I was talking to my dad yesterday and he talked about how he dual booted windows and Linux in his college days. I immediately left to download Ubuntu, I feel so dumb for forgetting it’s an option. I literally only use windows so I can play Fortnite with friends. PSA: you can have both Linux and Windows, or you can use a vm in Linux. Be (mostly) free from Microsoft’s clammy hands.

    • callyral [he/they]@pawb.socialEnglish
      7·
      10 months ago

      wait, you can have two different systems, on two SSDs, on the same computer? this will be useful once i get to build my pc. Thanks!

      i’m guessing having windows on a separate drive will mean that it won’t break GRUB?

      • Froyn@kbin.social
        5·
        10 months ago

        Muahaha, long ago had a system with a removable 5.25" HDD bay. Matching drives in enclosures, 1 linux, 1 windows. One “permanent” drive in the machine for user data.
        Super easy to swap between the OS when you’re physically changing the first drive on the IDE chain.

      • LeFantome@programming.dev
        5·
        10 months ago

        I think they may actually be suggesting that you let each OS be the primary OS and then just control which one you want via boot order in the BIOS.

        But yes, if Windows is able to install its boot loader on its own drive, it will not mess up the Linux boot loader on another drive. The Linux boot loader can detect Windows though and allow you to boot to it ( and Linux too of course ). That is why you make sure Linux boots first.

    • JPAKx4@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
      1·
      10 months ago

      My current setup is two drives, a 500gb with windows and a 1tb sad with my Linux install on it. I set the 1tb to my first boot drive, so hopefully no windows shenanigans. I’m going to see if I can set up automatic backups soon just in case