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Or, if you want to only record and you're on Windows 10, just use the built-in game bar..

(No broadcasting, yet, but who knows? MS might add that in.)

If you don't like their decision, look for another manufacturer.

Yes, like a manufacturer who ships products with BEOS, who Microsoft threatened to squash by the power of monopoly. Oh wait, there are none left. These days you can buy a device that ships with Android and pony up only a nominal Microsoft tax. Plenty of options!

The real reason is application compatibility. An operating system is designed to run programs and like it or not Linux is not capable of running the programs the majority of desktop users want to run.

Beyond that there is the infighting and fragmentation. Go try and get a concensus on what Linux distro people should use, some suggest Ubuntu, then others pipe in about all the things wrong with Ubuntu and suggest Mint, then you get the reasons you should never use Mint, and of course you should never use any distro that has systemd, you should use Gentoo and compile it yourself. Why you ask? Well because you can read the sourcecode and see what it does, of course the open source philosophy doesn't work without people inspecting the code. Then you'll have the Unity vs Gnome vs KDE wars.

By this time it has gotten so far away from the idea of installing an operating system that probably won't run your programs that most people don't care anymore.

MFI program is Apple 'drm'. Apple can dictate the capabilities and the headphones that connect directly to the port. Think about Apple owning beats.

Bluetooth audio has no DRM. And they certainly allow a bunch of NON-MFI-Approved cables and adapters already.

Really? What cables and adapters? Because other sources say otherwise, and - since I have developed MFi products before - I know you must have an actual MFi authentication chip in order to negotiate with iOS to enable basically anything. Getting the chips requires enrolling in the MFi program, providing Apple with full details of what you want to make (and it better be compliant with the 1000+ page spec updated every 2 months), show that it passes all MFi certification testing, and then you can buy your MFi authentication chips (rather, your manufacturer can - you, the brand or designer, cannot - it is bought only by the manufacturer).

Now, you can get grey market chips (buy out overstock units) but that's a dicey market to deal in because it's not a steady supply. So you choice is play ball with Apple or don't play at all.

THIS. The linux-compatible subsystem is NOT installed by default, and a user has to go through a lot of non-easy hoops to get it installed. That is, it's not simply a matter of opening the Windows Store and clicking on a colorful icon of a skimpy-dressed female holding cash in one hand and a machine-gun in the other. There are a plurality of steps, all boring, any one of which would likely cause your typical sucker-user to lose interest.

However vulnerable this turns out to be ("hey, handsome, are you MAN enough to copy this BASH script and RUN it on your big firm Terminal?"), this net is NOT likely to catch a lot of fish.

Because the hosts file is inside /system, the device needs to be rooted in order to adb push a modified version. And that's if Android's networking stack even uses it; this comment claims that at least some versions do not.

Windows anniversary update:

http://www.howtogeek.com/24817...

Some useful group policy options no longer function on Windows 10 Professional and require Windows 10 Enterprise or Education. These include the ability to disable the lock screen, tips, and “Microsoft consumer experience” that downloads apps like Candy Crush Saga.

https://blogs.windows.com/wind...

http://www.pcworld.com/article...

http://www.ghacks.net/2016/07/...
Basically, all those things you turned off, you did through the group policy editor.

Store? Its on permanenty and you won't be able to disable it unless on enterprise.

That search bar? Its cortana and you won't be able to disable it for the same reason.

  All that tracking and ads same reason. So Aftre the 9th when all your hard work is undone and you get the real taste of 10 come back and share.

I recommend that you educate yourself a little:

http://www.howtogeek.com/20891...

Here is an excerpt from an email I recently wrote to my friends helping them to understand why they can't plug their laptops into their new 4K TV:

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Anyway, I wanted to point out that the symptoms you describe are in line with how HDCP works. Remember this feature is not actually your friend and unfortunately far from a "winner".

So what happens when the laptop is connected to the TV is the laptop tells the TV "hi, I'm a computer" and the TV replies with "hi I'm a TV" and then they discuss "do you do HDCP?" and they both say yes, then the laptop asks "do you promise to only play DRM content with a valid HDCP signature?" and the TV goes "nah, I'll play anything, that shit's for losers" and the laptop goes "yikes!" and drops the display and you see nothing.

