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There's one caveat here: The UEFI specification doesn't strictly require the ability to handle more than one EFI System Partition on a drive, so some simply don't. So this "use a separate boot partition"-method might fail on some computers that just don't recognize a second ESP on the same drive and only surely works with a whole separate drive for Linux.

It’s actually quite easy to correct, so why not mention it?

Make that “moving goal post war” a “goal post movement war” and now it’s all nouns and valid to compound them.

https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2023/09/20/brussels-asks-poland-for-clarifications-about-cash-for-visa-scandal

Maybe… but even then there are competent ones not getting caught and those so clearly running only on populism that it’s not even surprising when they screw up… again.

Don’t forget the always popular narrative of the EU being just Germany’s 4th Reich trying to destroy Poland as the only hurdle in their way to share control over Europe between them and their Russian buddies…

(Yes, I’m not exaggerating. That’s all from actual quotes in the last 12 or so months…)

If that’s the case, then we should also keep in mind that they are in fact not “based af” but just acting like it out of their own oppotunistic reasons.

Think about any part of your body… say your arm. Now imagine scaling it up to double the size.

Your muscles are now double the length but also have to move a doubled distance. That changes nothing.

That same muscle (it’s roughly a tube) has doubled it’s diameter, so it 2² = 4 times as strong because it’s cross-section is a circle and the surface of a circle is (d/2)² * pi.

But your whole arm has doubled it’s size in all 3 directions. So it’s volume/mass is now 2³= 8 times as high.

So in short: double your size and you are 2² = 4 times as strong, but you also have to move 2³ = 8 times the mass. That’s the square/cube thing that makes just scaling up impossible.

PS: Yes, if you ever wondered how you were so incredible good at climbing things when you were a child… small children are much stronger than you compared to their own body weight.

Oh, believe me: There are so many messy BIOS and UEFI implementations out there that you can definitely deactivate it in the BIOS for some. Which just introduces even more mess where hibernation triggered on the OS level then fails.

They actually don’t. They try and it works for some time. And then the next Windows update intentionally fries their dual-boot. Then they go back to Windows.

Or they understood enough about the details and how to minimize the risk (basically running Linux with an linux boot manager that then chain-loads Windows boot files from another disk, so Windows is mostly oblivious about the other OS… and even then Windows likes to screw with the efi record) that they are mainly running linux. And later they tend to ditch Windows completely of just keep a virtual machine if they really need it for some proprietory stuff.

At least those scenarios above cover 95% of all people “dual-booting” I know…

In comparison, dual- or triple-booting Linux is indeed a bit less problematic. But the same thing applies: You mainly run one. And given that Linux distributions are all nearly the same, with just a few differences in pre-configuration and defaults, there’s not much point to it.

The good thing is: They might be big but they are mainly a risk for bees. But not much is actually as obnoxious (or dangerous for humans) as the aggressive assholes that are our domestic common wasps.