Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: What Window Manager/Desktop Environment do you use, and why? Date: 5 Jul 2025 22:40:30 GMT Lines: 15 Message-ID: References: <20250612083705.000061fc@gmail.com> <102fi1k$2u1dt$4@dont-email.me> <20250612161731.00003f61@gmail.com> <102funf$3149j$4@dont-email.me> <20250620103703.00004ee7@gmail.com> <1035m0l$u0ib$5@dont-email.me> <20250623142902.00001ef8@gmail.com> <103cqjq$1ip4g$7@dont-email.me> <20250701141023.00003c97@gmail.com> <1041t1s$349i3$3@dont-email.me> <10421sd$35564$4@dont-email.me> <1042qem$3dil1$1@dont-email.me> <1044eug$3p5ha$3@dont-email.me> <104as16$1d2v4$3@dont-email.me> <6868fbb4$0$11443$426a34cc@news.free.fr> <104au7q$1dse1$1@dont-email.me> <104bg1e$1igkp$1@dont-email.me> <104c2a6$1k7hb$4@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net z3oH8tS5oTqCIrHTlCPOZw5bN+cfqgDdW9aGOY99VbFssNNvvl Cancel-Lock: sha1:8+Wle8kp1m847TIDgIEvq+hOvms= sha256:vMBp/241maMurA9+KnfhVZrtDolY0QpsfehXcY/1xaM= User-Agent: Pan/0.160 (Toresk; ) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:69395 On Sat, 5 Jul 2025 13:35:18 -0700, Bobbie Sellers wrote: > If you must use Windows maintain a separate computer. When > so-called Dual-Boot is used and Windows gets a Kernel update which will > arrive without any notification it will mess up the UEFI boot patition > and > erase your Linux choice. The last dual boot I did was a Dell box that came with Windows 7. I put openSUSE on it, probably 12.1. I very seldom booted into 7. It made it up to 13.2. At the time there were reports that trying to upgrade to Leap 42 didn't go well so I ran 13.2 well past its EOL. I'm not sure it has UEFI. The only problem I had was openSUSE created a btrfs /boot by default and GRUB didn't handle that well.