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.

  • TheModerateTankie [any]@hexbear.net
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    3 days ago

    Windows often doesn’t play nice with the linux partition, and you might have to figure out how to fix the boot partition every once in a while or be locked out of linux.

    It’s best to install win and linux on a different drives and use the boot options from the bios to switch which drive you boot into.