All of that happens regardless of whether a video is playing or not, which would be incredibly frustrating for many people: imagine you'd bought such a screen for use in a school foyer to show news updates...

Anyway, HDCP was dreamed up by the content owners and has wide-spread fallout. Of course collateral damage is just accepted, and really is to be expected, when you treat everyone like a criminal...which brings up an even more important point: copyright infringement is a civil matter and is not a crime, despite what the lobby groups would have everyone believe...

Right, so there are (in theory) some nuclear options for dealing with this. It may be possible to flash the firmware of the TV so that it "lies" about it's promise to only display DRMed content. It should also be possible to flash the graphics adapter firmware so that it doesn't bother with the BS and just pumps out the HDMI signal as it should.

You can also buy "in between" boxes that sit between the computer and the TV and lie to both sides about what is going on, and basically pass through the image so that everything just works.
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my computer is from 2008, there is no point in getting w10 tied to a computer im not going to be using next winter when i get a new one, like literally no point whatsoever

Maybe there is. According to this, if you plan on building your own rig, then you might still consider reserving your Windows 10 license while the getting is still good because you may be able to transfer the license to your new machine by calling Microsoft and telling them you've upgraded your mobo. From a couple of Google searches, it appears that Microsoft tech support is pretty easy about activating licenses if you bother to call them.

On the other hand, if you're going to buy a system retail with Windows pre-installed, then yeah, probably not worth the effort.

I took the plunge and upgraded my last and more important PC this weekend, 'cause I don't want to be on the hook to pay $199 for a new Pro license when something forces me off 7.

I swear I'm not a shill; I bitch regularly about Microsoft because my job forces me to bear with it. But I was pleasantly surprised how well the in-place upgrade went. Nothing broke, even my old copy of Office 2003 (from my cold, dead hands...) The only thing the upgrade removed without asking were a couple of 3d-party diagnostic utilities like speccy, which doesn't bother me in the slightest. Even Steam fired back up without a hitch.

Now, about that ugliness. You don't have Aero transparency or rounded edges, but with Classic Shell and WinAero Tweeker, you can do a lot to make 10 more livable. A right-click on the taskbar can make Cortana go away, and ClassicShell separates Windows programs from Metro Apps in separate sub-menus, so you never have to look at them if you don't want to. Also, you do NOT have to use a Microsoft/Outlook cloud account. With this kind of setup, it's pretty much the same Windows as before.

Finally, I haven't tried this yet, but there's Spybot Anti-Beacon to address the "phone-home" issues that might be nagging you.

So, here's an idea to grab Windows 10 while its still free with the least risk. Shop for an SSD upgrade, like a 1TB Samsung Evo because damn it's gotten cheap. Clone your precious Windows 7/8/8.1 drive to the new SSD, remove it, set it aside. Then, perform an in-place upgrade as described here on the clone. Try it out. Something go wrong? Hate it? Swap back your old drive; clone again, do what you like. Your old build is safe and sound.

But here's the thing: according to the article, you have effectively retrieved/reserved your free Windows 10 license to use... whenever. If you want to try again in a few months, you can take a blank SSD and download/build Windows 10 from scratch, Microsoft will recognize your PC signature (assuming you haven't changed you mobo) and license you (just skip the part where it asks for a key). In the mean time, however, your old Windows will still work for as long as you want to keep it.

There. Assuming Microsoft doesn't wimp out and extend the deadline, you've just pocketed a $150-200 license for free to use any time you want.

I took the plunge and upgraded my last and more important PC this weekend, 'cause I don't want to be on the hook to pay $199 for a new Pro license when something forces me off 7.

I swear I'm not a shill; I bitch regularly about Microsoft because my job forces me to bear with it. But I was pleasantly surprised how well the in-place upgrade went. Nothing broke, even my old copy of Office 2003 (from my cold, dead hands...) The only thing the upgrade removed without asking were a couple of 3d-party diagnostic utilities like speccy, which doesn't bother me in the slightest. Even Steam fired back up without a hitch.

Now, about that ugliness. You don't have Aero transparency or rounded edges, but with Classic Shell and WinAero Tweeker, you can do a lot to make 10 more livable. A right-click on the taskbar can make Cortana go away, and ClassicShell separates Windows programs from Metro Apps in separate sub-menus, so you never have to look at them if you don't want to. Also, you do NOT have to use a Microsoft/Outlook cloud account. With this kind of setup, it's pretty much the same Windows as before.

