Back when I dual booted, I had the most success keeping Windows on a separate drive completely. After making the Linux drive the primary boot device, GRUB would pick it up and I’d be off to the races. I now just keep a Windows VM – it’s been much easier to deal with.
I’m not following, do you need the bitlocker key when Linux is on a separate disk? is there something extra you need to keep in mind compared to just running windows?
I was going to dual boot, to kind of test the waters of using Linux as my primary. Then I heard there were is with Windows not wanting to play nice, so now I just run Linux.
And to be honest I don’t actually know what any of the issues are, I didn’t care enough to even search it. I just said Fuck Windows and moved on with my life.
Windows is literally designed to break multi-boot setups. Funny enough, multibooting on a Mac was never a big problem. Microsoft has more of a reason to cooperate here and they just can’t help themselves.
I currently dual boot like this. I’m still really new to Linux but I always wondered about this meme since I didn’t have to change my boot settings other than to boot the drive with Linux first. Now it makes sense but it had me wondering for a while there!
Back when I dual booted, I had the most success keeping Windows on a separate drive completely. After making the Linux drive the primary boot device, GRUB would pick it up and I’d be off to the races. I now just keep a Windows VM – it’s been much easier to deal with.
Boy howdy, you best keep that BitLocker key handy, though.
I’m not following, do you need the bitlocker key when Linux is on a separate disk? is there something extra you need to keep in mind compared to just running windows?
Just when recovering a windows partition encrypted with bitlocker.
Yeah. My TPM would trip every time Linux updated my hardware firmware… which was fairly common.
I was going to dual boot, to kind of test the waters of using Linux as my primary. Then I heard there were is with Windows not wanting to play nice, so now I just run Linux.
And to be honest I don’t actually know what any of the issues are, I didn’t care enough to even search it. I just said Fuck Windows and moved on with my life.
Windows is literally designed to break multi-boot setups. Funny enough, multibooting on a Mac was never a big problem. Microsoft has more of a reason to cooperate here and they just can’t help themselves.
I currently dual boot like this. I’m still really new to Linux but I always wondered about this meme since I didn’t have to change my boot settings other than to boot the drive with Linux first. Now it makes sense but it had me wondering for a while there!