Does Dual - Booting with Linux affect Windows 10 performance?

[HappyBoi]

Hi, I have Windows 10 and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (on KDE plasma) dual booting.
I have noticed that my Windows 10 has slown down significantly since I installed Ubuntu. It is so slow I can't even run more than 3 light apps at a time (Ex. Task Manager, File Manager, Control Panel) Microsoft Edge is incredibly slow as well. It used to work fine before. I'm having an Acer Aspire 3 laptop with the following specs -
Intel Pentium Silver N5000
4GB DDR4 RAM
1TB 5400RPM HDD (ik it is bad)
Windows 10 has 500GB (415GB used) assigned
Ubuntu has 245GB(63GB used) assigned
Rest is just other files, no programs.
 

[C2dan88]

No having multiple OS installed should not affect performance.

[Analog]

 

35 minutes ago, HappyBoi said:

Hi, I have Windows 10 and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (on KDE plasma) dual booting.
I have noticed that my Windows 10 has slown down significantly since I installed Ubuntu. It is so slow I can't even run more than 3 light apps at a time (Ex. Task Manager, File Manager, Control Panel) Microsoft Edge is incredibly slow as well. It used to work fine before. I'm having an Acer Aspire 3 laptop with the following specs -
Intel Pentium Silver N5000
4GB DDR4 RAM
1TB 5400RPM HDD (ik it is bad)
Windows 10 has 500GB (415GB used) assigned
Ubuntu has 245GB(63GB used) assigned
Rest is just other files, no programs.
 

 

There is no correlation between dual booting and slow downs in Windows per se. Your issue comes from using an old hard drive and very slow one at that. Back in the day the reason for partitioning hard drives was not just so that you can have two separate partitions in case Windows decides to crap itself. When splitting the drive in two, usually one bigger and one smaller partition, due to the way a hard drive operates, you were essentially making one partition that is faster (the smaller capacity one) and one that is slower (the bigger capacity one). Considering that 5400RPM drives are slow even in the best of days, your issue is most likely a result of this. Get an SSD and you will see that there will be no slowdowns. 

[HappyBoi]

7 minutes ago, Analog said:

 

 

There is no correlation between dual booting and slow downs in Windows per se. Your issue comes from using an old hard drive and very slow one at that. Back in the day the reason for partitioning hard drives was not just so that you can have two separate partitions in case Windows decides to crap itself. When splitting the drive in two, usually one bigger and one smaller partition, due to the way a hard drive operates, you were essentially making one partition that is faster (the smaller capacity one) and one that is slower (the bigger capacity one). Considering that 5400RPM drives are slow even in the best of days, your issue is most likely a result of this. Get an SSD and you will see that there will be no slowdowns. 

Thank you for the help! (and the very quick response)

Edited April 17, 2021 by HappyBoi

[el_murdoque]

Windows is unable to read, or even 'see' Linux file systems.

To the win OS, those drives/partitions are empty and unused.

 

The only thing is your boot speed. Since your system will display GRUB upon booting, the whole process will take a few extra seconds. 

It could be worth a try to run a defragmentation tool over the win partition. 

[wasab]

no. i install the os on two seperate drives. linux on my 3000/mbps read/write nvme ssd and windows on my old 256gb 500mbps read/write samsung ssd with 2 tb mechanical hdd share between them.

[HappyBoi]

20 hours ago, el_murdoque said:

Windows is unable to read, or even 'see' Linux file systems.

To the win OS, those drives/partitions are empty and unused.

 

The only thing is your boot speed. Since your system will display GRUB upon booting, the whole process will take a few extra seconds. 

It could be worth a try to run a defragmentation tool over the win partition. 

I will try thank you!