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It sucked back then, it sucks today (perhaps even more).
I am really curious about the reasoning behind this, as in my opinion Linux as a desktop OS has improved tremendously over the years.
I have a Linux OS on my gaming laptop, and it is by far the best OS I've ever had. Not even Windows 7 (which may very well have been the only Windows OS I kind of liked) comes close.
how is dual booting these days?
It should work fine if you install Windows first, then your Linux distro - preferably on another internal drive - and its bootloader.
Dual booting with two Linux distros can be a massive pain, as the swap partitions are likely to mess things up and Calamares enjoys nuking your existing bootloader. I have two Linux distros on my main laptop, and I had to fix /etc/fstab on my main distro after installing Linux Mint because installing it prevented my main distro from booting due to a UUID being modified or something.
I have another laptop with Windows 11, and the only reason I keep Windows on it is for the compatibility issues (I didn't run into all that many though, as WINE, Lutris, Bottles and Proton can run most Windows programs/games I'm interested in). Kind of hard to update my DualSense firmware on Linux without a Windows virtual machine, for example.
I may post more detailed thoughts later on if I find the time for it.
EDIT :
There's a way to make custom windows image, allowing you to exclude junk you don't want, but I can't be bothered these days honestly.
Good heavens. You mean with Windows PE, right? I still have nightmares about it.
I am really curious about the reasoning behind this, as in my opinion Linux as a desktop OS has improved tremendously over the years.
I have a Linux OS on my gaming laptop, and it is by far the best OS I've ever had. Not even Windows 7 (which may very well have been the only Windows OS I kind of liked) comes close.
how is dual booting these days?
It should work fine if you install Windows first, then your Linux distro - preferably on another internal drive - and its bootloader.
Dual booting with two Linux distros can be a massive pain, as the swap partitions are likely to mess things up and Calamares enjoys nuking your existing bootloader. I have two Linux distros on my main laptop, and I had to fix /etc/fstab on my main distro after installing Linux Mint because installing it prevented my main distro from booting due to a UUID being modified or something.
I have another laptop with Windows 11, and the only reason I keep Windows on it is for the compatibility issues (I didn't run into all that many though, as WINE, Lutris, Bottles and Proton can run most Windows programs/games I'm interested in). Kind of hard to update my DualSense firmware on Linux without a Windows virtual machine, for example.
I may post more detailed thoughts later on if I find the time for it.
EDIT :
There's a way to make custom windows image, allowing you to exclude junk you don't want, but I can't be bothered these days honestly.
Good heavens. You mean with Windows PE, right? I still have nightmares about it.