Finally, I haven't tried this yet, but there's Spybot Anti-Beacon to address the "phone-home" issues that might be nagging you.

So, here's an idea to grab Windows 10 while its still free with the least risk. Shop for an SSD upgrade, like a 1TB Samsung Evo because damn it's gotten cheap. Clone your precious Windows 7/8/8.1 drive to the new SSD, remove it, set it aside. Then, perform an in-place upgrade as described here on the clone. Try it out. Something go wrong? Hate it? Swap back your old drive; clone again, do what you like. Your old build is safe and sound.

But here's the thing: according to the article, you have effectively retrieved/reserved your free Windows 10 license to use... whenever. If you want to try again in a few months, you can take a blank SSD and download/build Windows 10 from scratch, Microsoft will recognize your PC signature (assuming you haven't changed you mobo) and license you (just skip the part where it asks for a key). In the mean time, however, your old Windows will still work for as long as you want to keep it.

There. Assuming Microsoft doesn't wimp out and extend the deadline, you've just pocketed a $150-200 license for free to use any time you want.

- Play CDs, DVDs & Blu-ray

CD what? Xbox One can't rip CDs, and neither the PlayStation 4 nor the Wii U can even play CDs.

- Connect to video and audio content libraries in your home

How-To Geek's article claims that this happens through DLNA. I seem to remember certain PlayStation products in the past being very picky about DLNA implementation, not giving the user much useful troubleshooting information. How picky is the Xbox One's DLNA client, compared to (say) a living room PC? Does it support things like WebM (MKV container, VP8 or VP9 video, and Vorbis or Opus audio)?

Does this help: http://www.howtogeek.com/22434...

OSX doesn't even know how to backspace vs delete. Can't get used to that...

Sure it does. There are multiple ways to do that; and as the list I linked-to clearly shows, much, much more. In fact, OS X/macOS has a QUITE comprehensive list of Keyboard shortcuts, and with the ability to define your own, it is actually one of the Mac's most under-advertised features (because it just isn't sexy outside of the Neckbeard community). And it has only been part of OS X since version 10.0.0 came out FIFTEEN years ago, so I guess it's understandable why Hatebois like you have never heard of this...

BTW, for those too lazy to spend .00005 nanoseconds on Google looking it up (or .05 seconds following the above link), the keyboard shortcut(s) for "Forward-Delete", in case you are using a keyboard that doesn't have a Forward-Delete key (which IS supported in macOS/OS X) is either "Fn + Delete (Backspace)", or "Control + D". All three solutions work equally well.

Bottom line: Ya gotta learn to Troll better than that, you whiny little Hateboi(tm)...

Per-audio tab muting has been here for a while, try and keep up.

So when are we going to get this: https://threatpost.com/ibm-unv...

I mean it's not like I've been waiting or asking for it for years: https://it.slashdot.org/commen...
https://mobile.slashdot.org/co...

Shared key WPA2 means that anyone who knows the shared key can decrypt other people's traffic if they managed to sniff the 4-way handshake messages:
https://mrncciew.com/2014/08/1...
http://www.howtogeek.com/20433...

It's true using WiFi means you still have to trust the entity providing it, but that's the same with a wired network or using an ISP.

To those who say "use VPNs" I'd say:
1) Defense in depth
2) that's a different layer - just because you can workaround a broken layer doesn't mean the broken layer isn't broken. The fact is the layer already has encryption but it has a broken implementation which can be improved.

See: http://www.howtogeek.com/24326... and https://slashdot.org/story/16/...

You can do it in Firefox and Chrome.

They actually do allow that now.

That is a good example, up to a certain point. Eventually, you'll get clogged up with tons of apps you want to install for convenience, exactly the same way that browser shortcuts eventually need to be organized.

Will that mobile page not pull GPS? GPS is supported in HTML5. If it does, you could pin that to your home screen (using Chrome, with a shortcut) to accomplish the same thing. If you don't want to have their app installed...

I still see your point though. Pinning a URL might be more complicated than installing an app.

On the other hand I see QI charging as one of the best things to happen to phones in recent years, no more mucking around vs risking a flat battery. Removing QI from the 6P was a deal breaker for me.

