Will it be bad to install linux on my laptop?

[Monkeyofdoom44]

I'm gonna buy this laptop: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07TF6MKZ2/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=A3JS2199GQLB8L&psc=1

 

I'll be buying this laptop in a couple days and I'm wanting to switch to linux from windows, will there be any problems with anything hardware wise if I install linux on it? I plan on using the 256 ssd for windows so I can play a couple games that just don't work on linux and I'll use the 1tb as the main boot drive with linux. I plan on using POP! OS. This'll be my first foray into linux and just to make sure I like it I'll probably run it off a usb for the first few days. Also, I've never had two OS's on one system, how do you do that? Thank you in advance. Sorry...

Edited August 30, 2019 by Monkeyofdoom44

[trag1c]

Sometimes the bios requires a little bit of problem solving but generally speaking you can install linux on anything without issues. You want to use the windows boot manager, so windows has to be installed first and then linux. You will need to create a partition on a drive for the linux os to exist on and then its a simple matter of booting from the usb to install linux. Then on next boot simply a case of selecting either windows or linux to boot into.

[kompetenzbolzen]

Hardware seems fine.

Be aware that switchable laptop graphics might need some googling, but i heard that POP is pretty good with drivers.

Setting up a dual boot is pretty easy for most distributions, they provide an option in the setup. Your PC will then boot the Linux bootmanager (GRUB) which will have windows as a boot option.

[Turtle Rig]

2 minutes ago, trag1c said:

Sometimes the bios requires a little bit of problem solving but generally speaking you can install linux on anything without issues. You want to use the windows boot manager, so windows has to be installed first and then linux. You will need to create a partition on a drive for the linux os to exist on and then its a simple matter of booting from the usb to install linux. Then on next boot simply a case of selecting either windows or linux to boot into.

Also if you don't want to partition your C ..... and give it all to WIndows that is fine as well.  You just install it on D drive assuming you have nothing in it sorta  fresh linux install on D , so you don't have to fiddle with C and keep windows and all space to it.  good luck

[Tokyo_]

best thing to do is just install manjaro and enable non-free drivers at the installation grub that will make sure to give the best drivers for your PC even if it isn't open source and if you use the deepin desktop environment it'll make you forget about windows and for now it can even handle some gaming  

[Donut417]

On 8/29/2019 at 9:09 PM, Monkeyofdoom44 said:

ny problems with anything hardware wise if I install linux on it?

With Pop OS, probably not. I have Pop OS on my main desktop. The B450 Motherboard I have, has built in WiFi/Bluetooth and it worked perfect out of the box, well I haven't tested the WiFi, but the Bluetooth adapter had no issues connecting to my H4.40's. 

 

On 8/29/2019 at 9:09 PM, Monkeyofdoom44 said:

. Also, I've never had two OS's on one system, how do you do that? Thank you in advance. Sorry...

This you might have to do some searching online on. In the past you installed Windows first, then installed Linux and the Grub boot loader would take control. Im not sure how things changed with Windows 10. As I dont have Windows and will NEVER have Windows installed on this machine, ever, under any circumstance. 

[tux_peng]

PopOS probably won't even require you to turn off secure boot. If you have 2 drivers, dual booting is easier.  install grub to the Linux drive, not the windows ssd. Back in Windows, install easyBCD, and add the Linux drive as GRUB

 

Then both drives will have boot menus

 

I have the AMD version

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