Urs Liska <[email protected]> writes: > Am 28.11.2016 um 10:11 schrieb David Kastrup: > >> All of the Linux partitions are now "Windows recovery environment" or >> "Microsoft basic data" partitions and it is not clear how much of the >> original data will still be in there. >> >> Really, if you still have some dual boot environment, remove the Windows >> partition as fast as you can before it destroys your system. >> >> Microsoft is taking the last stand on the desktop and will go down with >> it. Don't let it take out its despair on your property. > > Wow. > One more reason to fight as hard as possible to keep my wife (or rather > her brother) from insisting to go beyond Windows 7 on her PC (I think > getting my wife to use Linux would rather involve getting a new wife > first ;-) )
Your wife will not be able to keep Windows 7 unless you install tools that keep the Windows 10 malware out. Those tools need to be frequently updated since Microsoft tries working around them. It's not just Linux that gets destroyed: you'll find that even people who merely maintain several Windows partitions on their disk have reported similar damage: the Windows 10 updater just sacrifices extra partitions in order to do its deeds. At the moment, the largest malware danger by far is Microsoft. So your system is safest from data loss by disabling updates while you still can. It's like a tenant who decided to redecorate. Just that all the furniture was yours. So you ask him what he did with it. "Oh, don't worry. I put all that stuff up in the top floor and the garbage collectors will be only around in a month, and until then you might decide to move the stuff back." "Uh, how did you get into the top floor appartment?" "I broke the lock and exchanged it. Also exchanged the door bell tags, the top floor appartment is mine now. By the way, I killed the tenants and had their furniture removed and a few walls broken out. But if you decide you want to have the top floor back, I am sure we will find a way to accommodate you." "Uh, I'm the owner? You realize that?" "What makes you think that?" -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
