OK I found a sort of bummer thing about my idea to play around with Knoppix. While I can access all the files on my C drive even when I’m booted into Knoppix instead of Windows, I can’t edit any of my MS Office files in OpenOffice. They open as read-only, and when I try to edit anything I get an “access rights” error. HTML, text, JPG, and other files open and can be edited fine, however. So there’s still some things I can mess around with in there. 🙂
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