The traditional approach has a lot of potential problems.

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OK, hands up: how many of you have burned a Knoppix Linux-on-bootable-CD disk, or someting similar, to try out the free operating system without messing with Windows? That might have just got a lot ...

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Let's stop Windows from gaslighting you and show you your Linux files.