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> Windows playing well with other OS on my laptop. I updated my Windows 8 to Windows 8.1 and I could no longer boot into Linux

You don't seriously think that was anything but a consequence of your specific setup, right? Dual booting with Windows 8.1 and Linux is most certainly possible.

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> You don't seriously think that was anything but a consequence of your specific setup, right? Dual booting with Windows 8.1 and Linux is most certainly possible.

Yet is is. It is a consequence of the fact that windows overwrites things like the master boot record that live outside of it's partition on a hard drive without asking the user first.

Yes dual booting is possible. But as always installing windows second makes everything else unbootable (until fixed).

>without asking the user first

You must be kidding.

Why would she be?

Care to actually write a small bit about your opinion so that we can have a discussion?

Well last time I checked operating systems don't install themselves, a user has to download the setup or insert a disk and there are quite a few user agreement prompts before anything installs.

Yes, but the thing is that, when you do this with many other OSes, they install in a manner such that the other OSes on the machine still work. There's no warning that this isn't the case with Windows.

>Yes dual booting is possible. But as always installing windows second makes everything else unbootable (until fixed).

Yeah, I'm 100% sure you fucked up. Windows' bootloader offers me either Windows 8.1 or starting GRUB, from which I can start Linux.

Of course, the first option on Grub is Windows and the first option in Windows is Gub so I can get a nice bootloop.

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