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Greetings! So recently, i spent a few hours coding software. After i was done and i shut off my pc, i noticed both of the ethernet lights were on and blinking. Does this mean that Microsoft is sending data to their servers before the PC fully shuts off? I am scared that this might be the thing it does. How can i get rid of this issue? I have no idea if it's related to Windows or the PC itself.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I dualboot both Windows and Linux. I use windows just for pyinstaller and compiling, while i daily drive Arch Linux with dwm.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why windows for pyinstaller and compiling?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Well as you may know, when you try running pyinstaller on linux, it packs the .py file into a linux exectuable, not a windows executable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Very interesting! Thanks for the heads up. I didnt know that. 7 years ago, they already used wine for that. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44014390/how-to-generate-a-windows-executable-using-pyinstaller-on-linux#45065125

If all else fails you could also use a vm. Thats probably less dangerous than dual booting because of windows not playing nice with grub.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I dualboot both Windows and Linux using the BIOS's boot menu. Linux installed on a seprate drive, windows on another.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago