Thread 106231583

>be me 21 physics uni student looking to get into homelabbing
>a new initiate to linux and the /g/tranny cult but not totally clueless always been relatively good with tech compared to my peers (and also took a 1st year CS course on linux and bash)
>try out Ubuntu LTS for my shitty hand-me down laptop from 2012 with no graphics card (poorfag) because it can barely run windows 10 because of bloat
>goooooood, verygood.exe
>decide to install Ubuntu dual boot for my windows 10 desktop
>split my HDD into two partitions, etch USB, boot USB, install in partition, install fine
>do some finishing touches on the partitions merging unallocated data on gparted
>huh, I’ll just make one extra shared exFAT partition for shared storage"
>more than 4 partitions on MBR disk
>windows: dynamic disk time :)
>ubuntu: LDM data partition, idk bro
>disk management says the drive is gone start panicking
>spend copious time trying to reverse what I did apparently windows sees 4+ partitions as invalid and I have to revert it to a simple volume
>eventually delete partition in disk manager and the data comes back, feel smart
>finally open gparted to finally finish this
>gparted: "still dynamic lol"
>apparently because I went over 4 windows marked by drives with a dynamic tag basically corrupted my shit for little reason, need to convert it to simple even though windows already knows it NTFS
>download 3 different free partition tools
>all want $50 to press 1 button
>fuck this
>decide backup 150gb worth of stuff
>backup 500GB to USB drive, ETA: 3 hours

>>106231583 (OP)
>realize I’ve rebooted from Live USB like 20 times today
>boot Live USB to fix it
>boot Live USB again to resize
>boot Live USB again to merge
>boot Live USB again to format
>boot Live USB again to check
>boot Live USB again to format
>boot Live USB again to check
>boot Live USB again to format
>boot Live USB again to check
>boot Live USB again because I forgot WiFi password
>boot Live USB again to move a partition 2 pixels
>boot Live USB again to scream into the void
>mfw this USB was a installer so I had to wait like 3 minutes per restart
>basically spent entire day just trying to merge 200GB of space
>could’ve reinstalled all my games twice by now
>tfw the “year of the Linux desktop” is just me fighting Windows’ bad decisions
pain and suffering
also dual booting seems like you really need a 3rd portable OS otherwise its a real pain

>zoomers
>troonix
>jewbuntu
>dual booting
>ewaste
>free partition tools
>mbr

skill issue
ubuntu is troonware, windows 10 is pajeetware
gentoo wouldn't have allowed you to fuck up anything
>inb4 how did i fuck up
by using ubuntu and windows 10
>inb4 i don't want to tinker and compile
it quickly goes from tinkering to engineering, and it doesn't take long to compile non-shitware, just use flag and mask it out

>>106231583 (OP)
Nigga I ain't reading all this shit

>want to try linux
>don't dual boot because I'm not a dumb faggot
>try 5 or 6 different OSes/DEs
>settle on one
It's not that hard?

>>106231583 (OP)
>>106231601
>on today's episode of "im a freetard now look how smart i am"
>this epic fuckup from not having the slightest clue how booting or partitioning works
>(and blaming windows for his ignorance)
I'm impressed that this show has been going for 34 years with the exact same plot every episode.
It's like Night Stalker or The Dreamstone.

>>106233087
Skill issue

>>106234954
kek

Can’t be bothered to read all that shit by (You) OP but I can’t be bothered with that shit anymore nowadays either. Either I have two separate physical drives (one for Winblows and one for Loonix) or I don’t bother and just pick whatever.

Windows does not care that you want to use other OSes, it's always been like this. But the fact that you managed to fuck up with Ubuntu (pretty much Microsoft's distro nowadays) is actually an impressive skill issue.