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
so that impacts my consideration. Dont really play much multiplayer shooters so I dont have a problem with kernel anticheat games not working.
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.
Secure Boot and Fast startup if enabled on the windows side tend to cause more problems than baseline.
Expect Windows updates to nuke the bootloader of Linux fairly often, do NOT throw away your install live USB.
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.
