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What are your opinions regarding:
- privacy-focused email providers such as Protonmail, Tutanota, Startmail, and Posteo
- IPVanish, Proton VPN, and Mozilla VPN
- AOSP Extended (Android ROM)
- Ecosia browser on Android
I strongly advise against doing that unless you want to give yourself elevated heart levels for 1-3 days. Just use virtual box if you just want to test an OS. It will run the is off a file it makes instead of a full partition. Or install it on a separate disk, like a USB drive, and select which to boot with your bios.
Otherwise it really depends on what existing partition scheme is on your disk. Making a new partition usually requires wiping your disk. If you already have a partition ready, then you should be able to select that partition in some “advanced” option of its installer (which I am not familiar with).
If you do choose to “dual-boot” a Linux and windows or whatever, understand that partitions aren’t the hardest part. Its getting the boot-loader right. Because you’ll need to be able to select which OS you want to run. You must have the Linux bootloader installed as the default and have that configured to boot windows or your Linux OS.
The first time I installed Linux was trying to dual boot Arch Linux and Windows 7. Took me a week but I’m better at Linux now.
Is Proton VPN a good alternative to Mullvad?
Whenever I hear any talk about VPNs, my mind always goes back to that one Tom Scott video. He’s a cool guy so I believe his claim - but that raises doubts about all the companies.
Wikileaks has more on this if you want to get into the weeds. Use a VPN: https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/ . Some are router exploits, some are backdoors, some are forced entry via hardware (EG: USBs). Don’t trust the pigs.
Also suggest this quick privacy/anonymity guide I wrote a while back for /c/tactics, if I may.
