Oh I see. Yeah, I would prefer not to chance it security-wise. Which is funny because Microsoft IS the security risk.

Ok. Great.

Ok. Thanks.

Probably. It was a while ago.

Thank you.

Thanks but Fusion 360 says it will not work after January 1 on Windows 10. I might be able to migrate to FreeCad but I don’t have time to figure that out any time soon, plus I’m sure there are some games I’m going to be playing that the net says won’t work on Linux.

Can you elaborate a bit. I don’t understand the connection between the undersized Windows partition and the problem with a distro. Also is the fix to manually increase the size of that partition?

So should bitlocker be disabled?

Thanks.

Thanks. You rock!

This was my concern. So if I boot into Windows and it does a mandatory update, currently, it can’t effect the Linux install if it’s on a different physical drive? Do I have that correct?

Awesome. Thanks.

Thank you for your post. I think I will use two different drives and hopefully use Windows as little as possible.

Excellent. Thank you for the advice. Having the boott selection come up is perfect. It’s going to be a new build. I hope Linux is happy. Last time I did this I had all kinds of trouble and was advised to wait for people to write drivers.

Thank you. Using Linux to surf the net and Windows to game and use Fusion 360, would be ideal. Maybe over time I could drop Windows 11 altogether.

This allows me to keep my old windows 10 machine for all the things I do now. I could just take it offline since most of the stuff I use it for doesn’t require Internet connection.

I would agree with that. I just don’t have the level of hate for the old standard that everyone else seems to have. But as it was pointed out, this IS mildly infuriating so I can see that. My biggest complaint with it is that it is very hard to see which way it goes since the taper is subtle, especially if it’s dark.

Ok, that’s a good point. Probably the best one so far.

I guess my point was just that I’ve seen this hate in more than one place.

No. As I stated,I prefer the new standard but the hate for the old standard seems a little over the top to me.

I prefer the new standard too, but are you actually getting rid of perfectly functioning old stuff because of the connector?

Sounds like a real first world problem.