On 28 Nov 2016 09:11, "David Kastrup" <d...@gnu.org> wrote: > > > > > > > You mean, if it doesn't already own you. My father is a retired > professor of theoretical physics who is still publishing. He received a > final draft of such a paper back from a physics journal along with > instructions to put any corrections into PDF annotations. So I > installed Okular for him. > > Since the instructions were very detailed but only fit Acrobat Reader, > he decided to use that after all and started up Windows. Which decided > to do a few updates. > > The only partition on his computer that is now still a Linux partition > is the swap partition. > > Windows decided to update itself to Windows 10 (without asking back, of > course) and decided to move all of Windows 8 into recovery partitions. > Instead of partitioning off space from the existing Windows partition, > it decided to rather junk all the Linux partitions and repurpose them. > > This is why this is called the "Windows 10 anniversary edition": it's > like your wife celebrating your wedding anniversary by murdering your > mistress and draping her on your bed. > > It is quite unclear how much, if anything, will be salvageable from his > actual work environment. > > All of the Linux partitions are now "Windows recovery environment" or > "Microsoft basic data" partitions and it is not clear how much of the > original data will still be in there. > > Really, if you still have some dual boot environment, remove the Windows > partition as fast as you can before it destroys your system. > > Microsoft is taking the last stand on the desktop and will go down with > it. Don't let it take out its despair on your property. > > -- > David Kastrup
Hi David, It's terrible that you've had that experience, I've not heard of that happening - although I dual boot at home it hasn't happened to me... I've already got the "anniversary" update so may have dodged a bullet. However, the issue here isn't how bad Windows is ;-) It's worth pointing out, OS X is another option for running Sib. I had quite good success with Sibelius under WINE. Years ago though and I have no idea whether that would still work. Cheers Chris P.S. "it's like your wife celebrating your wedding anniversary by murdering your mistress and draping her on your bed" I laughed out loud :) Cheers, Chris P.S. "it's like your wife celebrating your wedding anniversary by murdering your mistress and draping her on your bed" I laughed out loud :)
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