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Dual Booting Done Wrong, or How Microsoft Has Made It Harder to Boot Into GNU/Linux
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Tom's Hardware ☛ Beelink SER10 Max Mini PC review: Gorgon Point comes ready to dual-boot backdoored Windows and Ubuntu
Beelink’s SER10 Max Mini PC comes ready to dual-boot backdoored Windows 11 and Ubuntu with OpenClaw pre-installed.
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Dual booting between Ubuntu and Windows 11 is one of this unit’s flagship features, isn’t quite as straightforward as you might be led to believe. Instead of being met with an option between the two upon booting the unit to switch between OS’s, you must instead switch the boot drives within the BIOS to get to your preferred OS. This isn’t a dealbreaker, but there are some more caveats to the feature that potential buyers should know about.
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HowTo Geek ☛ 7 things nobody tells you about dual booting Linux and Windows
Are you considering dual booting Linux and Windows? Do you want to play it safe and avoid potential pitfalls before diving in? After a decade of breaking and fixing my multi-boot setups, I've compiled seven crucial truths that nobody tells you about dual booting.
While dual booting isn’t the most technically challenging thing, it can present some problems down the line if you don’t know what you’re doing. Thankfully, you have me, and I’ve been using a multi-boot system for a decade now.
I’ve broken my setup trying to make changes, and I’ve had my setup break down on me when I was just trying to watch YouTube. So, speaking from experience, here are seven things I wish I had known before I created a dual boot system—that nobody warned me about!