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Windows 11 to add an AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders, warns of security risk (www.windowslatest.com)
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[–] 60 points 10 months ago (8 children)

"I see you are dual booting with Linux? I've reformatted that partition for you."

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  • [–] 13 points 10 months ago* (2 children)

    I had this happen before but not in recent times. Not sure if others have experienced the same.

    For a while I had my bootloader on a single drive but I now have my Linux bootloader on /dev/sda and my windows on /dev/sdb and toggle it in the bios when I need to use Windows. I haven't had Windows overwrite anything in a long time. Could be a coincidence though.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago

    It’s mostly an issue when you have them sharing boot drives via partitions. If you keep them isolated to their own separate drives, Windows doesn’t tend to muck with things. It’s because Windows is bad about killing bootloaders, and automatically setting itself as the default in the boot order. So if you have it sharing a drive, it’ll nuke your boot. But if you don’t have them sharing a drive, and boot via a loader on the Linux drive, there is no boot loader on the Windows drive to nuke.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago

    I've read that dual booting Windows and Linux can have temperamental quirks and I've had my share of them.

    Now, if I'm doing that, Windows fs gets isolated and I refuse to even connect it to the internet. But, outside of a legacy automotive shop program meant for XP, I've not needed Windows for a couple years.

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  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    One of the reasons why I never dual boot. Unfucking GRUB is not on my priority lists.

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Only dualboot with windows on a separate drive, that hasn't given me any issues in the past 5 years or so

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Just make sure to unplug all non-Windows drives when installing Windows. Otherwise it can do weird things like making unilateral decisions on which exact drive it shoves its bootloader on. I've wiped my Linux drive when changing to another distro aaaaand the Windows bootloader was gone too. It really shouldn't have been.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    Yeah whenever I set up a computer with dual boot it's always Windows first, then Linux. Windows assumes it's the only OS that exists so if there's something else there it just ignores it and writes over the boot thingy. Linux actually bothers to look for anything else that's installed and works around it.

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