No worries! 😁

The issue is more or less 100% my own fault. And my solution is just a quick an easy fix to keep it from ever becoming an issue again(hopefully) on my system. I’m now free to format however I see fit on the disk I have Linux on.

If you manually make partitions during the Linux install or just install Windows before making any partitions at all, this is not gonna be an issue.

The solution offended some people it seems like. But I’m sure I’m not alone in creating a problem like this for myself. 😂

This solution took all about 2 minutes. Now it won’t matter what I do when I reinstall Linux. My Windows boot is not on that same drive any more.

If I would have known my Windows boot was on the M.2 drive I install Linux on, I would not tell the Linux installer to format that drive, obviously.

It’s an Issue I created myself by not thinking about Windows’ limitations. But this solution is pretty quick if you already reinstalled Windows again.

1. I know, it’s just way easier to reinstall.
2. I didn’t know Windows installed it’s boot loader on the Linux drive until after I formatted the drive. So see point 1.
3. Grub didn’t show the Windows boot loader because it was deleted. After reinstalling Windows it shows up again.

You comment comes off as pretty hostile, why?

I was hoping to avoid that, but that’s gonna be my next move.

Unless I forget and break windows again. Words can’t describe how tired I am of choosing the 37 different options during the install, updating the OS 4 times and installing my apps and deleting bloat. 😂 Windows 11 is great and all, but Microsoft loves to make it unbearable to use.

Yes that’s present and working.

Issue is that my BIOS doesn’t find it either. So something happens when I install a linux distro that breaks the Windows boot loader.

When I reinstall Windows, I can update the grub and it shows up. (It’s also back in the BIOS after reinstalling)

Yeah, I have to do that after reinstalling Windows again. Just did and that solves the issue of getting it into Grub so that I wont have tot go through the BIOS.

But when I install Linux, the Windows boot disappears from the BIOS too. Even tried to find it trough the «Repair» options when booting from a Windows USB, but it’s just gone.

Is it possible that Windows and Linux shares UEFI partitions even of they’re on different drives?

It shouldn’t, but that’s about the only thing I can think of that does this. I already know how to find windows in grub again, but it’s also gone from the BIOS boot options and it happens very specifically after installing Linux on the other disk.

Already installed Windows again so I can’t do that. But I could disconnect the Windows drive when I install Linux.

Maybe asking this on a Windows sub would be easier? I suspect this is a Windows issue and not a Linux one but I’m honestly not sure.

I am. Windows is on a 2.5" Sata SSD while Linux is on an Nvme M.2 drive

This community has been mind-blowingly helpful every single step of the way so far. At this point I cannot see myself going back to windows. Other than the few things I use that won’t work obviously.

Does this work for games that I have in the EA App and Ubisoft-thingy too?

Oh, I misunderstood completely what Wine Manager actually is it seems like. Though that was just a configure tool for Wine.

I’ll have a look. I like Heroic’s interface WAY more than Lutris

Edit: Would you look at that, if I only actually looked in that menu I would have tried it already. Giving it a go now

Played a few missions after installing Linux. Works fine with Proton Hotfix enabled in Steam. Honestly feels like it has less stutters too.

I’ll look into this too. I’ve had this issue with TibSun for years but the unofficial patch from cncnet usually fixed it.

A lot of the stuff I come across in Linux makes more sense than in Windows honestly. It’s just completely different and that makes it hard when you’re used to messing with .exe files, .dll files and regedits.

This worked for TibSun. Thanks!

Got the cncnet patch installed. Now to check if the patch actually fix the black menu issue.

Edit: Didn’t fix the issue for that game. But I now know how to uninstall patches using .exe files!

I used to prefer cncnet back in the day. I noticed they have Linux builds for a lot of Westwood games so if I fail to make the EA App version work I’ll just get that or openRA.

Absolutely incredible info. Saving this for later!

I’m not changing anytime soon. I ended up choosing Nobara after this thread ☺️

Ended up going with Nobara KDE. So far just about everything I’ve tried to do just worked flawlessly.

That’s the reason I was considering Fedora instead. But I just installed Nobara, so I’ll see how it goes.

I’m VERY curious about Arch, but I’ll stay on this distro for a little bit(I think)