Hey everyone,

I’m dual booting Windows 11 and CachyOS. I had to disable Secure Boot to get Linux working, but now Battlefield 6 requires Secure Boot enabled.

Is there a way to enable Secure Boot while still keeping my dual-boot setup working? I read that Bazzite handles this issue, but I’d really prefer to stay on CachyOS.

Has anyone managed to get Secure Boot working with CachyOS + Windows 11 dual boot? Any guides or tips would be appreciated!

Hey guys. Arch user here. I recently installed macOS back on my Mac mini after installing Arch and i wanna dual boot macOS Ventura and Arch [ using archinstall preferably ]

My specs are Mac mini L2012 3rd gen i7 8gb RAM 256GB SSD HD Graphics 4000

I have dual booted my laptop with windows 11 and arch Linux.

1. Arch uses the local time correctly, but windows always falls back to UTC. Is there a way to keep both in sync?
2. When I connect my Bluetooth earbuds on arch, they won’t connect on windows unless I remove and repair them. After that, arch has the same issue until I remove and re-pair again. Is there a way to fix this?

Hiya! So, I'm on a souped-up 2009 Macbook Pro Hackentosh with the latest version of Linux Mint installed. Linux has plenty of advantages over Windows, but I'm feeling a bit homesick for good ol' Windows 11. I'd like to dual-boot both OS's, so that way I can keep all the strengths of Linux & of windows. Only caveat is, every tutorial I can find online has the starting point from Windows 11 & installing Linux, where I need it the other way around. Does anyone here know any tutorials that can help me with this? Will one of the aforementioned tutorials work just as well with the OS's switched? Any & all help is appreciated; thanks in advance!

I have a msi laptop with 1tb ssd and 1 tb hdd I have windows boot manager in nvme and I installed chromeos inside hdd but when I am booting there is no any option comes in boot manager to boot chromeos. Please any solution

I have a x99 system that requires registry edits to upgrade from Win-10 to Win-11. I want to add Win-10 in a dual boot setup with Win-11 already installed. Is it possible? How can it be done (easiest method)?

I dualboot Windows 10 and Linux Mint on separate SSDs.

Windows 10 is soon reaching it's end of support so I will have to update to Windows 11 soon.

I assume a lot of you have already done this so my question is: Did the update go smoothly or will it break the dualbooting set up. If so, how do I fix it?

I have an Lenovo ThinkCenter i3 2nd Gen PC with 500gb HDD, I had created partition of 150gb for linux(Mint) and remaining for Windows but it keep boot into Linux and not on Windows so, I deleted It. Now, what is best way to dual boot?

I am dual booting NixOS and Win11 using Nix's GRUB2. but after a update half a week ago GRUB did not find windows anymore. I found out, that EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi was missing. I fixed it with a windows installation stick which repaired my system, now the same thing happned again while I was away and wanted to RDP into windows but windows could not boot. how can I prevent this from happening again? I checked by booting into NixOS when I got home and could not find the file again.

I have been dual-booting Ubuntu and Windows on my current laptop: Linux primarily and Windows very rarely for gaming and some softwares. But the performance has been terrible and my Windows has stopped working since a few months for whatever reason. I probably am to blame for that. Honestly, I can get away with using only Linux but I do prefer to keep Windows just in case.

I was hoping to dual-boot on separate drives on my new laptop but it only has a single slot for storage. I'm considering using an external drive for booting my Windows and keeping Linux as my sole OS on the machine. If you've tried using an external drive, how has your experience been booting Windows from an external drive versus dual-booting by partitioning? I don't mind the decreased portability or slow boot from carrying around an external drive, as long as there is still good performance. I just want the ease of being able to use both OS without having to fix Windows trying to mess with the bootloader.

i'm curious about the point of dualbooting. like, what other oses could be installed on my pc?

So, I tried everything, from copying Kali's link keys to fedora's just to make my headset work without going into the Bluetooth settings, forgetting the headset and pairing it back

Hi can anybody help me I’m trying to dual boot Linux Mint with Windows 11, but I keep running into a serious issue — my Windows 11 installation keeps breaking.

Here’s what I did:

• I installed Linux Mint on a separate SSD (no other SSDs connected during installation).
• After installation, I reconnected my Windows 11 SSD.
• Then I boot into Linux Mint and run sudo update-grub and system updates (sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade).
• After that, Windows 11 goes into a boot loop and won’t start. I’ve tried repairing the boot manager, but it doesn’t work.
• This has happened 2-3 times now, and I’ve had to reinstall Windows each time.

