• Otter@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    This looks cool!

    lets you update whenever you want (e.g. not before a big deadline)

    This is such a big plus, I was extra cautious that an update would break something right before finals

    Any resources on dual booting? I didn’t have a great experience with it and I feel like students may prefer that for the programs that only offer windows / macos support.

    University courses are usually “we only offer support for Windows & MacOS”, so a lot of students may give up on Linux unless they have the backup.

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      What I’ve understood thus far on dual booting is that it’s never really safe unless you keep the two OS installations on different drives with each its own boot partition, so you never risk of one overwriting the other.
      You can still try to install on a single drive, but, unless things have changed, you should make sure that Windows (don’t know about macOS) is installed first and then you install a distribution second, you’ll have trouble if it’s a Fedora immutable flavor though because in my experience that erases the boot partition as well

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        @QuazarOmega @otter if you plan on using bitlocker with windows, make sure to keep that recovery key handy. Updating grub/the kernel might trigger changes to the boot settings of your device, locking windows.

        Getting a cheap device from a thriftshop for your second os should be considered as an option. Just my 2ct.

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          Seconded, fortunately Windows makes you save that immediately after enabling it so I still had that key on me and Fedora has the ability to mount BitLocker encrypted drives so I was able to recover all my data