As a counter-point, I think wireless charging (as it currently stands today) is a completely meh feature.

It has plenty of potential, but right now you're paying ten times more than a reversible cable - for pretty much the same limitations and a slower charging time.

This article explains my meh'ness better than I could.

• 1. Ever increasing ads in the start menu, lock screen, and wherever else Microsoft feels entitled to display them?
• 2. That the OS divulges your personal information to 107 domains?
• 3. Uncontrollable auto-updates that reboot while you're in the middle of your work?
• 4. When the OS deletes programs installed on your computer so you'll use the Microsoft equivalent instead?

Then the answer should be obvious.

So what's your favorite part about Windows 10, the 107 domains that the OS sends your personal information to, the uncontrollable auto-updates that reboot while you're in the middle of your work, or when the OS deletes programs installed on your computer so you'll use the Microsoft equivalent instead?

Fuck YOU Facebook.

So, to Opt out of being tracked by you, I have to go to yet another place (which is not obvious) and sign up to not be tracked. Fuck you world which allows this shit to be acceptable.

1) Use Tor
2) Use Incognito Mode
3) Time to block cookies, delete cookies, and so on.

http://www.howtogeek.com/63721...

Did I mention ... FUCK YOU FACEBOOK!

Microsoft certainly wants you to use cloud login, but it's not required. Granted they don't make it easy, but during install there is link to click to tell it to use a local username and password only. And you can decouple your login from your cloud login as well after the fact.

http://www.networkworld.com/ar...

http://www.howtogeek.com/23054...

How much does MS get paid for every Android phone sold?

Depending on the features included, Microsoft makes from $5 to $15 per Android phone. They get about $2B per year from Android licensing fees.

Oh, look! It's already happening.

But I'm sure Microsoft did not profit in any way financially from that ad.

Your phrase "not profit financially" is shifting the goalposts. The thread was about whether the telemetry data is being monetized.

Your first link was about pointing users, based on their usage, to apps that might might be relevant but they hadn't considered or noticed.

You're turning this into a semantics argument now. The original comment was that Microsoft was collecting info to make money -- we know that what the AC meant that they used the data in an activity (a "step 2") that made money, not that the act of spying itself gained them greenbacks.

But here you come. "Nuh-uhh! You have to do something with the info to make money.

And me: "Yeah, they are doing something with the info. Straight from the horses mouth, they use the data to tailor messages to users that appear on their Lock screens, in their Start menus, and in the lower-right corner of their monitors. These messages include suggestions for software products. Software products that are sometimes not free, and that Microsoft makes money off of, either indirectly through advertising revenue from the developers, or through direct compensation for making the product available via their own Windows App storefront.

I see a MS Office ad-blip almost every day at work. And no, I doesn't have to be a full-blown page extolling the virtues of Office to count as an advertisement. It appeared on-screen unannounced, it broke my attention from what I was doing (that corner is where system messages appear after all), and it wants me to seek info on a paid product -- It's an ad.

When I change the default browser on a Windows 10 machine at work to Firefox, it doesn't just change over -- it makes me go through what really is a page extolling the virtues of MS Edge, and then after declining that it changes over. That's also an advertisement. My usage of Edge over Firefox also benefits Microsoft in that they are able to collect more info based on my usage of their product, info that's used in marketing, or to help sell me into using other Microsoft services (like their web properties).

All of these activities benefit Microsoft financially in that they allow them to collect information on customers (current and potential) with a minimum of effort on their part. So this "you're shift goalposts" argument now is just horse shit. The information makes them money is the end result. Period.

Oh, look! It's already happening.

But I'm sure Microsoft did not profit in any way financially from that ad.

Your phrase "not profit financially" is shifting the goalposts. The thread was about whether the telemetry data is being monetized.

Your first link was about pointing users, based on their usage, to apps that might might be relevant but they hadn't considered or noticed. Unless and until MS goes down Apple's allegedly planned route of paid app-store search, that's not an example.

Your second example was about an ad for Tomb Raider being shown on the lock screen. Again, unless the telemetry influenced the decision to show that ad in such a way as to make Microsoft more money, it's again not an example. Maybe the ad would only be shown to users who have launched non-casual games in the past six months based on telemetry? and this would have made Microsoft money because they could sell the ad spot to Square Enix for a higher price? I can imagine that. (and indeed have never seen the ad myself, nor launched any games myself...)

