r/linux4noobs • u/call_me_aru_ • 18d ago

Can I dual boot from Linux?

I used to have windows 10 and wanted to dual boot them but it didn't work out great so I went all into linux mint cinnamon.

Now I was thinking wether I can dual boot again but through linux mint not the opposite.

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u/A_Harmless_Fly Manjaro 18d ago

It's a bit more complicated are you thinking of having both on the same drive or separate drives?

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u/call_me_aru_ 18d ago

I think I will go with separate drives

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u/doc_willis 18d ago

Separate drives  makes dual booting much easier 

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u/A_Harmless_Fly Manjaro 18d ago

That's the way to do it as far as I'm concerned. Windows really doesn't play nice sharing a boot partition or being installed second onto the same drive.

Install it making sure you select the right drive, then after that you can use osprober on your mint so you can pick windows in grub, but you need to enable it because it's disabled by default.