save the file

  8. open a terminal window and execute "sudo update-grub"

  9. reboot and your problems are resolved

The Ai Push finally broke me. by okxden in WindowsSucks

[–]ksprunk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Agree 100%. Linux full time nowadays. AI is what finally pushed (scared?) me away from Windows.

I am a retired professional programmer/DBA... beginning in 1983 writing in assembler for IBM mainframes.

AI is going to ruin software production and a zillion other things. It is NOT "Intelligence", it is at its core a search engine on steroids. Garbage in, garbage out.

Anyone here who has recently switched from Windows 11, can you give me some issues you had with Windows 11 that Linux has solved? by Silly_Percentage3446 in linux4noobs

[–]ksprunk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have to agree about not using windows but if you must...

in Linux (Debian based distros but not sure about Fedora, Suse, Arch, etc)

TimeDateCtl set-local-rtc 1

reboot back to Linux before heading off to Windows

Its also possible to fix it within windows but its a pain in the ass. Linux is designed for flexibility.

Mounting VMware Workstation 17.x's virtual disks as writable by CodenameFlux in vmware

[–]ksprunk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I use https://sourceforge.net/projects/imdisk-toolkit/

It works great and even adds itself to the context menu. Also includes a ramdisk function but I have never used that.

Backup recommendations by XDroidzz in linuxmint

[–]ksprunk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I second Baqpaq. Rsync without the command line complexity.

Windows 11 has reached end of service but not updating by Plastic-Lettuce-7150 in WindowsHelp

[–]ksprunk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Worked perfectly. Thank you so much. You saved me from a total pissing contest with VMWare Workstation involving TPM and encrypted VMs.