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567455, Dual Booting Win11 and a Linux Distro??
Posted by Scotterpops, Sun Oct-19-25 08:40 PM
Hiya kiddies,
Does anyone here dual boot Windows 11 and Linux? If so, what kind of boot manager do you use? It's been so long since I set up a multi-boot Windows/Linux system that I've forgotten everything I had to learn to set up a boot manager, and besides I'm sure everything has changed with newer Windows builds.
As always, thanks for the help.
;~* ... Scotterpops
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567456, RE: Dual Booting Win11 and a Linux Distro??
Posted by arr2dee2, Mon Dec-01-25 04:07 AM
It's been a while since I've checked in. Suspect you have your answer after this long. Boot manager/grub is pretty much installed with many/most distros. Just need to be sure to select the correct installation options during installation (to install next to Windows, and not replace it), but it will be set up automatically in general. I generally create or resize a partition while in Windows before installing, and just have it installed in the new blank partition. You can do it from Linux, I just usually do it that way.
I've used many in the past 20 years. Most recently, Kubuntu/Ubuntu/Opensuse/Fedora/Mint. Fedora is my current daily.
Mint is "easy" and stable. Cinnamon edition is what I suggest. Conservative updates, good forums.
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