I have multi boot since 20 or more years ago without issues. I once had a system with Windows XP, Windows 2000, two flavors of Linux and OpenBSD at the same time. I believe Grub on one Linux was the one managing everything, it was a long time ago...
It was not a PoC, it was my daily driver. Ubuntu was my main system, Gentoo was the Linux I was learning, I had windows 2000 since I built the system and refused to kill it and has some games there that lost the installation disk, Windows XP for the new games, and OpenBSD because why not? I had one vfat partition for sharing files between everybody, it worked. On Fri, Jul 28, 2023, 04:05 D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk <[email protected]> wrote: > | From: Gron Arthur via talk <[email protected]> > | > | Thinking of buying a Dell 3571 and making it dual boot with Windows and > | Debian. Main reason for Windows is, I want Nikon's ViewNX software for my > | DSLR camera and can't for the life of me figure out how to run it off an > | emulator. > | > | Does anyone see an issue with a setting up a dual boot? > > The Precision 3571 comes with an NVidia GPU. I find them annoying because > of lack of open source drivers. The closed source drivers work amazingly > well considering that they are out-of-tree. I don't need a discrete GPU > but perhaps you do. > > My computers usually come with Windows. For those computers, I almost > always install Linux without deleting Windows. > > I find it easy to set up dual boot, but that may well be due to lots > of practice. There are often little problems that I know how to deal > with. Here are a few: > > - Windows, by default, potentially leaves the filesystems in an > inconsistent state when it is shut down! > > To fix this, on Windows: > > Control Panel: > Hardware and Sound: > Power Options > Choose what the power button does: > > click "change settings that are currently unavailable" > > Under "Shutdown Settings" > UN-check "Turn on fast startup" > > click "save changes" > > > - how to make room for Linux on the disk. Windows can resize filesystems > but it won't release more than 50%. You probably want more released. > > 1. boot a live Linux system and use gparted to shrink Windows partitions > to make enough space. I generally leave Windows about 100G > > 2. boot Windows and ask it to fix the filesystem that you shrunk. > (gparted leaves something not quite right but Windows knows how to > fix it) > > 3. boot the Linux install medium and proceed to install. > > > Why do I use dual boot? > > - warranty support almost always requires Windows > > - I paid for it, why throw it away? See "Sunk Cost Fallacy" > > - most systems require Windows for firmware updates. > It used to be that you could do firmware updates from a bootable > DOS floppy or USB stick but that's almost dead. > Some vendors support Linux through fwupd. > > - once in a blue moon I have something that I want to use Windows for. > That means I only need to have Windows on one computer, not many. > > Summary: mostly habit. > --- > Post to this mailing list [email protected] > Unsubscribe from this mailing list > https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk >
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