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  • I don’t keep good enough track of windows updates to know whether dual boot would be an issue, but there is another option here.

    I use some proprietary tools for work that have zero chance of running on Linux. While I have a laptop for work, its… Too slow for most uses other than using it for calls and for doing presentations.

    So what I have set up is a few VMs on my proxmox hosts, but you van do this on the same machine if you want with qemu. I have an iso I’ve cleaned up for my use of Win 10, when I need to use an app I have a script that starts the VM, then I RDP into it. Most of them are CPU reliant, though the ones that do need the GPU heavily are in a VM with a pass through for a quadro.

    All the benefits of native operation with little to none of the windows headaches. I’m currently testing a few of them that now support 11 on a tiny11 build - less than 20GB in total for the IS and everything I’m running in there.

    The “drives” in the VM where everything gets stored are just mapped to the local proxmox host, so even though its writing to my NAS it just shows up as a D drive.

    I do recommend having the C drive be an image stored on an ssd though, it’ll be a much better experience than running it off a store on a NAS or something (which works just great for Linux VMs BTW).


















  • Yeah I’m not debating that there is fear mongering about this at all, just - as you noted - this is not about protecting users. Thats a farce.

    This is about Google trying to close up their ecosystem, device first. That is the issue I take with this whole situation, its a clear step in that direction being marketed as something it decidedly is not.

    And I think Android users should recognize what it actually is, and try to find a different option than Apple or Google going forward.


  • Good! I hope alternative mobile operating systems get traction out of this!

    We’ll see. The plan for now is a tcl flip with hotspot and a clamshell linux box in my pocket.

    And again, there is no verification need anymore!

    Please read the very first sentence in that slide. Then read through those steps again (and look at the steps inside of those steps).

    Yes, there is a need still, or there are a series of annoying, anti-consumer steps involved, in an effort to have a walled garden.

    Android and Google are not worth supporting over this. Again, not dealing with the play store first and thoroughly tells me this has nothing to do with security. If it did, they wouldn’t be going this route.