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Have you been dual-booting? What's your experience been like, generally? I built my current desktop something like 5+ years ago, and have been thinking about bu

Have you been dual-booting? What's your experience been like, generally? I built my current desktop something like 5+ years ago, and have been thinking about building something new, with Windows kept as a second fiddle for when the few games I still play don't cooperate on WINE or Proton.

zdragnar 5y ago
I've always kept a windows partition around, just in case things go sideways and for gaming. Proton is great, but not good enough for many games. Dual booting can have odd effects on Windows. The strangest I have encountered is that windows shuts down when it thinks it is rebooting, and reboots when I tell it to shut down. Other than that, no issues, though I always make sure when installing linux that I have Windows totally up to date (some mostly for firmware updates). Manjaro and Pop_OS! are a breeze to install- resizing the windows partition is as easy as dragging a slider. It has been awhile since I have used something else, but I imagine any distro with a modern kernel and gui installer will be easy enough. In fact, I recently picked up an lg gram (16")- some occasional graphical glitching I am blaming on wayland, but other than that, the hardware actually works better on linux than windows.
- gigaflop 5y ago
  Thanks for the tips! As for Windows acting strange, I've heard that it can have something to do with 'fast boot' settings on the motherboard BIOS. Not sure if you've checked that already. Have you ever seen Windows muck up the bootloader? I remember grumblings from some time ago, where it would cause grub to malfunction by making certain assumptions about the disk it was on.
  - zdragnar 5y ago
    I've not experienced grub issues personally in recent memory, to be honest- at least, none caused by windows. I turned off fast boot when I set up the problematic machine, but on my newest machine (LG gram) I didn't bother and it is working fine.
- hulitu 5y ago
  > Dual booting can have odd effects on Windows. The strangest I have encountered is that windows shuts down when it thinks it is rebooting, and reboots when I tell it to shut down. That is because it is not shutting down. Go in (power) settings and change the settings to always do a shutdown when you shutdown ( default is to hibernate) and disable fast reboots.
  - zdragnar 5y ago
    I think maybe you misunderstood what I was getting at. When windows reboots during an update process, it says "rebooting" on the screen but actually powers off. Same goes for clicking "reboot" in the start menu. When clicking "shut down", the screen displays the "shutting down" message, but it actually reboots the computer back to the OS selection screen. Neither scenario goes into hibernate.

zdragnar 5y ago

I've always kept a windows partition around, just in case things go sideways and for gaming. Proton is great, but not good enough for many games. Dual booting can have odd effects on Windows. The strangest I have encountered is that windows shuts down when it thinks it is rebooting, and reboots when I tell it to shut down. Other than that, no issues, though I always make sure when installing linux that I have Windows totally up to date (some mostly for firmware updates). Manjaro and Pop_OS! are a breeze to install- resizing the windows partition is as easy as dragging a slider. It has been awhile since I have used something else, but I imagine any distro with a modern kernel and gui installer will be easy enough. In fact, I recently picked up an lg gram (16")- some occasional graphical glitching I am blaming on wayland, but other than that, the hardware actually works better on linux than windows.

gigaflop 5y ago
Thanks for the tips! As for Windows acting strange, I've heard that it can have something to do with 'fast boot' settings on the motherboard BIOS. Not sure if you've checked that already. Have you ever seen Windows muck up the bootloader? I remember grumblings from some time ago, where it would cause grub to malfunction by making certain assumptions about the disk it was on.
- zdragnar 5y ago
  I've not experienced grub issues personally in recent memory, to be honest- at least, none caused by windows. I turned off fast boot when I set up the problematic machine, but on my newest machine (LG gram) I didn't bother and it is working fine.
hulitu 5y ago
> Dual booting can have odd effects on Windows. The strangest I have encountered is that windows shuts down when it thinks it is rebooting, and reboots when I tell it to shut down. That is because it is not shutting down. Go in (power) settings and change the settings to always do a shutdown when you shutdown ( default is to hibernate) and disable fast reboots.
- zdragnar 5y ago
  I think maybe you misunderstood what I was getting at. When windows reboots during an update process, it says "rebooting" on the screen but actually powers off. Same goes for clicking "reboot" in the start menu. When clicking "shut down", the screen displays the "shutting down" message, but it actually reboots the computer back to the OS selection screen. Neither scenario goes into hibernate.