I have the best of both worlds. Turn my laptop on and it will automatically boot into Windows without even so much as a password prompt. From there I have Prey installed so I can track it.
I never use this Windows installation though and it contains no valuable/personal data. It's effectively a honey-pot operation system. I have a Linux installation on there too (my "real" os) which takes up the vast majority of the drive and uses full disk encryption. I insert a USB stick at startup which contains the boot partition+loader and boot from that.
I never use this Windows installation though and it contains no valuable/personal data. It's effectively a honey-pot operation system. I have a Linux installation on there too (my "real" os) which takes up the vast majority of the drive and uses full disk encryption. I insert a USB stick at startup which contains the boot partition+loader and boot from that.
I wrote it up here: https://grepular.com/Protecting_a_Laptop_from_Simple_and_Sop...