• Not_Alec_Baldwin@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I want to dual boot because I prefer Linux for everything but some niche games. Just never got around to it. This is pretty motivating.

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      1 year ago

      My reason was that I had heard windows 11 was considering ads in their file explorer. Win10 already has enough prompts pushing edge and OneDrive. That, and many of my professors use Linux, and the ease with which they would install Python or C compilers was too much.

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      1 year ago

      Do it. It’s not as hard as it used to be thanks to systemd-boot existing. I literally reinstalled Windows the other day and nothing happened to systemd-boot. GRUB, is a bit of a mess though.

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      1 year ago

      This is a good way if someone really Like some games not working on Linux. Also it can keep work and fun separated.

      I can recommend setting up encryption when installing Linux system to make Windows programs unable to access your files.

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      1 year ago

      The only issues I had with dual booting is an out of sync clock (due to Windows using local time), and Windows wiped one of my Linux drives (I installed Windows second, so unplug any unused drives before installing Windows). The last issue I am still unsure what caused it, however I remember installing Windows and the next time I use Linux the drive is empty.