I was talking to my dad yesterday and he talked about how he dual booted windows and Linux in his college days. I immediately left to download Ubuntu, I feel so dumb for forgetting it’s an option. I literally only use windows so I can play Fortnite with friends. PSA: you can have both Linux and Windows, or you can use a vm in Linux. Be (mostly) free from Microsoft’s clammy hands.

  • Bluefruit@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    imo dual booting is kinda clunky. Id rather have a vm of windows tbh. I dont like restarting my pc to swtich OS.

    But hey if you like it, more power to you man.

      • Bluefruit@lemmy.world
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        7 months ago

        Ah I gotcha. Another option im considering is using a separate pc for windows and using a kvm to switch between them. That may be a good option for you as well if you can swing it.

  • bdonvr@thelemmy.club
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    7 months ago

    I always found having each OS have a separate physical drive is much better, but partitioning is fine if you must.

  • monsterpiece42@reddthat.com
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    7 months ago

    As others have said, I also highly recommend physically separate drives. I have found both Linux and Windows affect each other sometimes especially when you’re getting your bearings with dual booting.

    For instance, after running Linux the clock in Windows will be wrong. And Windows will eat the Linux boot partition especially after feature packs (formerly called service packs), which come out about 1-2/year.

    • BCsven@lemmy.ca
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      7 months ago

      Just install linux 2nd and have it probe foreign OS, and create a linux only boot partition. Grub will then make a chainloader entry to windows boot partition. Linux won’t care if you select windows chainload option, and Windows won’t know it ia being chainloaded. No OS overlap. just set Grub Boot entry as primary boot in BIOS, EFI.

    • callyral [he/they]@pawb.socialEnglish
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      7 months ago

      wait, you can have two different systems, on two SSDs, on the same computer? this will be useful once i get to build my pc. Thanks!

      i’m guessing having windows on a separate drive will mean that it won’t break GRUB?