Dual-Boot Windows-Linux Tutorial (& NVME & LVM & disk migration)

[@dsimila1]

Notice how the Debian install with office, browser and development tools use 5.9 gigabytes of storage space. A lot less than MS Windows that has less features.

[@SoftBreadSoft]

The price of backward compatibility and slightly avoiding dependency/dll hell. There are hundreds-thousands of versions of ancient drivers, libraries, and such (all of them* to 1993) - then much of those drivers libraries and binaries which are considered critical have backups. It's a mess. I can't update Windows on my touch notebook with 64gb storage. It's almost 100% Windows, just Blender, Godot, Browser, and build tools barely fit. Ridiculous.

[@petabyt]

I wonder what all those extra gigabytes are...

[@unknownsauce3768]

@@petabyt Candy crush ;-)

[@martinsauer8856]

Windows has spyware and adware features every Linux user can only dream of

[@hpsmash77]

@@martinsauer8856 have nightmares about*

[@jupiterapollo4985]

"To pass time i decided to run a virus scan" *Proceeds to run tree command* This man is an absolute LEGEND 😂

[@Bisqwit]

Note: I deleted Windows at the end of this video because this was the purpose of my installation. The actual tutorial (dual-booting) already ended at around 19:07, and both operating systems worked independently and without problems. As an aside… like hamburger advertisements, or my DOS editor, this video is crafted for presentation, with… craftiness. It reminds me of the cigarette sketch by Penn & Teller. I might make a BtS video of it some day.

[@iProgramInCpp]

The "ING" verb you were talking about is actually a verb in the gerund case.

[@therealsponege]

Hey! Love your videos! Can you do a video on good keyboard shortcuts to use when programming? (Like how to move to end of line in command line, etc.)

[@iProgramInCpp]

@@therealsponege end of line in command line is the End key, likewise, the start of line key is Home key

[@audiencebigg6302]

Wuhuuu! Windows is deleted xD

[@only4posting]

... it is sad, to see linux only being used by a minority... things could have been different, if the linux community hadn't made a major mistake: use a diehard, pro linux geek, to design the main GUIs... Linux needed a gui designer, to create the linux "face", instead of a system admin.. or a developer.. or a network engineer... Why do people love the Mac os interface ?because everything is ultra pretty and sharp, and one designer will spend 50 hours until a notepad icon looks perfect. I remember back in the 2000s...a user would click on the main menu.. and there would be 30 other menus...each one with 50 sub menus...each submenu, with 80 other submenus.. there basically was one menu entry, for each. Exe, each file, each window, each app, each menu tab.. Then, in order to install an OS, the user had to type a command 3 kilometers long.. If we add to that the fact that the big guys like Microsoft had 0 interest in making linux successful and interesting, Immediately, anyone being even remotely interested in installing linux, would be confronted to the overall idea 'forget about linux, if you aren't a software engineer or developer, you won't be able to install it, let alone use it" Maybe some designers could create a distro with a windows/apple desktop, menus, etc...

[@JoLiKMC]

06:00 - "You want to learn how to install Linux? That's why you're watching this, I presume?" No, I'm watching this because you're awesome and I love your videos. :) The fact that I'm learning something is just a nice bonus~ *Edit:* 19:17 - "[…] it's a _real_ operating system and not an advertisement delivery platform […]" [immediately gets a _KZbin_ advert for a SSD you can strap RAM into] :B

[@MESYETI]

I love how he is criticising Windows loading captions like they betrayed him

[@katsumikougen8351]

Because why would things ever go as planned with Windows. - Bisqwit, 2020

[@MESYETI]

@@katsumikougen8351 can confirm, i remember downloading debian and the download (downloading on windows 10) kept failing

[@katsumikougen8351]

@@MESYETI Right

[@zizzu549]

"How much of my disk space to commit to this privacy-invading proprietary abomination?" I died 😂😂

[@JosephAlanMeador]

lol me too bwahaha! linux foreva

[@TehKorwinMikke]

GNU

[@pissmilker2313]

Absolutely proprietary!

[@schweinekillerlp2245]

I'm well familiar with the installation of Debian, LVM and so on, but somehow it is extremely entertaining to watch you installing the OS.

[@bitterlemonboy]

"advertisement delivery system strapped to a program loader" is an accurate description of Windows 10.

[@f1ggyc]

Is that motherboard running a custom coreboot? which one is it?

[@MrSmeXycano]

gpl coreboot

[@educate9946]

Bisqwit, you manage to say what I think about Windows in way more beautiful ways than I could ever do.

[@Simon8162]

If you're wondering what the MSR partition is for, a description is on Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Reserved_Partition Basically it's from when disks were paritioned as MBR, the first few sectors were used for storing bootloaders and such (IIRC MBR has 512 bytes for bootloading, but a second stage is often stored just after that). Since GPT doesn't have this, Windows uses a partition instead. This is likely why windows bluescreened. It was expecting the MSR to contain the BCD (Windows' boot manager)

[@Bisqwit]

The EFI partition is used for the purpose of containing the bootloader. The reason why Windows bluescreened is because the bootloader for windows (bootmgfw.efi) must be accompanied with a binary-format boot.ini file that specifies the device that it's supposed to load the operating system from. And this device specification referred to my SSD that was not in the system anymore. Because it is in a binary format it can only be changed with Microsoft-specific tools (bootcfg.exe to be specific), which I obviously skipped running, as running it would not even have been possible from Linux.

[@haythamkenway8675]

Windows fanbois who accidentally watched this video will need some time to recover from those burns

[@VanosTurbo]

2 of my favorite "finnar" Linus and Joel :)

[@creponnekarim2865]

always amazed by your skills ! you have such creativity and craftiness in your presentation, that i literally clicked on the video just for the sake of enjoying my time. And surprise i ended up watching the whole video, enjoying it, plus i learned new things ! thanks man :D

[@fubifwjdfubifwjd5167]

yes, this is the one and ONLY correct way of dual-booting bsodos and linux. Ah, such a nice installation video, like a balm to my heart.

[@krenciak]

Ahh, this old school Debian wallpaper is amazing!!

[@yogxoth1959]

Really enjoyed this video. Thanks Bisqwit!

[@gittawat6986]

"sneaky bastard" haha i love this line so much when it is about win10

[@manvelbeaver520]

A very relevant video for setup. I was a bit iffy myself until watching this video to perform the installation myself until now. Thank you for sharing.

[@audiencebigg6302]

I love it when Bisqwit starts roasting Windows

[@NullPointer]

I've done this a thousand times but I'll still watch it all

[@pablocano6272]

As spot on as one can be. Great sharing Joel.

[@petacreepers23]

The Best windows install commentary ever

[@stephaneduhamel7706]

9:48 is that the chinese clone of AMD Epyc processors?

[@KrishnaDasLessons]

Stéphane du Hamel It is actually the Chinese version of AMD's processors. Our boi Bisqwit saving money I see. However it sucks hat it is only 7 cores and not 48.

[@dsimila1]

@@KrishnaDasLessons It's probably a virtual machine.

[@tylerdurden7170]

0:22 - says Ryzen Threadripper, whereas the Chinese Hygon would have said HYGON, also all Hygons I've seen a soldered to the motherboard?

[@mikejones-vd3fg]

Probably the most useful Linux install video, thank you.

[@dillon4321]

When moving a dual boot Windows/Linux to a newer, bigger disk, I just simply boot from a linux rescue USB stick. I then use ddrescue (without re-trying failed sectors since the source disk is usually healthy) to clone the entire disk, then increase the linux partition to use all available sectors. Then I extend the filesystem so it fully uses the new larger partition. LVM lvresize can usually do the filesystem and partition expansion at the same time. I use a similar process for moving an installation to a smaller drive (like a legacy HDD to a smaller SSD): I first shrink the filesystem, then the partiton (being careful to keep it larger than the filesystem, and also making sure it can fit on the smaller disk), clone from larger to smaller (which is okay because if everything is done correctly, all partitions will fit on the smaller disk), expand the partition to use all of the remaining smaller disk space, and then expand the filesystem to match. This is an interesting method though; adding the new disk to the LVM volume, using pvmove and pvcreate, etc. I never knew it was safe to do such things on a live/mounted filesystem...I still feel safer using another boot disk though :^)

[@The1wsx10]

assembling a pc in 1 minute... impressive!

[@VistaSlayerOfficial]

Your voice is like the best thing ever

[@TheAxeForgetsTheTreeRemembers]

how to "dual boot windows & linux" 1. install windows 2. install linux, play a little bit with the system, try ... things 3. remove windows, because this is was it is meant for, being removed

[@audiencebigg6302]

Cracks me up

[@vkoskiv]

Great editing on this one!

[@slipcurve1410]

i loved how a dual boot tutorial ended in deleting the windows partitions

[@dana_t0ebdot]

This is the best tutorial of installation I have ever seen, however the virus scan was interpreted wrong, it found a.lot of viruses, they're all called windows 10 files though.

[@baltazarus3307]

Rakastan sinun kanava Bisqwit!

[@alvarozsh6566]

10:31 I ran the same virus scan and it told me I had 10 wiruses what should i do Cinnamon master-race

[@Bisqwit]

You may need to disinfect your keyboard.

[@dewthedev]

Bisqwit this Is y I love u

[@monkey3568]

Where do you found this Hygon processor?

[@tonym5857]

Your video remember my first steps with Gnu-Linux around 1997 insteas using Grub I used LILO 👍. Nice videos Joel 👏👏👏

[@GiveAcademy]

Very nicely done! :)

[@MrEdrftgyuji]

Would be interesting to see a Windows 7 install tutorial on Ryzen, you have to jump through a lot of hoops to get that to work! Microsoft really doesn't want you to use pre-spyware Windows.

[@ohdude6643]

"But I had not intention to start Windows again..." -- oh my... naughty

[@1st_ProCactus]

Ive seen the clock in windows use over 60MB of RAM with process explorer, why and how is beyond me.

[@ancientapparition1638]

the national security agencys coroutines are running alongs- I mean its because windows amirite

[@okie9025]

Ah yes, I buy 256GB of ram and want none of my programs to use it. What a joke.

[@1st_ProCactus]

@@okie9025 That's sounds stupid, why ?

[@1st_ProCactus]

@@okie9025 That's sounds stupid, why ?

[@okie9025]

@@1st_ProCactus it's the mindset of a typical linux user who wants no programs to utilise their system resources to run faster or more stable.

[@chaosyoung1403]

Hi, would you mind sharing the font name that you use in the debian terminal to me? I totally like it, and I didn't get it when I was installing Debian in the past Btw, your new video is helpful to who which needs! thank you :D

[@thiagorisingforce]

I would glady switch to linux fulltime but hardware incompatibilities occur often, last time I was using linux the cpu would overheat just from opening firefox and playing a youtube video. Is this kind of thing over yet?

[@Bisqwit]

Are you using a laptop? If you are using a PC and you have insufficient cooling, first you should make sure that your cooling is actually properly installed and configured, and disable any overclocking you have configured, but you might also want to install cpufrequtils and change the power plan to powersave or something else rather than have everything at full speed. On laptops, you may have to install firmware-specific drivers which monitors and controls the CPU throttling, as many laptops are installed with CPUs that are too powerful for the cooling solution inside the laptop. Also, make sure that you have the display card drivers installed properly. In some distributions you may need to explicitly enable non-free software (the distribution defaults to libre software only), as NVidia drivers in particular are proprietary and secretively guarded by NVidia corporation rather than released for community development. Without proper drivers, video decoding may needlessly happen on CPU rather than on GPU. The situation is slightly better on AMD/ATI GPUs.

[@thiagorisingforce]

@@Bisqwit yes, it is a laptop. I did not know that, thank you

[@jarilo8639]

This works well if you keep the Windows bootloader on the UEFI but it can cause issues during Windows updates since it expects to be the main boot device. So if your doing Windows updates you better keep Windows at the default boot device. If you let grub detect the windows bootloader and select windows from grub Windows will have serious problems updating. Also you forget to turn off the Windows fast boot mode which locks the disk and prevents stuff from happening to it. If you want/need Windows the best option is to have it on another disk entirely.

[@ligius3]

Also, just cloning windows to another disk will not work, unless the disk ids are also duplicated. This is because the bootloader uses disk ids instead of device id/paths. The advantage to that is that is can boot after swapping SATA connectors (perhaps). Linux would try to boot from /dev/sda1 which is now on sdb2.

