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New to Linux? Ubuntu Isn’t Your Only Option
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What are good dual boot friendly options? I still game too much to ditch windows and dual booted Ubuntu but meh Ubuntu lol
Mint sets up the entire dual boot and partitioning during the install. You just choose how much space for Mint. Very easy and intuitive.
I consider Linux Mint Debian Edition to be the starter distro that Ubuntu was, >10 years ago.
Would you recommend something different for someone who doesn't need a "starter" but still wants to dual boot? I'm not super unfamiliar, I just haven't bothered for a long time
I'm using Pop OS, pretty good IMO
Flashing pop onto a USB now, let's give it a go! Any tips on gaming tools? I think I read about some newer compatibility thing but can't remember what it was called lol.
I'm using it mainly for development, keeping all the gaming to windows
Linux Mint is a popular alternative.
But all options can be dual booted as far as I know!
Some don't play nice with dual booting. I'm honestly not familiar with the "why" but a couple of distros I looked at (one was one of the gaming forward ones, forget which) are outright like "don't dual boot this and if you do don't come crying to us.
I'm guessing they struggle seeing other file system types but I have no idea.
Oh that is news to me. I always assumed a partition was all it needed.
I honestly don't know what the issue is, but if the distro page is like "don't fuckin do it" I just believe them 😂
It could just be that windows is obnoxious and likes to do its best to break shit, and they don't want to deal with helping people figure out how to repair it in limited dev time.
I mean anything but the atomic distros will dual boot just fine. GRUB is GRUB. I have the most experience with Debian-based distros, but they all dual-boot just fine.