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[-] horsey@lemm.ee 35 points 2 years ago

The partition is there. It's just that Windows overwrites the MBR as if no other operating systems could possibly exist.

[-] dingus@lemmy.ml 21 points 2 years ago

It's 2023, Linux has great UEFI support, there is no reason to be using MBR over GPT.

[-] horsey@lemm.ee 17 points 2 years ago

My system doesn't have UEFI support, so there's that.

[-] privateger@lemmy.plasmatrap.com 8 points 2 years ago

What? How old is your motherboard?

[-] horsey@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

I have a 2nd gen I5 and a 3070. Great combo. It was my brother's old system and I hadn't had a desktop in 10 years, so I added the video card... guess I'll be upgrading sometime soon!

[-] SketchySeaBeast@lemmy.ca 16 points 2 years ago

Jesus, do your video card's fans even come on?

[-] horsey@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

Nope. The only time the GPU gets over 40-50% is when rendering AI images.

[-] MasterNerd@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago

Bruh that bottleneck must be insane

[-] horsey@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah, games are CPU bound to say the least.

[-] privateger@lemmy.plasmatrap.com 3 points 2 years ago

What

I am genuinely impressed.

[-] jcg@halubilo.social 1 points 2 years ago

Is that a 2500k by any chance?

[-] horsey@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago
[-] dingus@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago
[-] BleatingZombie@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

It's 2023, Linux has great UEFI support, there is ~no~ ONE reason to be using MBR over GPT.

[-] dingus@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I have to admit, I'm a little surprised someone has a machine that doesn't support UEFI, because the board I bought in 2012 had UEFI support... 11 years puts most machines into barely being usable in Windows.

While it's a valid reason, guy has to be working with either some really old or very specific hardware.

[-] darcy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago

its not that weird considering the cult-like appreciation of old thinkpads

[-] Electricblush@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The thing is... I think a lot of people don't know that they have uefi support...

I have had the same windows install and motherboard (AMD is so great with long term socket support) for years, and figuring out how to change my bios and os setting so that I got a propper uefi boot was non-trivial.

Uefi has been a thing for a long time, but it's not been the default for motherboards afaik. So you have had to go into bios and find the right settings.

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