serious driver issues with a dual boot laptop

[Joom]

common sense

You're proving to me that you're severely lacking in this department. It seems like you're ignoring everything I've said because of this false confidence you have in an ability you have none of. Common sense denotes that you should keep your OS as up to date as possible. Again, someone can remotely (IE, not on your network) attack an unpatched system provided an exploit is found, and I have a good hunch there's some fun ones in 7 considering that it's still the mostly used Windows version. It dominates 48% of the Windows install base. A person also doesn't need to be on your Wi-Fi to hack you, but they can get you along with anyone and anything else connected to it through your insecure OS. Just like with video game consoles, hackers wait for an OS to fall out of support to release the good stuff. This is the stuff that disregards your antivirus, firewall, and "common sense". Don't like 10? Install Linux. You'll have a better time.

 

[Originality]

@Joom some people just don’t care about “potential” security risks of using outdated software. The only thing they’ll believe is what is in front of their eyes and anything else doesn’t concern them. You can’t really argue with that. It’s like trying to convince someone that the world is not flat when you look out of the window and everything you can see obviously looks flat.

Of course people in the tech world know better because they know how easy it is to embed a malicious exploit into a simple advertisement on even legitimate websites, and catch those who are unprotected to use in their bothers/etc. But then again, sometimes you can worry about such things too much and come out paranoid. The only way to be truly safe is to never go online, never connect to anything else (network or USB), and only use applications that you’ve programmed yourself.

TL;DR: You do you, and they’ll do them.

 

[Quadrotix]

You're proving to me that you're severely lacking in this department. It seems like you're ignoring everything I've said because of this false confidence you have in an ability you have none of. Common sense denotes that you should keep your OS as up to date as possible. Again, someone can remotely (IE, not on your network) attack an unpatched system provided an exploit is found, and I have a good hunch there's some fun ones in 7 considering that it's still the mostly used Windows version. It dominates 48% of the Windows install base. A person also doesn't need to be on your Wi-Fi to hack you, but they can get you along with anyone and anything else connected to it through your insecure OS. Just like with video game consoles, hackers wait for an OS to fall out of support to release the good stuff. This is the stuff that disregards your antivirus, firewall, and "common sense". Don't like 10? Install Linux. You'll have a better time.

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