[@ecksdii]

what is your opinion on earlier windows versions? do you think they are less invasive than windows 10? just curious btw

[@Bisqwit]

They are less invasive than Windows 10, yes.

[@serecano104]

THANK YOU! this makes me so happy

[@ralokossovo7906]

Hello Bisqwit. How did you get the "Bisqwit" logo to display on the BIOS initialization in place of the usual motherboard brand logo? Did you, perhaps, re-flash the ROM with an open-source alternative, is it supported natively by the motherboard, or is there something else I'm missing? Thanks in advance.

[@Bisqwit]

Customized BIOS indeed, but I also used a virtual machine (qemu+kvm) for everything in this video.

[@ralokossovo7906]

@@Bisqwit Thanks a lot!

[@BenicioDomi]

Very good video and very interesting topic!

[@redxxiv739]

Great music as always

[@antnolooney]

Perfect as always..I don't like win10 as uncontrollable system

[@Chriva]

Do you have any particular reason for not going the virtual machine way or is it just preference? :)

[@Bisqwit]

I was _actually_ assembling a new server from these components.

[@Chriva]

@@Bisqwit I think I jumped the gun a tad too soon. I'm sorry. I wrote the comment before I'd watched the whole video so I somehow missed that you eventually intended to nuke it anyway :)

[@beron_the_colossus]

I'm sorry if you mention this in a later part of the video but why did you use btrfs instead of ext4? Thanks!

[@Bisqwit]

Preference. One particular advantage is that btrfs supports transparent compression. It is handy if you need to store large and very compressible files, such as databases. You can enable the compression (and even specify the compression method) separately for each file. Btrfs also doesn’t do the "volume has gone 100 days without checking, check forced *cue 20 minute boot delay*" thing that ext4 does. Also, btrfs supports all kinds of manipulations on live & mounted filesystems, such as the resizing I did here. With ext4 most maintenance operations require unmounting or at least remounting read-only. To be fair, _when_ btrfs breaks, it tends to be much worse than on ext4. A particular situation that can grind your btrfs system to a halt is running out of disk space. If you reboot while that situation is going on, and if you then skip repairing the filesystem, chances are that sooner or later you will run into a state where attempting to mount the filesystem will fail with very scary messages. Btrfs also sometimes seems to take a very long time to process if you suddenly make lots of previously-used diskspace available. In these regards, ext4 may feel like a safer option. But if you are prone to crashing your system, ext4 does also need repair once in a while.

[@beron_the_colossus]

Thank you for the great reply, the need to remount was a bit annoying but I think I'll stay with ext4. Hope you have a wonderful day!

[@brandonkruger9040]

@Bisqwit What kind of internet connection do you have and what download and upload speed do you have.

[@ralokossovo7906]

Hello Bisqwit. I'm sure you get this quite a lot but I just wasn't able to find an answer to it anywhere. Why do you use Debian instead of distributions aimed at more "experienced" users like Arch Linux, or possibly even LFS? I've noticed that Debian is quite popular for people of similar mindset to yours. Is it perhaps because of the explicit emphasis and support of Free software, something to do with the release scheme or...? Thanks in advance.

[@Bisqwit]

The combination of “minimal maintenance” and “freedom to change the system in whatever way you like” is quite attractive. Most distributions fail either one of these.

[@bigshaqsmathematicalinstit3318]

I might get a lot of hate, but I like using windows for everything because it has better application support/easy to use for me.

[@figboot]

How did you manage to set the post screen logo?

[@Bisqwit]

Some BIOSes/UEFIs have an option to install a custom splash logo.

[@figboot]

@@Bisqwit Thank you for the answer!

[@piotrkucharski5612]

As always great video! I love the summary with deleting windows :) Do you have any solution to painlessly play games on Debian other than using KVM with GPU passthrough? I tried using dedicated software to run Windows apps on Linux (eg.wine) but it always let me down. This is only thing that keeps me using Windows.

[@Bisqwit]

Quite many games run natively on Linux, and Steam’s version of Wine (Proton) is getting pretty good. Sometimes you may need to choose a particular version. For instance, I had trouble getting Two Point Hospital working on Proton 4, but it works on Proton 3. I have not used GPU passthrough on QEMU/KVM. The reason has been that I never use CPUs that have an integrated GPU, although now that I have two graphics cards I could experiment with it again.

