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June 9th, 2014 at 1:16 AM
I currently have my PC dual booted with an outdated version of Ubuntu, although I pretty much never fire up Ubuntu these days. I plan on dual booting my next PC with Windows 8.1 and Xubuntu, or Ubuntu with XFCE as my primary desktop environment.
Anyone else here have experience dual booting their computers? If you're using linux, what distributions ado you use?
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June 3rd, 2017 at 5:12 AM
I've been running dual boot for a while now, 2 os's, one each installed on an SSD with a 3rd 2TB Sata HDD for storage shared between them... however I haven't actually booted into windows since January.
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June 10th, 2017 at 11:15 PM
I used to have a shared drive too. You can set up windows to be able to access linux partitions, but it was not worth the effort. Plus you always had to go through too many folders in Windows to find your stuff.
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June 11th, 2017 at 10:24 AM
I just found it easier to have separate hdd's, absolute worse case scenario, I can forgo grub altogether install each os, one at a time, then switch from the bios boot
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November 15th, 2020 at 10:16 PM
(June 11th, 2017 at 10:24 AM)SpookyZalost Wrote: I just found it easier to have separate hdd's, absolute worse case scenario, I can forgo grub altogether install each os, one at a time, then switch from the bios boot
This is how I am now. I have two SSDs, one Windows, one Linux. I don't have to worry about a Windows update messing up grub or anything like that.
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November 16th, 2020 at 5:37 AM
@ Thomas plus with the two separated if something goes wrong it doesn't bring down the whole computer.
that combined with using a third drive as storage and you really don't lose anything that can't be restored from a backup (usually config stuff).
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