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With Windows 10, Microsoft Disregards User Choice and Privacy

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Re: With Windows 10, Microsoft Disregards User Choice and Privacy

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I was thinking of dual booting and relegating Windows to gaming, have you had any trouble with your setup? Especially with Windows updates messing up the boot settings or wiping partitions that they shouldn't? Seems particularly risky now that MS is pushing out regular "major updates" like the anniversary update, which get handled like a system reinstall.

The only issue I had so far was that Mint wouldn't boot because Windows didn't actually shut down as instructed but went into default quick-boot mode, which made the Windows partition unmountable, which by default causes the Mint boot to fail. No other problems so far. I had some issues with UEFI during install as well, but it worked out somehow. Also, it seems that you can still feed the Windows 10 installer a Windo…

Did you set the Windows partition to automount in `/etc/fstab` in Mint?

That would make Mint think that that mount is part of the system, and since the system isn't entirely available, the boot cannot proceed.

I suggest you add `nofail` to the mount options, and `nobootwait` on older that Ubuntu-16.04-derived Mint (doesn't run systemd) and `x-systemd.device-timeout=1` on Ubuntu-16.04+-derived Mint (should run systemd)

Re: With Windows 10, Microsoft Disregards User Choice and Privacy

#412
post #259

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The only issue I had so far was that Mint wouldn't boot because Windows didn't actually shut down as instructed but went into default quick-boot mode, which made the Windows partition unmountable, which by default causes the Mint boot to fail. No other problems so far. I had some issues with UEFI during install as well, but it worked out somehow. Also, it seems that you can still feed the Windows 10 installer a Windo…

Did you set the Windows partition to automount in `/etc/fstab` in Mint? That would make Mint think that that mount is part of the system, and since the system isn't entirely available, the boot cannot proceed. I suggest you add `nofail` to the mount options, and `nobootwait` on older that Ubuntu-16.04-derived Mint (doesn't run systemd) and `x-systemd.device-timeout=1` on Ubuntu-16.04+-derived Mint (should run systemd…

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Re: With Windows 10, Microsoft Disregards User Choice and Privacy

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post #178

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Why does Windows 10 now phone home to domains like ad.doubleclick.net and adnexus.net?

Metro applets do it. You can remove these from Start menu.

I've been watching like a hawk for the past couple of weeks and not found anything that does it, so I assumed it was just made up. However, the only app I use is Microsoft Health.
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