Can’t run Windows 11? Don’t want to? There are surprisingly legal options

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      7 hours ago

      Can’t say I would recommend dual booting both OSes off the same drive. Windows causes too many problems. Put Windows on an entirely separate drive instead and boot to it by changing the boot device in the BIOS.

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        6 hours ago

        I run a dual boot system with no issues at all. Just need a second drive for Linux and let GRUB chain load the Windows disk.

      • Steven McTowelie@lemm.ee
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        6 hours ago

        When’s the last time you tried? I had a hell of a time dual booting in ~2016, but as of the last five years or so I’ve set up half a dozen dual boots without issue, and Windows (LTSC) hasn’t messed up any of the partitions.

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      7 hours ago

      I have one, it still isn’t great. Windows update routinely fucks with it. Currently using windows as my daily driver because I can’t be arsed to fix my Linux partition again

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        7 hours ago

        This is basically what killed my Linux laptop. Some windows update borked the partitions (and not just grub) so that Linux wouldn’t boot anymore. I would never recommend using both on the same disk.

        I don’t really use that laptop for much anymore though.

        • Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          6 hours ago

          Yeah I wanted to use my new pcie 5.0 nvme for both Linux and windows but it’s not even being recognized as nvme in windows apparently, so I think I’m gonna reset all this shit and put windows on my old nvme and Linux on the new one but it’s a hassle.