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Should You Cover Your Laptop Camera When It’s Not in Use? (www.consumerreports.org)
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[–] Artaca 18 points 2 days ago (3 children)

For some, particularly businesses reliant on software that can't perform on anything but Windows (and occasionally MacOS), sure. For individuals it is much easier. Installed Linux Mint a few months ago and I set up a VM for the stuff I truly needed some form of Windows for (tried dual booting for a bit but found that inconvenient). None of these are insane lengths, unless the cutoff for that is, "anything above minimal effort."

[–] Catpurple@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

In the past, I had dual booted windows and linux (Ubuntu, I believe), and eventually, windows managed to screw with the bootloader and brick the install. Never tried dual booting again. Windows VM on Linux is a much better solution.

[–] Don_alForno@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Every single time I boot up my windows install it screws up the boot order and I have to go into UEFI and force it to load GRUB on startup again. Fucking malware.

[–] spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 day ago

There's a reason that my windows install and my linux install are always on separate disks. Can't fuck up my bootloader if you don't know it exists.

[–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 0 points 2 days ago

and what access controls does limux provide forcamera access? because I haven't seen any such fearure yet. I'm all for linux but it does not help with webcam issues.

to solve this issue you do need to go insane lengths. like apparmor/selinux or whatnot.