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> Because, at the bare minimum if nothing else goes wrong, that's what you need to dual boot Linux + Windows. Newbie-oriented distros like Ubuntu will do this
by Nullabillity 3y ago
> Because, at the bare minimum if nothing else goes wrong, that's what you need to dual boot Linux + Windows.
Newbie-oriented distros like Ubuntu will do this for you automatically.
> Windows and Linux updates will both periodically wipe each other's entries without a very careful manual config.
Not really, on a modern UEFI system. Windows may occasionally set itself as the default, but the Linux entry will still be installed as an option you can select in the UEFI firmware settings.
Linux shouldn't be "wiping out" anything. Typically you want GRUB to be your default bootloader, and chainload from there to Windows as desired. Again, any competent newbie-oriented distro will do this for you.
- brucethemoose2 3y ago> will still be installed as an option you can select in the UEFI firmware settings. Exactly. But to the first time user, their linux has disappeared, and they have to go look up what happened, then they have to figure out how to get into their motherboard's boot menu... and by now, you lost 99% of users. And I recently had my (systemd-boot) Windows entry fail on the linux side and had to go in and fix it. Not sure about GRUB these days. This is a microcosm of linux. Things just work if you go in and fix this little thing here and there, but most people don't do and won't do any kind of maintenance like this.
- j-bos 3y agoIf they don't know how to select the OS at startup, why are they dual booting?