[@piotrkucharski5612]

@@Bisqwit I would love to see your test on video. Thank you for answer!

[@Bleenderhead]

'No' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file

[@KishoreG2396]

LOL

[@tersbersirs]

@Bisqwit What do you think about the recent news that Microsoft has stopped updates and support for Windows 7?

[@Bisqwit]

It’s a Microsoft product, so Microsoft has the right to do that. Playing by Microsoft rules is the price you have to pay for living inside Microsoft house and playing with Microsoft toys. The principle is innocuous though. Many Linux distributions also have a lifetime schedule. For example, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS was released in 2012, and its support ended on 2017 (extended security support ended on 2019). However, the difference between Linux distributions and Windows-brand OSes is that Linux can usually be upgraded without changing the nature of the operating system. You can get the same software and often even run it without changing any configurations. (There are exceptions.) In contrast, each Windows release is a separate _product_ with totally different look and rules, sometimes so radically different that people don’t _want_ to upgrade. The switch from Windows 7 to Windows 10 was a particular difficult one. I can very much understand people who will insist on continuing to use Windows 7 despite the termination of support for it.

[@vl1asdfasdf]

I love the way you speak

[@jt1731]

LVM seriously rocks

[@MESYETI]

How did you make the custom screen at 1:23

[@whythosenames]

MESYETI yeah that’s what i thought all the time

[@Bisqwit]

Some BIOSes/UEFIs have an option to install a custom splash logo.

[@MESYETI]

@@Bisqwit oh okay

[@winnie8614]

Hi, @Bisqwit. I'm really wondering why do we need LVM if we are using BTRFS?

[@Bisqwit]

You need LVM only if you want to take advantage of features it offers.

[@winnie8614]

@@Bisqwit sounds logicaly :D

[@0.Andi.0]

Hi, ¿how did you changed the boot screen logo?

[@Bisqwit]

Custom BIOS.

[@audiencebigg6302]

Joel, how do you record the screen while installing all that stuff?

[@Bisqwit]

A capture card would do it, but here I used a virtual machine.

[@audiencebigg6302]

@@Bisqwit Thank you!

[@prototypemusic]

23:54 btw, I get that same BSOD on my PC, having installed Windows on my NVMe drive. Entering the BIOS before booting solves that issue

[@Hyp3rborean]

Do you have experience from any of the BSD systems and whats your opinion of them.?

[@Bisqwit]

I have installed FreeBSD maybe a handful of times in my life, always very shortlived experiments. I have the impression that they don’t have very recent drivers. Aside from museum motivations or from the “don’t put all eggs in one basket” principle, I don’t really see a reason to use a BSD system nowadays. Maybe once upon a time NetBSD or somesuch had better network performance than Linux did.

[@xylian2861]

I have already dual boot. Linux makes it easy. Btw I use Zorin OS a Ubuntu distro. It is great. Easy setup. Nice features. And the customization is fast to do thanks to some presets.

[@JohnnyRicha]

Great video, I want to code with you someday.

[@kuro68000]

Is this a budget Chinese threadripper?

[@gibrains]

23:51 Skip to punchline

[@neoqueto]

How does the Chinese Hygon CPU work on X399? How is it only 7 cores? Is this a VM? I believe it is a VM? 🤔🤔🤔

[@Bisqwit]

It is. I spent some extra effort in duplicating all the real hardware IDs, but in the virtual machine, so that the storage devices appear authentic and not like “QEMU Hard Disk”. Built coreboot too to make it appear somewhat realistic (seabios is too obvious sign of VM), and spent effort in modifying its source code for a custom startup screen. And I customized the CPU a bit (1 socket, 7 cores per socket, 3 threads per core :P), because why not.

[@asafcohen3562]

You wrote in the start why did you change it to cpp

[@Bisqwit]

? Please explain what you are trying to ask. As far as I recall I did not write a single line of code in this video. (Behind the scenes, lots, but I have not published that material.)

