Another option for some is the Windows Subsystem for Linux <https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/> which I demo'd at an earlier GTALUG meeting. No boot issues, fewer graphics and PulseAudio problems, and it works fairly well for the light loads I have given it.
Evan Leibovitch, Toronto Canada @evanleibovitch / @el56 On Fri, Mar 4, 2022 at 11:27 AM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk <[email protected]> wrote: > Most computers come with Microsoft Windows. If you insist on buying a > computer without Windows, you have less choice and may have to pay more. > Besides, once in a blue moon Windows is useful. > > To install Linux, you can either blow away Windows (easy!) or your can > install Linux beside Windows. > > If you want to install Linux beside Windows, you usually have to get > Windows to relinquish some disk space. (Alternatively you might be able > to add another disk.) > > Windows has a way of reducing the size of a volume but it is unwilling to > relocate a structure that is in the middle of the volume. So it is only > willing to give up slightly less than half of the volume. > > I use gparted (ntfresize is underneath) to shrink a Windows NTFS volume, > because I always want to shrink in to less than 50% of its original size. > I do this from a live Linux flash drive. > > Here are the tricks that are not so obvious: > > - if Windows is using bitlocker, you need to turn that off in Windows. > Otherwise gparted cannot do anything with the partition. > > Our newest computer came with bitlocker enabled (with no password). > That's probably a good idea but not for us. > > After bitlocker is turned off, gparted can operate. > > Perhaps you can turn it on again after resizing. I don't know. > > (On Windows: Settings: Privacy & Security: Device Encryption) > > - By default, Windows assumes that it can leave the filesystem in an > inconsistent state when it shuts down. It assumes that you'll boot > Windows again when you power the system up. Apparently this speeds > things up a little bit. > > This is very unhealthy if you are going to boot Linux next, > especially if you are going to run gparted to muck with the NTFS > filesystem. > > You can fix this by going to Windows' Control Panel (which is something > different from Settings), Power Settings, and untick "turn on fast > startup (recommended)". It is slightly tricky because you have to click > some option to allow you to change the fast startup option. Sheesh. > > - (old advice; may be obsolete; I don't wish to find out the hard way that > it is still needed.) > After you have resized the NTFS partition, reboot to Windows. Don't do > anything else with the disk in Linux first. > Why: it used to be the case that gparted got something slightly wrong in > the NTFS partition, something that a Windows boot fixed silently. > After booting Windows, you can reboot to a Linux install medium safely. > --- > Post to this mailing list [email protected] > Unsubscribe from this mailing list > https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk >
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