Recently I had a hiccup with my main SSD drive. I have a dual boot Win/Kubuntu setup. Linux was crashing hard and Windows was giving me blue screens. After I resolved the issue (cooling/loose connection, idk) my Linux was doing fine, but Windows was giving me blue screens. I think it was doing an update when it crashed.
After a couple of hours messing with my recovery USB and booting in safe mode, I was able to fix the bad update and reboot normally.
I tried to open Firefox and it couldn't find the executable. Looking into the Program Files Mozilla folder, I found the .exe files had been renamed to .exe.sig??????
Then looking for the Edge browser, I suddenly found out that Microsoft Copilot AI had been installed!?!?!?!?!?!?
What the actual fuck???
I never wanted that trash on my PC! That's one of the reasons out of the many that I didn't want to use Windows 11.
And it's a weird fucking coincidence that Firefox was fucked. I couldn't even rename the files to .exe because they wouldn't execute. Looks like they were encrypted or some shit? What the fuck is Microsoft pulling?
It's a happy coincidence because you know what? I've been thinking about going full Linux install since all my games and Windows applications work with Steam, Proton and Bottles now.
I really don't see any fucking reason to keep using Windows. Fuck this shit and fuck Microsoft.
Edit: Oh and that's on top of all the other bullshit like forcing users to create a MS account to install Windows 10 now and having to jump through hoops to have an offline installation. And also defaulting to having all your user folder documents into their fucking One Drive cloud.
I'm done.
Yeah I definitely had an SSD issue. It's installed right above the graphics card which can get hot. I think it may have become loose. I let the PC cool and pushed it back in and it's fine now.
But that left some Windows files corrupted.
If you can afford it, slap a second SSD in there and mirror it with the first in Linux. If you've installed your OS on LVM, mirroring is trivial. If not, you can still do it with mdraid. That way, instead of getting shit on your head if something overheats or disconnects, you'll just get warnings in the logs to fix it. :D
They don't have to be on the same bus, or the same size, or the same brand. As long as the second one is the same or bigger in size, the above holds. I have a 512G Samsung mirrored with a 1T WD. One's installed on the board, the other is on a PCIe riser. It would still work if I connected it via USB3 enclosure.