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Can I dual boot windows and Linux? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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Ideally, I would prefer to dual boot ( two different drives if necessary) Windows 11 and Linux Mint. From what I understand, the crap Microsoft is pulling now will prevent this. Is it because of bitlocker?

Either way, another option would be to dual boot windows 10 and Linux mint. I would keep Windows 10 offline, which is why I would prefer to dual boot Windows 11, since it and Linux would both be online.

So are either of these scenarios realistic?

I'd like to get answers before my post is deleted. So thank you in advance.

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[–] 11 points 1 year ago* (8 children)

If you have two drives, you can put linux on one and windows on the other fine

If you have one drive, you can split it into two at partition step.

I was pentabooting with 4 linux and 1 windows at some point. It works fine.

Just remember to save your microsoft account password somewhere just in case they lock your windows account for some reason.

Also a cool tip. Installing linux aftet windows works perfectly, but installing windows after linux often breaks grub.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    What arcane blasphemy were you up to that required you to pentaboot 😭

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    One for CTFs.
    One for programming.
    One for university.
    One for distrohopping, I tried all the way up to openbsd on that partition.
    Windows one did not show up on my grub so I simply forgot it exists over time.

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