Windows eats partitions
It can still happen. Your UEFI settings are accessible from the system. That's part of the standard. So Windows sometimes rewrites these settings to make itself the default again.
2009 usually means you could indeed run it without an MBR: GPT format plus a very small (2MB) partition flagged to take over the functionality of containing a bootloader normally embedded in the MBR.
Correct. But Windows is not changing the BIOS boot order. It will however change your EFI to make itself the default boot again, even if you configured it to use a separate ESP on a completely separate disk and the boot menu residing there. That's by design as you can access your efi settings from a running system via software, while your chances to change your BIOS settings from outside the BIOS are slim to non-existent.
Also every BIOS not decades old can indead run with a hybrid setup of GPT formated disk with a small partiton to replace the MBR functionality.
In fact old BIOS systems are more resilient. With a separate bootload on another disk, starting from that disk and then chainloading Windows (on another disk) or Linux works very stable as Windows is not trying to change the boot order of BIOS.
But Windows likes to also meddle with UEFI. Even with separate disks each with their own ESP it likes to change you EFI settings to make windows the default again instead of the boot menu on another disk (everything on the same single ESP is even worse, because then Windows can access and delete everything now Windows and you have to restore the boot loader/menu).
So you like to pretend Windows rewriting your EFI entries and needing to be fixed is normal?
This has nothing to do with not being able to fix it in seconds. But with Windows indeed being destructive and trying to damage dual boot setup. That's not a feature because you know how to handle it.
Indirectly. Because perfectly well working hardware loses support constantly, long before you would actually need to replace it. Same planned obsolescence via artificially shortened support time frames as Android.
Windows likes to mess with the EFI partition on updates, scrweing up bootloaders. That you can prevent by separate EFI partition on another disk, This way Windows doesn't see the other efi files to boot. But when it feesl really obnoxious, it also edits your EFI table and sets itself as the default. That doesn't actually damage your linux boot files, but you still need to log back with some bootstick and revert the change, to make your bootloader/menu the default again.
That's the reason people often switch to Windows only as a VM (there are even solution to passthrough a dedicated graphics card just for Windows, if that's for gaming) after some time. Because Windows is actively working against other OS's on your computer.
In a way their Secure Boot bullshit is nothing different. Get vendors to include MS keys by default, then pretend that Windows is somehow more secure because you need to deactivate Secure Boot to install soemthing else (who cares that one key on every machine is not exactly secure, even more so as MS keys were already found in the wild in malware so they don't even know how to not lose them...)
The clock thing is normal. Windows doesn't like UTC clocks with local adjustment for timezone like every sane system does it.
About the resolution issue. Did you deactivate fast boot in Windows. That's a bullshit feature decreasing boot time by not actually shutting off. It's some kind of hybrid standby. And it can lead to all kinds of problems, like for example not properly shutting down and releasing control over hardware. Which then leads to stuff like graphics or network cards not working properly in linux.
Poland's reason to decide for Korean tanks is because of technology transfers promised. They want to build up their industry to compete with the existing ones. So it's really just Korea and the US. Everything else is European, so what they consider their competition.
Who cares? It's Poland. Their government hates Europe and dreams about reaching a level where they can compete with all those evil other countries' industries (the sole reason to buy Korean tanks is that those promised some tech transfers). They will of course only buy from the US and happily so... also in completely rediculous numbers they can't actually afford, because like any shitty right-wing government running purely on their own superiority and blaming other countries, it's important to have a strong military.
laughs in Wine
Yes and no. It's more akin to virtual system based on a running linux.
Yes, it's copied to ram. Which is also the reason you don't need to stop programs while live updating them.
The new version is only again copied from disk, when you start it at a later time.
Ok, something didn’t work, I now have to figure out what driver wasn’t supported and what I need to download.
Unlike in Windows where you never need to download drivers. As executable binaries you have no chance of checking. Sometimes from very questionable sources. And actually you can be happy if it's only a driver. Installing random 3rd party tools just to get basic functionality is a thing.
people on forums are helpful
Which also happens for Windows. But rarely. And if they really try... then there are still 10 different answers to a single problem and you have to test which one works for your specific version (no, chosing the most recent one sounds logical but is rarely the answer).
Now I gotta figure out this command line thing. Oh cool some people built GUIs for certain stuff so i don’t need to play with the command line
Which in what way is worse then editing random obscure values in the registry? Because it's a window you type in. And in the worst case even the Windows help starts with poweshell nowadays, which is exactly the same.
And then at some point I got stuck because of file permissions.
That's a solveable problem. Unlike in Windows where they put file permissions on top a file system not having them in a weird unintutive way. And don't ever try to change the wrong permission as an administrator as that's simply not allowed. After all you don't own your Windows PC, MS just gratiously allows you to use it.
So, you see... it's all a matter of perspective.
The West doesn't have a Modi problem. They have a problem with authoritarian morons in general, nowadays even more and more in their own ranks.
