Booting a computer is always more complex than one wants to think. On the PC side, it looks as if BIOS finally is retired and replaced by EFI (I wonder which was the last OS to use BIOS for anything ...
Windows 10 isn’t the only (kind of) free operating system you can install on your computer. Linux can run from just a USB drive without modifying your existing system, but you’ll want to install it on ...
Taking your first steps into the world of Linux can be a scary proposition. After all, we have a whole new world of terminal commands, desktop environments and applications to learn. Thankfully Linux ...
The first time Windows removed my Linux boot entry, it happened out of the blue; no crash, no warning, and no error message. All I had done was update Windows, and on ...
Many PC users with Windows-and-Linux dual-boot setups woke up to a scary message this week: “Something has gone seriously wrong.” Apparently, the latest patch to Windows 10 and Windows 11 seems to ...
For some time now I have gotten a slow but steady volume of requests that I write about UEFI firmware and EFI boot relative to installing and maintaining Linux. As a result of a casual comment I made ...