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    [–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (16 children)

    Whoa.. this really happens? If so that's disgusting and doesn't seem legal. I was about to setup a dual boot for my laptop which has proprietary windows only software I need for work but now I guess i need to research a bit.

    [–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Whoa.. this really happens?

    No, the only thing that windows might do, is reset the bootloader so it skips grub. If you're using UEFI (which you should), you can easily restore it from your bios.

    I've only seen it happen on big updates, not the smaller ones.

    [–] eclipse 8 points 1 year ago

    Have had Windows remove my Grub entry plenty of times but have also had Windows "repair" partitions after a failed update which will nuke your Linux install.

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