• CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    19 days ago

    I dual-booted for almost five years. Never once did I have to boot to Windows to fix Linux. Sometimes I’d have to boot to Linux to fix Windows or boot to a Linux live USB to fix the bootloader that Windows broke. But never did I have to use Windows to fix Linux.

    The very idea of using Windows to fix Linux seems absurd.

    • Jesus_666@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      19 days ago

      I can see two scenarios:

      1. You have an NTFS partition that got borked. Linux isn’t very good at repairing those so you might have to boot into Windows.
      2. You managed to make your Linux unbootable and need Windows to download a live USB image.

      And that’s it. Windows is less useful for fixing Linux than vice versa.