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What to know before Dual Booting Windows + Linux? (lemmy.ca)
submitted 2 years ago* by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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I'm looking to finally use Linux properly and I'm planning to dual boot my laptop. There's enough storage to go around, and while I'm comfortable messing around I'd rather not have to run and buy a new device before school while fixing my current one.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VaIgbTOvAd0

This was the general guide I was planning to follow, just with KDE Plasma (or another KDE). I was going to keep windows the default, and boot into Linux as needed when I had time to learn and practice.

I assume it should be the near similar process for KDE Plasma?

I'm ok with things going wrong with the Linux install, but I'd like to keep the Windows install as safe as possible.

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[–] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Twice after a windows update I lost my bootloader menu and my laptop would boot straight into Windows. After the second time I just removed Windows. Some investigation revealed that "Windows does not support dual booting" which I believe translates to "we will ocationally cause issues that a beginner would struggle to fix in the hopes of them staying on Windows." Just a theory. Separate drives for sure if you can. No idea if they still do this as it's been years since I dual booted

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    They still do it (at least they did a couple months ago) and Windows even likes to erase or replace linux bootloaders when on separate drive in my experience.

    Annoyed me enough to remove Windows too. I'll never install that anywhere again

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Yes its horrible. This may happen during their weird updates.

    Interestingly you can swap drives Windows 11 and Fedora, it does "repair" bullshit at the beginning but works.

    If you never update windows (which is so horrible that you actually need to consider that) you can first install it, shrink it and install Linux.

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