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.

  • bdonvr@thelemmy.club
    34·
    11 months ago

    I always found having each OS have a separate physical drive is much better, but partitioning is fine if you must.

      • bdonvr@thelemmy.club
        71·
        11 months ago

        It’s a luxury indeed. Hopefully maybe a little less now that decent storage has come down in price a lot

        • 0x4E4F@infosec.pubEnglish
          5·
          11 months ago

          Have to agree on that. SSD and RAM prices have gone down significantly.

        • TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml
          11·
          11 months ago

          Not a luxury. A 128 GB SSD can be bought for about $25 (last year) or even cheaper now, and you buy once for many years, as home users write a lot less on SSDs.

    • BCsven@lemmy.ca
      7·
      11 months ago

      Partitioning is great with a boot partition for each OS,and linux chainloading to windows. Then I have aseparate NTFS drive as secondary drive in Windows and Linux, in case I need to work on data in either OS