Do you think that mystery step (2) in Windows is using it for targeted advertising? or something else? I find it hard to make the leap from telemetry like "anonymized data shows Solitaire is the third-most popular program" (made up datapoint) to "targeting ads to this customer is worth $XYZ", but maybe there's something there that I'm just not seeing.

Maybe you need a Spotlight to see it better.

If someone with a tablet hadn't used their stylus, Spotlight might display an image highlighting drawing apps. In his demonstration, Spotlight prompted users to download the Fresh Paint app. That's one of Microsoft's own apps, but Belfiore emphasized that this is about introducing users to the entire Windows ecosystem — a similar app suggestion slot is being placed right in the Start menu, too.

Oh, look! It's already happening.

But I'm sure Microsoft did not profit in any way financially from that ad. After all -- Rise of the Tomb Raider is not a Microsoft game, and I'm sure they're advertising it for Square Enix for free, right? And if you do buy Rise of the Tomb Raider, through the Windows Store as the ad suggests, Microsoft is going to forego their 30% cut. Right?

I myself work at Microsoft -- not in the Windows division; our division's product Visual Studio does collect opt-in telemetry, and our missing step (2) is nothing more sinister than "improve the product so that future customers are more likely to want to use it".

If you're in a different division I don't hold it against you. I'd chalk this up to "one hand not knowing what the other's doing" -- hardly a new thing at Microsoft.

>1) Spotlight has been in OSX forever and can be used to search web so potentially 'local search terms are sent out to the internet'. Same issue as windows search.

When you disable spotlight's web search it stays disabled.

>2) "Microsoft Accounts" to sign-in; again just retreading a feature OSX *already* has, where OSX prompts you to create an account tied to your AppleID with itunes, appstore, and icloud links.

And you can freely ignore this with no real drawbacks.

>3) App Store you can't remove... as discussed OSX had it years ago.

It's not that you can't remove it, you stupid fuck. It's that MS won't let the admin block it. Apple *does* allow MDM to restrict the app store to updating MDM installed apps and the OS only. Which is what MS just removed from their platform.

There's an app installed by default called "Get Office" that causes these occasional popup notifications that are advertising Office 365.

You can just delete this app or disable notifications for it in particular (it's also good to know you can control notifications on a per-app basis) and you won't see those "Get Office 365" popup notifications anymore. You certainly don't have to disable *all* notifications, as I actually like them for things like news, mail, etc.

It's annoying that they make you do this, but not nearly as hard to fix as the GWX thing. Some people have claimed that it comes back after you delete it, but that hasn't been my experience. Sigh... Microsoft is really bound and determined to make sure their users hate their guts with this heavy-handed crap. I completely agree that users shouldn't have to do this to make their system usable.

I hate these fucking system administrators removing anything they please. Fuck them. Why the fuck would you remove an app store? Are you fucking nuts? Better hand out fucking chromebooks to users if you do not want them to be able to use their laptops.

The Windows Store has been plagued with malware for years now: http://www.howtogeek.com/19499...

A sysadmin would be a lunatic to let anybody on his network into the WinStore!

Hell, here's another thing you flat-out, no joke, absolutely cannot do on the Apple Watch:

Set the current time.

No, not joking. It cannot be done. It takes the time off your phone, so you can't do something like purposely set your watch to be five minutes fast or synchronize it to some other time source that isn't "official" time and is off a bit.

So, yeah, no joke, the Apple Watch manages to be worse at telling time than a centuries old device. That takes skill, Apple, so completely missing the point as that.

Absolutely wrong.It's in the Settings menu, even the one on the watch itself (no need to set it on the phone, like some others).

You have to reinstall a Linux distribution if you want the full GNU/Linux toolset.

Duh.

And if you do that, you get a nag screen every time you boot it saying your OS isn't secure, and asking to reinstall chrome OS.

press ENTER to turn off VERIFICATION

Chrome OS is Linux (and if you don't like the Chrome UI, a normal DE is just a chroot away). Are you saying Linux isn't a real OS?

In Windows 10 it shows ads. Installing Windows 10 strips away your old ad-free version of Solitaire, too.

If you don't want to see ads, they offer a yearly subscription that lets you play Solitaire without ads.

