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Re:Hey Microsoft, Stop Installing Apps on My PC Without Asking by juliangoldsmith on Thursday February 15, 2018 @06:14PM (#16388624)
I agree with most of what the sibling post said, but the incompatible filesystems isn't much of an issue anymore.

In my experience, NTFS on Linux works very well. Certainly well enough for any average user.

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Re:Hey Microsoft, Stop Installing Apps on My PC Without Asking by emodendroket on Thursday February 15, 2018 @06:25PM (#16388682)
Oh, the last time I tried it it came with a bunch of disclaimers to never mount an NTFS filesystem as read/write on a hard drive whose contents you weren't OK with losing, but it's good to hear things have gotten better.
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Re:Hey Microsoft, Stop Installing Apps on My PC Without Asking by thomastjeffery on Friday February 16, 2018 @12:28AM (#16390097)
Everything that deals with filesystems or partitions has that kind of disclaimer.

There fact is that you should always backup data you care about.

It's the same as saying they aren't responsible for your computer suddenly catching fire. Is that likely to happen? No.

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Re:Hey Microsoft, Stop Installing Apps on My PC Without Asking by emodendroket on Friday February 16, 2018 @06:18AM (#16391560)
Not that kind of disclaimer but a serious one that corruption was very likely
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