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Re:MSFT is forcing Outlook and Teams to open links in Edge a... by vladvasiliu on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @09:15AM (#35802006)
In my experience the worst it does is setting itself to boot automatically. It won't mess with secureboot keys or anything. In my case, I removed the pc's default ones and installed my own and signed ms's key with mine. It works fine.
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Re:MSFT is forcing Outlook and Teams to open links in Edge a... by nottorp on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @09:27AM (#35802118)
> In my experience the worst it does is setting itself to boot automatically.

In UEFI? If I have the OSes on separate physical disks I'm planning to use the bios to select what boots.

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Re:MSFT is forcing Outlook and Teams to open links in Edge a... by vladvasiliu on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @10:24AM (#35802772)
There's still a "default", at least on my PC.

But yeah, using the uefi works fine to choose between windows and linux, even if you only have a single /efi partition (I use efistub for linux, not a dedicated bootloader).

If you add custom boot options, they won't be removed after a windows install, it only adds itself to the list and sets itself as the first in line. Afterwards, it doesn't seem to touch that anymore, but YMMV with "big" updates.

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Re:MSFT is forcing Outlook and Teams to open links in Edge a... by speeder on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @02:45PM (#35806129)
I had OSes on separate disks. Win7 and Arch, used UEFI to choose who to boot.

Updated to Win10 and it somehow completely broke Linux boot. I could choose on UEFI to boot Linux but it wouldn't work. Eventually I gave up and reinstalled Linux

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