On 2017-05-09 18:28, John Perry wrote:
Thanks, all,
Carl:
Yes, I bought this laptop in December 2012, just after it went out of production (you can get really good deals that way), and found all those comments. Apparently my machine wasn't affected because, as I said, until I went from W7 to W10 a couple of years ago, I had suse running in a dual-boot configuration.
I understood from your first post that you were using Linux as a virtual machine under Windows, that you did not have a double boot system.
Carlos:
Notice that M$ now recommends against the use of antivirus on W10.
Yes, I've seen those comments, which come across to me as pushing their own security facilities, rather than as denying others' (usually much better) qualities.
I know people that never used antivirus and have no virus on their systems. Just use safe practices.
The only problem I've ever had came when MS started downloading silently W10 updates and waiting for me to reboot. Actually, now that I think about it, I believe that's my own fault: I got tired of W10 reminding me several times a day to reboot and silenced the notification.
Yes. Just try to boot Windows 10 once a month. Updating it takes a day or two.
Are you installing Windows from scratch now? Take the opportunity to install leaving free partition space for Linux on the disk.
Already done. That's why this whole discussion is going on. :-)
Well, I'm completely confused now as to what is your disk and partition and boot layout. Please provide that lsblk output. I would also like you to run this script in Linux and upload the result to susepaste.org: https://github.com/arvidjaar/bootinfoscript/raw/master/bootinfoscript -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)