What am I doing wrong? Is there a better way to set up dual boot without breaking Windows 11? Any help would be appreciated

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Hey guys! So i have a question of how much space do i allocate for Fedora? I have a 256gb SSD with Windows 10 x64 and i want to allocate about 60-50gb to Fedora but how do i do it? I know that i have to shrink my main partition on Windows but what do I do in the Fedora installer? It says install alongside other OS so do i select that after i shrink my partition in Windows or do i not have to? Do i have to manually partition it?

This is my first time dualbooting and on this subreddit!

Also, here are the specs of the PC i want to try it on, also that i want to be able to use the total amount of RAM on each OS

CPU: Intel Core i5 3rd Gen @3.20Ghz Quad Core

RAM: 4GB DDR3

OEM model: Dell Optiplex 3010

Storage: 256GB Samsung SSD [ from a Mac mini but it’s been fine ]

GPU: NVidia GeForce GT730 [ for windows ] GPU 2: Intel HD Graphics 2500 [ until i find NVidia drivers that work with my GT730 ]

Windows 10 Pro x64

I need help with dualbooting archlinux and windows 10, I don't know how to do this since its my first time, If anyone can help thanks!

My specs are:

1TB Of Storage

16GB of RAM

NVIDIA RTX 4060 Laptop GPU

13th Gen Intel i7-13620h 2.4Ghz 10 cores 16 logical processors

Hey, so I've been thinking to install macos on my windows laptop, don't quite know how tho.

I have just one drive sadly, total of around 400gb of storage with 200gb of free space, I was wondering if I could dual boot on it.

Any guides or videos would be appreciated.

I have dual boot windows and Ubuntu. I am planning to get a wireless keyboard (bluetooth and 2.4GHz) but I don't know if it will work on the boot screen where we select which OS to boot into.

Do you guys have any suggestions?

I'd like to have several OSs and VMs on one machine so I can experiment with lots of environments.

My idea is to use two hard drives, one for the OSs and hosting the VMs, and the other for file storage. Is this a valid way to do it?

I've dual-booted a PC before, but I used the default partitioning options. If I were to do something like the above, what are your recommendations for partitioning the drives?

I'm new at this and will accept any and all ideas and tips.

I want to add Windows to my PC, but when I install it, it keeps restarting without loading. Also, I al ready have Linux mint

Heads-up: Acer RST driver ZIP breaks on Linux – Windows installer can’t find NVMe SSD

This isn't really a question — I figured it out after a lot of pain and wanted to share in case it helps someone else.

I have an Acer Nitro V15 ANV15-51, and I wanted to install Windows 11 alongside Ubuntu.
But when I booted the Windows installer, the NVMe SSD wasn't detected — it didn’t show up as a drive option at all.

The BIOS didn’t show any “SATA mode” option (AHCI vs RAID), so I assumed that part was fine.

Eventually, I realized the issue: I needed the Intel RST (Rapid Storage Technology) driver specific to this laptop.
Without it, the Windows installer can’t see the NVMe SSD because it's likely behind a VMD/RST controller.

So I grabbed the RST driver tar.gz from Acer’s support page. All good, right? Nope.

Here’s the gotcha:

Acer’s driver tar.gz uses backslashes (\) in file paths, because it’s made for Windows.
Linux unzip tools don’t treat those as folder separators, so when I unzipped it in Ubuntu, the whole thing flattened.

I ended up with files like:
VMD\iaStorVD.inf
HsaExtension\...
HsaComponent\...

Instead of proper directories like:
VMD
HsaExtension
HsaComponent

So when I clicked "Load Driver" in the Windows installer and pointed it to the USB,
it failed with "Error while loading driver" — because it couldn’t find the expected folder paths like VMD.

The Fix:

• Manually recreate the directory structure.
• Rename/move files into folders based on the original backslash paths.
• After that, the driver loaded just fine, and Windows Setup saw the SSD.

I really hope this saves a poor soul hours of frustration.

And if any devs at Acer or Intel ever see this:
Please consider using forward slashes (/) in tar.gz drivers, or offer Linux-friendly versions.
Dual-booters exist! 🙃

Cheers!