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From: Jack Strangio  <jackstrangio@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: Using Debian to manage a multiple OS machine
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2024 06:01:37 -0000 (UTC)
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Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> writes:
> 
> This is probably the chicken-and-egg aspect of it. Probably the best is
> having an isolated (removable or otherwise unplugged) bootable medium
> ready in case it's needed.
> 
All computer users should have an emergency kit. The main component
of which being a bootable utilities system. In today's world, such a
bootable emergency kit is a Live/Install USB. And most of those have
a 'writable' partition that can be filled with extra utilities on top.

>
> I guess the main risk with multiple boot scenarios involving Windows is
> Windows wiping it out on purpose. (Or perhaps out of incompetence? I
> mean, it's said not to attribute to malice...)

Once you receive Windows on your new machine, you have a choice: erase
it competely or minimise it down to almost nothing. 

I tend to keep my Windows partitions after I have squeezed them down to
somewhere between 50 and 100 gigs on a multi-terabyte system. I don't know
why really, I only boot "real" Windows occasionally to run Windows Update.

On the rare occasions that I actually *use* Windows, it's a Windows 7* guest
on Linux VirtualBox so that I can run my HP multi-page scanner software.

* Windows 7 was "Peak Windows".


Jack
 
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