Pride gets in the way of many things, especially progress and innovation, in Microsoft's case, it's holding on to the Window's O.S. If I were the new man at Microsoft, I would immediately set course to release two versions of Windows, and let people make the decision: One with the standard Window's filesystem and one built on the Unix/Linux kernel, like Apple has done. And above all lead with design. The possibilities of what they can do at that point would be endless. But you gotta let go of that pride first!!!
Not shocking. I'm writing this out of my Ubuntu partition and I'm running Windows 10, forced down my throat to begin with, and it just does what it wants when it wants to. I've had times when I've gone for a break and my laptop has rebooted and installing some updates I wasn't even aware of. And I'm running Windows out of sheer necessity for the time being because I need Illustrator, Photoshop, etc.. But Microsoft has really never cared for the user, more like you'll get what we give you and like it.
I was thinking of dual booting and relegating Windows to gaming, have you had any trouble with your setup? Especially with Windows updates messing up the boot settings or wiping partitions that they shouldn't?
Seems particularly risky now that MS is pushing out regular "major updates" like the anniversary update, which get handled like a system reinstall.
The only issue I had so far was that Mint wouldn't boot because Windows didn't actually shut down as instructed but went into default quick-boot mode, which made the Windows partition unmountable, which by default causes the Mint boot to fail. No other problems so far.
I had some issues with UEFI during install as well, but it worked out somehow.
Also, it seems that you can still feed the Windows 10 installer a Windows 7 key. I wanted Windows 7 initially, but the computer wouldn't have it.
Did you set the Windows partition to automount in `/etc/fstab` in Mint?
That would make Mint think that that mount is part of the system, and since the system isn't entirely available, the boot cannot proceed.
I suggest you add `nofail` to the mount options, and `nobootwait` on older that Ubuntu-16.04-derived Mint (doesn't run systemd) and `x-systemd.device-timeout=1` on Ubuntu-16.04+-derived Mint (should run systemd)
I haven't had any issues at all. The only minor inconvenience I have is needing to hit Esc immediately when my laptop is booting up so I can change what I want to boot into, the default being Windows. Now I'm running all this from an HP laptop that came with UEFI and not BIOS so I had to jump through a few hoops before it worked out.
Until the known good session does a small check over the internet and re-downloads and force reboots.
I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft put in code in Win10 that silently waits for an external condition (say, an HTTP response) such that the system seems "good" until then, and upon the condition renders your system unusable (at least in the way you want it).
Hollywood. What does that even mean anymore ? They've run out of good ideas along that ago and with all the writing talent in the world to boot. And its's not by accident. You've got MBA execs with not a atom in their soul about art or creativity calling the shots.
