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Thanks to Pete from Shawnee Mission for the ping!
1 posted on 08/27/2024 4:58:51 AM PDT by ShadowAce
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2 posted on 08/27/2024 4:59:07 AM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack )
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Meh. I have a dual boot sytem. Linux Mint 17 or Linux Mint 21. Tossed Winders 10 years ago.


3 posted on 08/27/2024 5:11:02 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Perfection is impossible. But if you pursue perfection...you may achieve excellence.)
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To: ShadowAce

“DOS isn’t done until Lotus won’t run.”

Old saying from early PC days, 40ish years ago.


4 posted on 08/27/2024 5:27:23 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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Anything that is labelled “advanced targeting” is not an accident. Yeah, targeting from MS. It offensive not defensive security. This was intentional and violates antitrust.

They think folks are stupid. And that arrogance and deceptive practice is why I told them to take a hike years ago.


6 posted on 08/27/2024 5:44:06 AM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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I am so glad I still have W7


7 posted on 08/27/2024 5:50:19 AM PDT by ducttape45 (Jeremiah 17:9, "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?")
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I have dual boot but windows is not allowed to connect to the web, therefor, not allowed to get updates. It’s a fresh win 7 pro install that is several years old.


8 posted on 08/27/2024 5:54:03 AM PDT by Pollard (Will work for high tunnel money!)
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Won’t break my dual boot- windows 7 which i use only in offline mode for windows only programs and games.


13 posted on 08/27/2024 6:32:37 AM PDT by Bob434
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This is like a car manufacturer disabling your car because you took it to an independent shop instead of their dealer shop.

How many people would actually put up with that arrogant concept and practice? Apparently a LOT. Because they just keep doing it.


14 posted on 08/27/2024 6:41:23 AM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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This is like a car manufacturer disabling your car because you took it to an independent shop instead of their dealer shop.

How many people would actually put up with that arrogant concept and practice? Apparently a LOT. Because they just keep doing it.


15 posted on 08/27/2024 6:41:23 AM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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At this point in my life there are only a handful of use cases for me to run Windows directly on hardware. I don’t play games but that would be one of them. As the author pointed out, Secure Boot is a mess from the ground up and it’s only on locked-down corporate windows workstations where it makes sense. Most hobbyists, developers, and dev-ops folks who using linux on a day-to-day basis aren’t dual-booting and likely have disabled secure boot already.

I recently replaced my laptop and immediately replaced the hard drive with a larger model and installed Linux. The first thing I disabled in the BIOS was the Secure Boot functionality.


16 posted on 08/27/2024 6:43:42 AM PDT by mjustice (Apparently common sense isn't so common.)
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My 2 laptops are duel boot Manjaro Linux and Windows 11 but my desktop has a hard drive hot swap bay and and an OS on each hard drive that I swap out as I need them ,LOL


17 posted on 08/27/2024 6:58:43 AM PDT by butlerweave
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Windows ain’t done till Linux don’t run?


18 posted on 08/27/2024 7:14:06 AM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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DUAL boot? Windows loads just fine as a VM under Linux /s


21 posted on 08/27/2024 7:25:53 AM PDT by i_robot73 (One could not count the number of *solutions*, if only govt followed\enforced the Constitution.)
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Part of the problem is the stupidity of anyone running any M$ system allowing auto-updates. Turn that off.

Want to imbibe MS updates? Let them stew for a couple of weeks to see if the stupid people out there have been crippled. If all goes well, allow the updates that are more than 2 weeks old.


22 posted on 08/27/2024 8:51:20 AM PDT by bobbo666
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Is this true with all versions of Windows or just Windows 11?


29 posted on 08/28/2024 1:25:56 AM PDT by McGruff (Are you better off than you were four years ago?)
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