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Question for Linux Folks

mambanegramambanegra Posts: 594
in The Commons

So, if I buy a new computer with windows professional, how sophisticated is the linux support that comes built in with whatever they call it. Also, it's been years since I bothered with dual booting (been a mac user for over a decade), and haven't touched grub since before the switch. Is it still pretty easy to configure a dual boot system for linux and windows these days. Also, how well does modern linux distributions support modern Windows file systems? 

 

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  • TaozTaoz Posts: 10,266
    edited October 2018

    Long ago since I've been playing with dualboot so I don't know how things are today, but if all else fails they have some great boot manager tools here:

    https://www.terabyteunlimited.com/

     

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  • AllenArtAllenArt Posts: 7,175
    mambanegra said:

    So, if I buy a new computer with windows professional, how sophisticated is the linux support that comes built in with whatever they call it. Also, it's been years since I bothered with dual booting (been a mac user for over a decade), and haven't touched grub since before the switch. Is it still pretty easy to configure a dual boot system for linux and windows these days. Also, how well does modern linux distributions support modern Windows file systems? 

     

    It's been my experience that dual booting works well as long as Windows is installed FIRST. Then Grub pretty much does it's thing automatically.

    Laurie

  • andya_b341b7c5f5andya_b341b7c5f5 Posts: 694

    I haven't dual booted with anything later than Win 7.  No reason to think it doesn't work at least as well as it used to, but I now prefer to run a 'live' Linux system from a USB stick.  Saves all the bother when Microsoft try yet another ruse to make it harder to use Linux on hardware you own but they would like to control.  Either that or run LInux within a VM (Virtualbox).

    Support for NTFS in LInux hasn't been a problem for quite a few years based on my own experience.

  • BradCarstenBradCarsten Posts: 856

    If you install Ubuntu, it will partition, set up ext4, and configure grub for you without a problem. It's quicker and easier than ever. 

  • AriphaosAriphaos Posts: 66

    Using Kubuntu for my desktop here. Setup Windows first, got a bit confused the first couple times booting. Only real issue is I need to either set the Windows clock to UTC or change the Linux clock. But that's always been the case.

  • Peter WadePeter Wade Posts: 1,667

    Ubuntu and it's offshoots like Kubuntu are very easy to install as long as they work. For some reason the Ubuntu installer refuses to run on my desktop although the OS runs in live mode booted from the DVD. I don't know how common this problem is, it might just be an oddity on my computer. It installed fine on my Laptop and setup dual boot without any problems. I have mounted the Windows NTFS partition in Ubuntu, I set it to read only for Ubuntu but you can make it read/write. Windows doesn't recognise the Ubuntu partition, but Windows never does. If you have enough disc space you can create another NTFS partition and have both Windows and Linux using it as a data partition.

  • AllenArtAllenArt Posts: 7,175
    andya_b341b7c5f5 said:

    I haven't dual booted with anything later than Win 7.  No reason to think it doesn't work at least as well as it used to, but I now prefer to run a 'live' Linux system from a USB stick.  Saves all the bother when Microsoft try yet another ruse to make it harder to use Linux on hardware you own but they would like to control.  Either that or run LInux within a VM (Virtualbox).

    Support for NTFS in LInux hasn't been a problem for quite a few years based on my own experience.

    Windows 8.1 was the last Windows version I dual booted with Linux. I wish I could help, but I just designated one of my slower running laptops (under Windows) to strictly Kubuntu (where it runs fine - nice and speedy).

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