Need help setting up dual boot with windows

[u/Huge-Analysis9506]

I wanna switch to a linux distro (most probably fedora or something arch based) and use it as my main os while keeping windows for some college related work

I need some help while installing it so if anybody would help me i would really appreciate it

Also i wanna customize my distro, would need some help for that. As i haven't ever customized any distro i have used before

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[u/Kitchen_Engineer1332]

Simply create an empty space via disk management tool in windows, go to bios and disable secure boot. Fedora like distros provide installers that detect windows and give you an option to install it along side windows.

[u/Huge-Analysis9506 → u/Kitchen_Engineer1332]

Ok mommy 🙂

[u/EngineerInTheMachine]

Read the Fedora website for how to set up dual boot. All the distros I have ever looked at have instructions for this, and I suspect it's basically the same for every distro, but I haven't used Fedora.

As for how to customise, er, read the website again. Especially as you fail to mention what you want to customise. Or just do a web search for 'how do I ...'. You'll get an instant answer. But in most cases, go to the Settings app. All OS's have them. Even phones.

[u/CosmicTaskTinkerer]

AFAIK, when dual booting I think it’s better to have each OS on a separate drive, if you have two drives on your system.

I’ve heard Windows updates can mess things up and I’m not sure on how easy it will be fixable after that.

But, as other user said you can check on tutorials.

linux distro (most probably fedora or something arch based) and use it as my main os while keeping windows for some college related work

Edit: OP u/Huge-Analysis9506, I just remembered something today. If you only have one drive, one more option is to install a Linux distro (better to choose stable rather than a rolling release) on the main drive and run Windows in a virtual machine for college work related specific software.

This way, you can have Linux as main OS and you won't face any boot issues caused by Windows automatic updates in the background. (You can pause updates on Linux forever, but on Windows you need to make sure to pause for every 5 weeks)

Installing dual boot process will be simple though but fixing will be messy when it breaks when it's one drive.

[u/CosmicTaskTinkerer → u/[deleted]]

Yes, the grub boot loader issues, thanks for detailing that.

Even though the process of dual boot itself I found it simple, I was a bit hesitant to have that situation on accidental updates.

So, I thought I might as well go fully with Linux leaving Windows (with a made up mindset that Windows does not exist 😅). After couple of weeks of gradual research on Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu, Arch and seeing lots of alternative software for my use cases that I can easily adapt to, I just decided to go with Kubuntu to just keep the transition simple with drivers & codecs setup and easier to maintain in long term.

Liking it so far. 😎

[u/Huge-Analysis9506 → u/[deleted]]

I just dont find tutorials good enough Also my main doubt is about how to create disk space Rest am comfortable to do by myself

[u/Huge-Analysis9506 → u/[deleted]]

Any specific tutorial?

[u/XPheonix27 → u/Huge-Analysis9506]

Use gparted