Never happened to me and I’ve been dual booting for a couple of years already. On the other side, updating linux mint from 20 to 21 made my printer not work despite installing and reinstalling the drivers many times ( tried the driver from the official website, random scripts from GitHub, nothing works). It’s pretty dumb having to boot crapdows (it takes 20 minutes to just boot no joke and i freaking debloated that shit the day i installed it.) to print anything and it’s basically why none of my family wants to deal with linux.
The last time I dual-booted, which is a while ago, it was grub that keeps losing my windows boot option. Not sure what happened there, since I’m still a newbie at Linux.
Luckily it’s usually an easy fix if you know your way around the UEFI. Just plop grub back where it needs to be in the boot order.
Although I definitely wish Windows didn’t mess with the boot order occassionally.
Also, finally, I dual-boot and I haven’t actually had this happen in about a year now. I think maybe Microsoft finally stopped fucking around (with this one thing).
EDIT: Actually, it could be because I’m on Windows 10 and they stopped “Feature Updates” and all I get are security updates now. That could be why they stopped fucking with my boot order.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/microsoft-sorry-but-no-more-feature-updates-for-windows-10
I can’t recall a single feature from any feature update being added.
What users consider “Features” and what Microsoft considers “Features” are wildly different. I’d say that probably played a role in it.
Honestly, the only useful “features” in Windows I’ve found in the last few years were all provided by a non-standard Microsoft app that isn’t easy to find: PowerToys.
PowerShell is nice too, but it’s not new enough to be considered a “feature” anymore.
Fact check: true
Source: It happened to me.