If you cleverly kept your old executables, they won't work, but you can find a workaround here:
http://www.howtogeek.com/22512...

Even as a solitaire box, Windows 10 falls short. Linux, of course, still offers that game and many more!

Creating a new account on Windows 10 REQUIRES an e-mail address at Outlook.com

Actually you can still add a local user account during or after setup.

See also this and this.

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Your right its not quite that easy but it is still pretty simple.

From 2014 http://www.howtogeek.com/20433...

Wireshark had the capability to do it back then. If you want to prevent it the only option still considered secure against it is wpa2 enterprise which actually does give each device its own key.

I'll admit he is showing signs of developing alzheimer's, (No matter how much I explain, he still thinks "Foxfire" is his operating system) but windows update automatically downloading windows 10 in the background has been repeatedly posted on / and seems to be a pretty common issue:

http://www.cio.com/article/304...

http://winsupersite.com/window...

http://www.howtogeek.com/22855...

  http://www.theguardian.com/tec...

I really wish everyone would get together and come up with a standard for casting apps

Someone did, but as usual the big names don't want to use someone else's standard when they can sell you their proprietary junk.

http://www.howtogeek.com/20079...

Wireless charging is pointless

Waterproof would be cool.

Something many aren't aware of is if you change or upgrade your system you are subtracting numbers from a total allowed before your OS is no longer activated or legal and must be reactivated or re-purchased.

I use to know them for NT but it's been awhile. A CPU change I know counts as 2 points, a trick was to claim you had a NIC card as it added 2 points to the total.

“Significant” hardware changes can also trigger the Windows activation process again. For example, if you swap out multiple components on your PC at the same time, you may have to go through the activation process. Microsoft hasn’t explained exactly which hardware changes will trigger this.
http://www.howtogeek.com/18284...

There is a very useful tool for optimizing a new Windows 10 installation. I ran ccleaner (crap cleaner) on my Windows 10 machine, and it deleted all the system files. This may be the most useful utility ever written.

You can find the details in this article.

There is a very useful tool for optimizing a new Windows 10 installation. I ran ccleaner (crap cleaner) on my Windows 10 machine, and it deleted all the system files. This may be the most useful utility ever written.

You can find the details in this article.

I work in an enterprise and can tell you that Microsoft does provide the ability to disable all remote connectivity, including those connections used for its telemetry services. You just need to actually do the research on how to achieve the desired results. I have seen the Win 10 hate thread abound, and would just like to say that rather than childishly gripping about the company that produced the software, how about an intelligent conversation about what MS improved from a UI, usability, and security perspective? I am a firm believer in the right tool for the right job, and personally employ several flavors of Linux to achieve the technology goals I set. Blind hate only makes you uniformed, come to the light side.

The only job that Windows is the 'right tool' for is running programs that were written for Windows, where no Free alternative exists, and that can't be made to run via WINE or something similar.

Besides, this is not only a matter of being pragmatic. Using the right tool for the right job makes sense, but an operating system that contains telemetry with no easy way to turn it off (not all home users have access to Enterprise editions, and even fewer would know how to edit the registry, etc, without fouling something up) means that the Operating System now not only doesn't do what I tell it to do (disable all telemetry), but it now gives ads on the lock screen, reinstalls apps to "try Office" or "try Skype" after updates, and so on. That's the definition of malware, and, as such, has no place on any computer that I have control over.

http://www.howtogeek.com/22072...

No you can't endlessly defer updates: "But it is clear that you can’t defer these upgrades indefinitely." http://www.howtogeek.com/22308...

Only Professional, Enterprise, and Education editions of Windows 10 have the “Defer upgrades” option. Windows 10 Home does not. http://www.howtogeek.com/22308...

No you can't endlessly defer updates: "But it is clear that you can’t defer these upgrades indefinitely." http://www.howtogeek.com/22308...

Only Professional, Enterprise, and Education editions of Windows 10 have the “Defer upgrades” option. Windows 10 Home does not. http://www.howtogeek.com/22308...

you know you can boot any Linux distribution off of an SD card, right?

http://www.howtogeek.com/19105...

I lost a laptop to dual booting - turned the clock back two weeks for a PS2 saved game before registering the OS.

Just going to let sleeping dogs lie.

you know you can boot any Linux distribution off of an SD card, right?

http://www.howtogeek.com/19105...