[@dertyp6833]

19:00

[@trailblazingfive]

Any hints for to go about installing non free wifi drivers on debian; I have a vanilla x220 with debian and an old Dell 80w work station that I'm planning to use as a server; but my daily driver is a acer v3 and it has this problem that ubuntu/elementary has no problem in making the network card work; but debian just can't figure it :/ any hint will do; as always great video!

[@Bisqwit]

Well I don’t know which hardware your system has… but make sure these three packages are installed: apt install firmware-misc-nonfree firmware-iwlwifi firmware-atheros Make sure your /etc/apt/sources.list has "contrib non-free" appended on every non-comment line that contains "main". If you need a newer kernel than is available in your distribution, you may need to pull from _testing_ rather than from _stable,_ and if that is not new enough, then try _unstable_ temporarily for installing those firmware packages. Without knowing which network hardware you have, I’m afraid I can’t diagnose the problem more.

[@trailblazingfive]

@@Bisqwit the network card identifies as Qualcomm Atheros QCA61x4A; thank you for the blazingly fast reply I'm sure I'll manage to make it work based on your advice!

[@nebulium6641]

Im thinking of next time i get a computer, dual booting linux for programming, windows for gaming. Thoughts?

[@Bisqwit]

Good idea. However, consider that gaming on Linux is also pretty good nowadays. My desktop also has two operating systems installed, but I have not needed to boot to Windows for over a year now. Granted I don’t play games very often, but those that I do play either work straight away on Linux (such as The Talos Principle, Life is Strange) or work perfectly using a compatibility tool (Proton) provided by Steam (The Turing Test, Two Point Hospital). Allegedly some games even work _better_ because the compatibility tool translates DirectX calls into Vulkan calls, which are more efficient.

[@nebulium6641]

@@Bisqwit Oh cool, Currently im just running a linux VM and using ssh to enter commands on it. Amazing how much easier *some* parts of programming are.

[@nebulium6641]

@@Bisqwit Here I am, one year later on arch linux with a tiling window manager, playing most of my games on linux :)

[@oEQjet]

It's very important to me how your tutorial on how to dual boot linux and windows ends with you wiping windows out.

[@KishoreG2396]

I would like to use Debian as my primary OS, but I have to use Windows for particular programs for school that simply do not run well in WINE. That is the sole reason I have to dual boot. Is there anything I can do to get Windows programs that don't work well on Wine to run in Debian somehow?

[@Bisqwit]

There is the option of using a virtual machine. That said, Wine has improved by leaps and bounds in the last few years.

[@initfunction6961]

I have a solution, use Windows Subsystem For Linux

[@cvabds]

How much you need form me to askt you to make a video about VFIO ang GPU passtrhough on a MX150 type GPU. I have a notebook with desktop formfactor that have i3-8100 with integrated graphics and a dedicated MX150 nvidia. BUT no matter what i try i cant pass to the VM the Graphics

[@Vampier]

but debian doesn't have free candycrush!! ;)

[@sorae42]

why cant you buy a smartphone and play candy crush on it

[@zrotsin6899]

jdewfiez don't worry man, they were joking

[@Leff16]

wouldn't "free candycrush" be an oxymoron c:

[@d0rban]

I’ve recently migrated my Windows drive from an SSD to an NVME recently and noticed that Windows doesn’t even install NVME drivers until it detects one on the system. That’s another issue possibly causing the BSOD

[@MarsofAritia]

what a coincidence, I just did this with mint a few weeks ago lol. Problem is configuring the touchpad on my laptop to work properly, its currently too floaty and I spent ages trying to configure it with little success. I really want to abandon windows but this is really bothering me.

[@Bisqwit]

What do you mean by "too floaty"?

[@MarsofAritia]

The cursor is not very precise when its moved. It tends to move slightly further than it should, so I sometimes miss things I want to click. On windows it's very precise, moving and stopping exactly where I want it. Perhaps its because the laptop's drivers are specifically configured for windows. I should probably just get a proper mouse. Sorry for the bad explanation.

[@Bisqwit]

It sounds like you need to adjust the acceleration. Your Mint probably has Cinnamon desktop in it, so the relevant setting would be found here: imgur.com/a/f4mAW7R If it doesn‘t help, then I don’t know. Personally I don’t use touchpad at all; don’t like it.

[@MarsofAritia]

yes I've been fiddling with those settings for a while now and I cannot get it right. I guess I'll just get a mouse.

