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I have the absolute worst reason for dual booting Linux and Windows (lemmy.ml)
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I’m currently dual booting Linux Mint and Windows. Love Linux, hate Windows. So why I am dual booting?

Because I own and use a Microsoft Zune HD.

It’s probably the best product Microsoft ever came out with. It’s so much lighter than my phone, it has a ton of my music on there, and it has an HD FM radio tuner. However, the software that runs it has never been released so there aren’t really any good options to try and manage the Zune on Linux (some people have tried, it doesn’t really work). So I keep a windows partition just so I can manage a 16 year old mp3 player and radio. That has to be the worst reason to keep a Windows partition, right?

(The reality is I would probably get rid of the Windows partition if I could, I’ve tried but something seems wrong with the BIOS on my computer idk I’m not a programmer. The Zune software is pretty janky at the point so uploading new music barely works anyway).

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[-] fratermus@piefed.social 12 points 3 days ago

I own and use a Microsoft Zune HD

Seems like a good enough reason to me!

[-] Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 days ago

The zune was one of the single greatest MP3 players ever made. Microsoft as dumb as they are is still right twice a day.

The zune died before it's time.

this post was submitted on 11 Jan 2026
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