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Should I dual boot Linux?

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No it should not be. Get use to using command lines. 

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not unless you rm it

if you want to be 100% sure just unhook it during install of linux and then once you're booted either set it to read only in linux or just unmount it but thats over kill 

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9 minutes ago, GDRRiley said:

No it should not be. Get use to using command lines. 

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That's what I did when I still had a Mint install for testing purposes: Win on the SSD, Linux on the mechanical hard drive. As long as you install grub and don't fiddle with the partitions they're installed on (like moving the install to other partitions) you're completely fine. You can even choose where to install the bootloader.

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you can dual boot windows and an linux distro on the ssd an save important data and large files on the HDD

 

the bootloader you will see is from the last installed OS.

do you want the windows bootloader? first install an linux distro, after that you can install windows.

do you want the bootloader provided by your distro (mostly grub)? first install windows after that an linux distro

 

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On ‎31‎/‎05‎/‎2016 at 6:12 AM, Lehti said:

That's what I did when I still had a Mint install for testing purposes: Win on the SSD, Linux on the mechanical hard drive. As long as you install grub and don't fiddle with the partitions they're installed on (like moving the install to other partitions) you're completely fine. You can even choose where to install the bootloader.

if you were just testing why didn't you use a virtual machine?

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5 hours ago, vorticalbox said:

if you were just testing why didn't you use a virtual machine?

Because I didn't want to install VirtualBox. Team Laziness here. :P

No, seriously, I had a problem with network configuration in Virtualbox and eventually I gave up and just did a dual boot system. When I upgraded my rig I had no issues with Virtualbox networking whatsoever.

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