I forgot I even had a Windows partition…
this post was submitted on 31 Jul 2026
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how about four booting instead?
Dual boot is the side piece that eventually goes primary…
I've installed Mint on a few MacBooks. Was in need of a better laptop, got a decent deal on a Costco-special Lenovo IdeaPad and immediately put Mint on it. The process took twice as long as with the Macs and because this laptop has a Copilot key, I imagined that there was something akin to Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind going on inside with the "AI" trying to hide and dodge deletion.
The last winblows in this house is on (one of three) its own disk on a t440p, just in case a piece of shit needs a firmware update, and I dread that moment, last time I needed it was an 8BitDo , now in the hands of my kiddo on Bazzite (thank Athena I now have a steam controller). Not sure what I'm saying other than let the BIOS do the switching and may you never need to boot windows again.
I'm currently dual-booting. Partition 1 is Bazzite, Partition 2 is CachyOS. I'd nuke the Bazzite partition since I'm sure now that I'm perfectly fine on Cachy, but honestly any time I have to manually do storage stuff I mess it up 🥹 I'll probably just have to pull a proper backup of all my important data and do a full wipe/reinstall.
even though I don't have any arm devices I'm kinda excited about that steam-os-like arm distro
About a month ago I was very happy to replace Window on both my pc and a laptop. The last one is now a server in my utility closet. I couldn´t be happier and can´t imagine going back to Windows for any reason!
or unless you go Quebes and you no longer think in terms of partition anymore...,.....