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Yet people with pre-built machines from large manufacturers often have issues with updating.
It's more a problem on hardware that's customised from the standard generic chip reference circuit. For example the Dell Latitude uses an IDT audio chip but it's been implementation has been customised for the Latitude board .... it needs the Dell driver, likewise the VGA and the wifi. Windows trying to update drivers just causes more problems than it will ever solve
Put Win 10 on a machine with no net connection and it's flawless. It's the updates that cause all the grieve
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I've now spent hours trying to get Linux to dual boot, but the UEFI/BIOS just keeps overriding it in favour of Microsoft which is the only 'authorised' system. Having ploughed through countless sites and tried countless pieces of advice, i am still no further forward. Cheers Microsoft and Intel!
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https://learnlinuxandlibreoffice.org/1-why-switch-to-linux/1-4-uefi-the-microsoft-kill-switch
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Dell F2
HP \ Compaq F11
Clone Delete key is common or F2 after escape
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You shouldn't have to switch to Legacy because then Windows will stop working.
You just need to change the efi boot settings.
From within Lubuntu, do the following in the terminal:
1. sudo apt-get install efibootmgr
2. Now we need to inspect the current settings so type: sudo efibootmgr
This will display the current settings, and all of the boot devices, the important things you have to look for are Timeout, Boot Order and the ID's of both the Windows Boot Manager and Lubuntu (might be called Ubuntu)
3. Now we need to change the settings, first the timeout, sudo efibootmgr -t 10
4. Now just to be safe you want to change the boot order to put Lubuntu before windows.
As an example if you have the following boot settings:
Boot0001: Windows
Boot0002: Lubuntu
Boot0003: CD Drive
Boot0004: USB
You usually want to keep USB and CD before all of the others. So then do the command sudo efibootmgr -o 4,3,2,1
The last thing was happened was due to my bootloader being corrupted on my PC and refusing to load the OS, but I managed to fix that with a recovery disk, still not sure what caused it.
The Surface Book had some issues earlier on but it's really solid now.