Sup /g/, I have up to this point been your average windows user occasionally tinkering with linux, have taken some basic CSC courses, been familiar with it all my whole life.
But recently windows 10 auto installed with what I can only assume was some buried permission button I clicked while using windows 7.
This is upsetting, as I have known windows 10 to be anti-privacy, even more than 7. I'm taking the time to wipe my traces, hopefully not too late.
What I'd like to know is that if I set up two partitions on my hard drive, one with windows 7/10 for emailing/shitposting/etc. and one with a linux os, could the windows partition talk to the linux partition, read its content or anything on that scale. If so, would encryption be necessary? What steps would need to ensure whole security?
Also, general privacy thread I guess, any help would be appreciated.
>windows
>reading ext4
No, but even then if youre worried encyption is literally just 1 click while installing ubuntu.
>>55332088
Windows is very capable of reading and formatting in ext4, but I don't believe it could ever boot from the format.
And OP, just encrypt your Linux installation. If you're booting one OS at a time, as opposed to some kind of VM setup, Windows will only ever see an encrypted Linux partition.
>>55332068
I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called “Linux”, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU project.
There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called “Linux” distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.
