7 Common Linux Myths You Should Stop Believing (www.howtogeek.com)

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I have not had an issue in... 9 years? Though I use separate physical drives which might help. I wouldn't let that scare people away

Edit: I'm also using rEFInd Boot Manager. I have about 5 operating systems that I can boot into (good way to try various Linux distros)

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Same here. That's pretty much a myth. I also have a couple laptops that still have a small windows partition and never had any issues.

That happened ages ago and gets blindly parroted to this day. I'm fairly convinced it's the same with the nVidia stories.

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