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Is it safe to upgrade to paid version of a distro if I'm dual booting?
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this post was submitted on 12 May 2025
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If you want to support a *nix distro, that's awesome and I fully support you. What you shouldn't support is distributions locking features behind a paywall.
This is how you get Microsoft Windows and Copilot.
To answer your question--Windows is destructive to *nix boot sectors. When you update Windows, it will bork your *nix install. Dual booting with Windows is a real PITA.
According to this comment
https://lemmy.world/post/29546682/17016426
it's not absolutely proprietary. It's just Free Software they are selling, which is approved by Root Mean Square.
I didn't imply that Zorin was proprietary. I'm demeaning the actions of pay-walling a free OS as a proprietary action.