Dual-boot

[JesseBassett]

Hello fellow techies,
I am wondering if any of you dual boot windows with another OS or MacOS with another OS? And I am curious as to how well your experiences with dual-booting have been? I presently dual-boot windows 11 and Ubuntu Mate 20.04. It seems to be working fine so far.

 

[jesuslover811]

Im sure its not that complex but I never really wanted to deal with it. Id rather just not use windows at all than learn to dual boot switching would be really annoying for me.

 

[Lost4words]

I dual boot Dr Martins with Adidas. Seems ok so far!

 

[Freth]

I dual boot Windows 10 and Linux Mint and don't have any issues. I don't have any experience with dual booting macOS.

 

[JesseBassett]

the macos dual boot I have had some issues with...but windows 11 and ubuntu none so far.

 

[Freth]

I'll most likely be switching to Linux eventually, and foregoing Windows 11 altogether. I have a Mac Mini but I don't like MacOS, so it gathers dust in a box in my closet.

 

[JesseBassett]

Freth,
Depending on which version of mac mini you have you could potentially put Windows 10 on it.

 

[jacks]

I remember advice for dual booting Window and Linux, was to load Windows first. Linux's boot manager was smart enough how to deal with an existing OS, but Windows had problems. I don't know if that still holds true.

 

[Freth]

Freth,
Depending on which version of mac mini you have you could potentially put Windows 10 on it.

I know. I could also install Linux on it. I'd rather keep it intact for now, considering I have hundreds of dollars worth of software on it. I know I can redownload it, but for now it's a time capsule that I may dig out later to use the software.

 

[JesseBassett]

I remember advice for dual booting Window and Linux, was to load Windows first. Linux's boot manager was smart enough how to deal with an existing OS, but Windows had problems. I don't know if that still holds true.

@jacks ,
It depends on the hardware of your device and if you install both windows and linux on uefi or not. If not, windows boots first. At least that has been the case for me.

 

[jacks]

@jacks ,
It depends on the hardware of your device and if you install both windows and linux on uefi or not. If not, windows boots first. At least that has been the case for me.

Yes, I believe you are correct. What I meant though was that when initially loading the operating systems on to the computer, to put Windows on first. Then after Windows is up and running, load the Linux OS. Once they are both on, one can choose which is the default boot OS. Now this was over 15 years ago, it may be that the order one puts the OS on initially may no longer matter.

 

[Sketcher]

I dual boot Windows with Debian.

It works, but I had to turn off fast boot in Windows. This should be done as soon as Windows is installed, then install Debian or whatever other distro you want to another partition.

 

[Pop D.]

I dual boot Linux Mint 20 XFCE and Windows 7. Only need to keep the old Windows installation around so I can use TrackIR with Falcon BMS and X-Plane, since Steam can run just about any game perfectly in Linux now.

 

[Anthony2019]

I used to dual boot my older Windows 98 system with what was then Suse Linux. These days I exclusively use Linux (Fedora Workstation) on my desktop and laptop computers.

 

[elytron]

I used to dual boot my older Windows 98 system with what was then Suse Linux. These days I exclusively use Linux (Fedora Workstation) on my desktop and laptop computers.

Have setup a couple dual boots in the far past. At the time Windows XP with Ubuntu. I no longer dual boot.

I am curious about Fedora Linux. Why do you prefer to use it? What do you like about Fedora?

Believe I read some place that Linus Torvalds also uses it, the creator of Linux.

I want to try Fedora on my spare laptop.

 

[adrianmonk]

Its fairly easy to get Windows and Linux or BSD dualbooting on a single drive. If you want to triple boot with MacOS (assuming you have a mac), bootcamp will get you going in setting up Windows, but having a 3rd OS with bootcamp makes it painful. If you have an older Mac Pro with multiple disks, you can setup one OS per disk and that is much easier to do.

 

[adrianmonk]

Have setup a couple dual boots in the far past. At the time Windows XP with Ubuntu. I no longer dual boot.

I am curious about Fedora Linux. Why do you prefer to use it? What do you like about Fedora?

Believe I read some place that Linus Torvalds also uses it, the creator of Linux.

I want to try Fedora on my spare laptop.

Fedora is where the initial research on systems get deployed prior to RHEL. They had systemd first, Wayland by default first, dnf package manager etc. Unlike RHEL, they are on a 6 month release cycle with no LTS. If you like something which is a bit more bleeding edge, then Fedora works great.

 

[Anthony2019]

Have setup a couple dual boots in the far past. At the time Windows XP with Ubuntu. I no longer dual boot.

I am curious about Fedora Linux. Why do you prefer to use it? What do you like about Fedora?

Believe I read some place that Linus Torvalds also uses it, the creator of Linux.

I want to try Fedora on my spare laptop.

Hi - sorry for the delay in reply!
I've tried a number of distros over the years and kept coming to Fedora, the main reason is that I have rarely had any problems with it.
It provides the right balance between new features and stability. I like to keep up "on the edge" with what's going on in the Linux world, but I don't want a rolling release system that risks breaking when updated. My experience with Fedora over recent years has been pretty flawless.
If you're using a laptop, then I highly recommend their flagship "workstation" edition.

 

[elytron]

Hi - sorry for the delay in reply!
I've tried a number of distros over the years and kept coming to Fedora, the main reason is that I have rarely had any problems with it.
It provides the right balance between new features and stability. I like to keep up "on the edge" with what's going on in the Linux world, but I don't want a rolling release system that risks breaking when updated. My experience with Fedora over recent years has been pretty flawless.
If you're using a laptop, then I highly recommend their flagship "workstation" edition.

I have Fedora 35 workstation installed. Stock GNOME on my System76 laptop.

Experienced first issue, computer wouldn't shutdown properly. So I install some extra system76 software packages to get it working good.

Fedora is where the initial research on systems get deployed prior to RHEL. They had systemd first, Wayland by default first, dnf package manager etc. Unlike RHEL, they are on a 6 month release cycle with no LTS. If you like something which is a bit more bleeding edge, then Fedora works great.

I do like to use the latest new software available. My main computer runs an Arch Linux based OS.

Hello fellow techies,
I am wondering if any of you dual boot windows with another OS or MacOS with another OS? And I am curious as to how well your experiences with dual-booting have been? I presently dual-boot windows 11 and Ubuntu Mate 20.04. It seems to be working fine so far.

My first dual boot experiment didn't go well and I had to reinstall. People over on Ubuntu Forums were helpful.

 

[adrianmonk]

I do like to use the latest new software available. My main computer runs an Arch Linux based OS.

I run Arch as my home lab server. I have kvm + qemu for virtualizing other systems.

When you say based, do you run Manjaro ? Or another Arch build ?

My first dual boot experiment didn't go well and I had to reinstall. People over on Ubuntu Forums were helpful.

After my very first Linux install on a 486 back in the day, I always made sure to set up one OS per drive. There was always a chance one of the installs would break the other, but having 2 disks makes it less likely. Now with UEFI this should not be an issue with 2 drives.