I absolutely hate that github refuses to fix this
wow so it did end up being that same path issue. yeah, I'm not sure I understood their reasoning behind that setup working as intended in the ticket you linked. is cpptrace also affected by this, or was it just something specific you were doing in libasserts tests that was affected by the path issue? I tried setting up a VM for you using that ISO I mentioned but I think the installer must require certain HW/UEFI/tpm requirements that I had trouble nailing down to replicate for the VM so it was refusing to boot into the installer and didn't mention any reasons why it wouldn't boot lol. windows is becoming such a pain in the ass with the requirements they keep adding. I swear I have to nuke my windows install on most of my machines whenever I end up installing Linux on a 2nd disk to dual boot because of secure boot or whatever else in BIOS leads to windows just refusing to boot from the disk it was installed on before disabling shit like that. It happened to two of my machines in the past 2 weeks lol. At least now I noticed Rufus can disable secure boot & tpm requirements from the official windows 11 ISOs prior to burning it to a boot disk so hopefully that's the last time I'll have to deal with it. /rant