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Looking for a distro to dual boot with Win 11 (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by ImminentOrbit@lemmy.world to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml

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I currently have a win 11 machine and would like to dual boot with Linux. Looking at some of the different options, it seems many aren't recommended for dual booting. Are there any that are?

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[–] janNatan@lemmy.ml 21 points 5 months ago (6 children)

The best way to dual boot is to have separate hard drives for Windows and Linux. I'm not aware of some distros bring more windows friendly than others.

[–] illi@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Can you plese elaborate on why? I was thinking of dipping my toes in with Linux but my plans were to have it on the one drive.

[–] dean36963@mastodon.social 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

@illi @janNatan if you boot from BIOS (sometimes called legacy boot in setup menu) rather than UEFI, you can only select which disk to boot from, and the disk had to store boot details at the beginning of disk (MBR): both OSes could end up fighting over it. Linux operating systems are often careful to warn about this, but windows just assume they are the only operating system on a PC and overwrite it. (From memory, might need some checking 🤣)

I've not had issues since dual booting with UEFI.

[–] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I believe you are correct. I had my MBR overwritten a few times back in the Windows XP days, but haven't heard of it happening on modern UEFI setups outside of warnings like these.

I still segregate my system drives out of paranoia though.

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