Windows can’t fuck your bootloader if you never boot to Windows
Can you imagine how fluffing concerning it would be if it did though? Like what arbitrary code execution fluffery is this??
Maybe nest an install script in cpu microcode that executes at random power ons to install a minimal windows IoT for the sole reason of highjacking boot sequences?
Their linux should still be there, right? They just need to fix their bootloader. (and wipe Windows.) Right?
Yeah. I dual boot on an old laptop just in case I happen to need windows for something and sometimes the windows partition puts itself at the top of the boot order, but my Debian partition is still there and I just have to put it back at the top.
- back everything up
- wipe the drive
- install linux on it
- put windows in a VM
- profit
Telemetry problem microsoft?
I can’t trust windows enough to install it on the same ssd where my Linux distro reside.
solution: make a linux distro that deletes the windows bootloader
yeah windows sneeky snacking the bootloader was one of the reasons i quit dual booting a decade ago, have not missed windows a single moment since then
Place Grub and Linux on one drive (physical) and Windows on another is what I did.
And then put the second drive containing windows in one of those rock tumblers
I don’t doubt that it can happen but Windows has never messed with my GRUB even on major updates and even, IIRC, when “upgrading” from Windows 10 to 11.
Use sleep mode