[@huyvole9724]

Im heared something not good about AMD that blue screen :( did you get it?

[@Bisqwit]

Nope

[@docwhogr]

if you select the Finnish language the installation is immediately done?

[@Mautar55]

Have a recomendation if I have to move 700Gb outside the computer? No related to the vid but is a very real problem.

[@Bisqwit]

An external USB disk might be a good choice.

[@Mautar55]

@@Bisqwit Of course it is... I don't know why even asked.

[@genericgamer1319]

can't you just use partprobe to reload the partition table without rebooting or am i misunderstanding something

[@Bisqwit]

The kernel automatically reloads partition tables on all disks where they have been modified, _unless_ one of those partitions is currently mounted, in which case it cannot reload the table. For a more useful answer, at which point in the video did this issue arise?

[@genericgamer1319]

@@Bisqwit dang it it guess still gotta reboot shame linux can't just unmount / & fall back to the initrd but i guess the world isn't perfect & even linux can't do some things

[@Bisqwit]

Actually, it can. There is a mechanism called pivot_root which mounts another filesystem as a new root, and keeps the current root mounted but in a subdirectory of the new root. Then you can unmount that subdirectory, if nothing is using it anymore.

[@garrettsmith5508]

Is there a channel someone would recommend me so that I can get an in depth look on Linux distros? I know the basics, but I'd like to do more research before I end up working on a Linux Computer.

[@Nichomachean5]

LOL! luv the windows sarcasm. I was tearing up laughing at this.

[@ulquiorrajgaming5946]

Hello pls hlp me how to fix no size on drive cant install OS.

[@Jorge-vv8cy]

do you really need a threadripper for developing ms-dos applications?

[@Bisqwit]

No. Has someone tried to assert that claim at you?

[@Jorge-vv8cy]

@@Bisqwit Im just kidding you because of your retro stylish youtube channel. I really like your programming videos. i find them very intresting. Thank you.

[@akj7]

5:50 "Several Minutes was apparently 20 seconds", nice one.

[@Bisqwit]

Yep, especially as it was actually 80 seconds, not 20 seconds. My bad.

[@bert007007007]

Didn't expect 2:12

[@woozyloozy]

What about macOS? What is your opinion on that?

[@MarquisDeSang]

It is the closest thing to Linux. After 10 years of Linux, I moved to Mac for 5 years without feeling lost. I am a c & c++ programmer. I am returning to Linux after 1 year of windows 10.

[@SimGunther]

I would recommend a linux network traffic analysis on a system that exclusively has linux vs a system that has linux and windows. The traffic might be surprising to see in the dual boot system knowing that windows mirrors your harddrive contents in the background despite being inside of linux. Now that's dastardly and invasive.

[@ligius3]

How would that work? There is no MS software running under Linux. Unless there's some secret alliance with the motherboard/cpu manufacturers to run MS code in the background all the time. Intel ME could do that. While possible, very unlikely.

[@multimartax]

That chinese amd chip is now quite a collectors item now.

[@nokkreload]

Hello @Bisqwit, come back make more Linux videos! Please!

[@MESYETI]

do you always use xterm?

[@Bisqwit]

Not always, but when I need a terminal...

[@samzx81]

What keyboard is that?

[@samzx81]

Also you should try out BSD if you haven't already

[@Bisqwit]

It took quite a bit of researching to find out, but it seems to be a SolidTek PS/2 mini keyboard. I could not find the exact model in the Internet, but it has labels E162263 and L2B ACEKEY500 printed on it. The ACK595 that is available in eBay etc. today seems very similar, though not identical.

[@samzx81]

@@Bisqwit thanks 🙂

[@jaythomas3180]

sibelius would have been an equally appropriate hostname

[@dumidordumbleplex]

10:30 best virus scanner!!!!!

[@Splicher]

A real Nerd begins by the real shit. The Hardware. Nobody who look this need a quick Guide to build a computer. But it makes the Video more funny

[@briankimathi5033]

What is your internet connection; 10Gbps?

[@Bisqwit]

Nah, I just tricked my router into thinking my own server in the LAN is the Debian website, and put the Debian ISO & html there. Windows was accessing my server instead of the actual Debian site.