Re: Photoscore

[David Kastrup]

Urs Liska <address@hidden> 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?"

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David Kastrup