can i easily install windows 10 back onto my pc for a dual boot? :(

[virtualtelegrams]

Oh dang good luck. IDK much about partitions but if you set them in/during the Windows install/setup process from the USB installer it should probably, hopefully, maybe work. Possibly.

I've never installed Windows from USB though. So IDK. Whatever ends up happening I hope you have fun with it haha.

[starbreaker]

i acidentally uninstalled the. OS. guys?

Do you have a USB stick with a Windows 10 installer? If not, congratulations on your new cat warmer.

[testtubesterone]

on a laptop i would not suggest dual booting! just because windows is a fairly heavy OS, you wont have much space for anything else! you could use some kind of external storage if you really wanted, but imo it's not worth it unless you are using a desktop or something that can handle running 2 OS

[vvinrg]

i thought i had finally did it. and then guess what happened,

it gave me some error and i searched for an answer and none of it worked,.

I've only seen this issue on newer laptops. Did the laptop come running Windows 10 or Windows 11? If the latter, that's likely the culprit.

As for the entire goal, yeah, a clean install is best. Windows borderline refuses to install as the second entity in a dual-boot. It's always recommended to install Windows and then your Linux distro, to make life easier.

Where did you get the install ISO? The best spot is here, that is, assuming you have a spare machine to write the ISO with(check your local library!).

i'm aware of wine and grapefruit but the wine available on the kde app store doesn't even run? i tried to install it through the terminal and didn't work either

if, by this, you mean you ran just `wine`, yeah, that won't work. wine does nothing without an additional binary. last I checked, roblox has started blocking wine when it detects it. grapejuice seems to also be struggling with this, as the project's README currently states "🔴 Roblox not work currently. A new feature causes system integrity checks to fail on Wine. The result of this is that your client will crash after a couple of minutes of play time."

I hope some of that's helpful, and godspeed to your windows install attempts.

[egbert]

I've only seen this issue on newer laptops. Did the laptop come running Windows 10 or Windows 11? If the latter, that's likely the culprit.

As for the entire goal, yeah, a clean install is best. Windows borderline refuses to install as the second entity in a dual-boot. It's always recommended to install Windows and then your Linux distro, to make life easier.

Where did you get the install ISO? The best spot is here, that is, assuming you have a spare machine to write the ISO with(check your local library!).

if, by this, you mean you ran just `wine`, yeah, that won't work. wine does nothing without an additional binary. last I checked, roblox has started blocking wine when it detects it. grapejuice seems to also be struggling with this, as the project's README currently states "🔴 Roblox not work currently. A new feature causes system integrity checks to fail on Wine. The result of this is that your client will crash after a couple of minutes of play time."

I hope some of that's helpful, and godspeed to your windows install attempts.

nuh huh. im not touching diy system installs ever again