Or: humans are idiots, so they love to follow people who pretend they have a plan.
That wasn't the point.
They wrote a whole article about Europe's "atrophied and for so long neglected arms industry" yadda, yadda... and how Europe is thus struggle to even hit the 1 million shell per year mark aimed for.
And then at the very end they mention that the U.S.' own upscaled production even when reaching next year's production goals is only 50k/month.
So the U.S. arms industry is completely broken and in even worse state or the whole theme of the article is just bullshit as usual? Pick one.
That was a wild ride from usual narratives of atrophied European military production to "oh, and btw... the upscaled US production couldn't produce enough shells over the whole next year to plug just the gap left between production and their goals.
But hey, the first part is in the headline and barely anyone reads to the bottom of an article anyway, right?
What do you mean with "these people aren't Ukrainians". Do you believe this additional million does not need to be registered? That they don't cost money and that they bring their own housing and so somehow don't add to asylum seekers also needing a roof over their head?
But good that you at least mention them as it fits my point: Nobody actually ever mentions Ukrainians in the context of a million taking refuge here from the war. They are loudly talking about how the government is supposed to stop illegal immigration. As if it's illegal immigration that is driving this. And they pretend that -to paraphrase the popular narrative- the government needs to stop happily inviting every illegal immigrant. Fss... nobody does. It's in the word. They are illegally here. But those people know very well that they are not actually talking about illegal immigrants when they use these words (or some euphemism like "irregular migrants"). They try to conflate asylum seekers and refugees legally here, with some (basically, if you look at the scope they are pretending, imaginary numbers of) illegal immigrants with all immigrants and foreigners to fuel their xenophobic narratives.
I don't say that there aren't actual issues. Not giving some a way to integrate for example and having "eternal refugees" that will never see their country of origin suddenly becoming safe yet are kept on temporary permissions to stay again and again and again forever is one. You either give them a chance to integrate even when you only kept them originally because they could not be returned without risking their lifes (it's been a decade and more for some...) or you just forcefully deport them to their original homes anyway and see them killed. And no, I don't consider the latter option valid. Neither does the German constitution and everything we know about human rights.
What I'm saying is that the narratives that are pushed instead are made up and intentionally twisted to never talk about one group of people with actually fixable issues, but just a wild hodge podge of xenophobia disguised as a valid concern. And they are clearly build with a different goal in mind than "stopping illegal immigration" (as if there is anyone not agreeing) or "fix the amount of refugees". They could handle these with better integration instead of just hoarding them and pretending the problem will solver itself over time, they can fix the issue with clearer and enforced guidelines who can stay and who will be send back. But those people don't actually want that. They are the same guys trying to remove any existing integration flawed as it may be already. They are the ones not actually arguing for more efficient asylum system where people get processed faster, the ones accepted get more help to integrate and the others are returned more quickly. Nope, they are trying to cut asylum laws and prevent anyone from legally applyiing in the first place. (Or to quote one of our right-wing morons: "Who cares on which border refugess get shot?") And that's the reason they also try to conflate every form of migration and legitimate refugees with illegal immigration (usually of course adding that they are just social leeches wanting to live care free off of Germany welfare anyway - Fun fact: that populist morons now leading the biggest conservative party has also tried if he can talk about Ukrainian welfare tourists or if the backslash is too heavy... and then quickly walked back with some non-apology).
Just today the biggest public broadcaster published a story about how chancellor Scholz "talked out against 'irregular immigration'". But that's bullshit. There are basically only two defintions of the word: the official one (=illegal immigrants) and the right-wing dog whistle. When they tell us this in response to a sensible comment of basically "Yes, the asylum laws and rights of legitimate refugees should not be weakened. There's no discussion here. But obviously illegal immigrants should be send back." what do they want to tell us exactly? Are they trying to present the fact that our chancellor is -like everyone else- against illegal immigration as some kind of news? Or are they intentionally using the dog-whistle version instead so it becomes a story? A false one obviously, too. But a story they want to tell us. I think you can answer that one yourself...
The moment you show me the media/political discussion actually talking about sensible measures to fix some immigration issue (so... better integration for some, being send back quicker for others, coupled with ideas that are not clearly in violation of human rights -and the constitution obviously-) I will bite. As long as this is not the discussion I will also not acknowledge it as talking about "problems with refugees" as that's just a pretense, not the actual thing they talk about.
The country received 322,000 asylum requests last year,
So nothing unusual compared to nearly 800k in 2016...
second only to the much larger U.S.,
Also nothing new, the U.S. has always been loudly talking about being an immigation country when in reality immigration isn't exceptional high compared to their size and they are only talking about a long past historical fact.
and is struggling to cope
Nope, only struggling against being drowned in that same right narrative pushed here...
Unsurprising with that being just the headline everything following is also bullshit.
That's actually more safe. Windows can rewrite the UEFI setting to make itself the default again (although that's of course easy to fix). But it can't change your BIOS boot order.