cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/6694770

I plan to do a pc upgrade very soon. Alongside that I plan to start with Mint. Is there any real or big downsides to dual booting ? Aside from the harddrive space lost ?

If I like or really like my time with Mint I would probably switch permanently but I felt like I wanted to test it for a couple of months before making a complete switch.

Im a big freeze-gamer so that impacts my consideration. Dont really play much multiplayer shooters so I dont have a problem with kernel anticheat games not working.

  • mayo_cider [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    12 days ago

    Aside from the mentioned hard drive space, not really. If you don’t change the default boot order, you’ll have to select Linux manually on every boot, but that’s easy to fix in BIOS. It’s also helpful for accessing your old files if you don’t want to immediately move everything over to Linux.