dual boot

So... long story short. I'm an aspiring programmer, and I have ADD - the distractions of windows [all the programs, discords, websites, icons, games and such] are really detrimental to my learning process, so I have decided to install a Linux distro for the sole purpose of programming on there...

Hi guys! I'm asking here out of desperation, I've been trying to install (Dual boot) Linux for a while now but nothing worked so far. So I downloaded Kali Linux from the official website and flashed it with Etcher as recommended on the website (aslo tried Rufus but none worked). Then I booted...

Hello, I have a 500GB SSD, and a separate hard drive I added to my pc that's also 500GB. This hard drive is completely blank and I formatted it for my Windows 10 computer. I was wondering if I can dual boot windows 10 and Zorin OS lite or maybe linux mint(let me know what you all recommend for a...

Hello, Sorry for the vague title but I'm not sure how to describe what terminal I'm looking at. It's named GNU Grub version 2.04. See image. Im a noob at bare metal, I usually boot from live usbs but this is my first bare metal installation. Its my intention to install on partition(4) of...

I have been thinking of dual booting my Linux machine with windows. The problem is I cannot seem to find any guide in which dual boot is done with Linux being the initial software. I was wondering, is it even possible? If so, could you help me? If not, do I have any other options? I also tried...

Hello, I'm new to this forum. Today I installed Kubuntu next to Windows 10, but when the computer starts, the GRUB screen does not open and only enters Kubuntu. How can I solve the problem?

I'm a complete novice at Linux, I recently dual booted my pc (MSI bravo 15) with windows 10 and ubuntu 20.04 (windows was pre-installed). (I'm using UEFI secure boot) I'm unable to set Ubuntu as the os to boot by default. In grub, ubuntu is above windows boot manager, and it should boot into...

Hey, so since I installed Debian on a separate ssd, where I made separate EFI, swap, and ext4 partitions, I now have most of the times I try to boot windows 10 a bluescreen that says 'Page fault in nonpaged area'. I've already tried some fixes (like running dskchk) I found on the internet but...

Hi, I wanted to try out Linux and installed Linux Mint on a USB. During booting process I select USB from the menu and Mint just works. As a developer I can not express the feeling of joy I had when it loaded the desktop. No less than magic :) I have been using it for over a month now and the...

I have linux mint 20.1 cinnamon edition. I want to dual boot with parrotsec OS, however I have no idea how, so I am seeking help. What should I do? Thanks. I have a usb stick burned with the iso file already.

Hi, I successfully installed Pop OS on my windows Huawei matebook x computer. I set up the grub launcher to load on every boot, to select either Pop OS or windows 10. However, suddenly the grub launcher failed on boot and now it only shows a grub console screen. If I quickly click f12 on boot...

I use Windows 10 on my default ssd drive. I first installed Ubuntu to my secondary hard disk in summer 2019 and there were no problems. Then I installed it again several months later (because the partitions ubuntu ran on were formatted) and the computer started to frequently restart. I checked...

I use an Acer Aspire A315-51 laptop and I tried to install several distroutions (Ubuntu, Arch, Manjaro, ...) but every time when everything is installed, after I press the bios key F2 a blackscreen with a white line appears. I can still select the operating system via the F12 boot menu, but I...

Recently, I dual-booted W10 and LM 19.3 Cinnamon (both 64-bit). After dual-booting, ethernet works only on LM, while on W10 it says that it's not connected. I saw a few topics with a similar problem but all of them had no connection on LM, not W10. Feel free to ask for more info and thank you in...

I am using a dual boot system with Ubuntu and Windows. However, I would like to switch from Ubuntu to PopOS, to try it out, while still maintaining Windows. It's my first time switching distros. So I was wondering was there any changes that I have to make to the bootloader before, during or...

I succesfully have installed Ubuntu 20.04 alongside Windows 10 dual boot. However, when I start up my desktop Windows10 shows up. But, when I during startup hit the F12 function key, I get the option of choosing Windows boot manager (first on top) or Ubuntu (second). When I choose Ubuntu, the...

Hi, Basically I have one hardware with static IP. I has beem used for hosting website on ubuntu server. Other family members do not familiar with Linux server. So when they want to use machine I have to reboot the machine and run windows at that time my hosted website was not working because it...

Hello, i am new on the forum (but know some informatic already) and i have a the problem that i cant boot on to my debian 10 "buster" 10.6, after i install it, i have a dual boot w10 and the debian on separated drives, and i couldn't get it to work the w10 and the debian on the grub, them i try...

I have 128GB M.2 SSD and on the remaining HDD (which is 1 TB with 3 partitions - 1st with 500GB, second with 380GB and the third with 100GB) I want to install PopOS on the second partition. This HDD contained Windows installation so I formatted that partition. (note that I formatted only the C...

I installed Arch Linux alongside Windows and I can boot both operating systems after pressing F12. But when I want to go into the BIOS, the screen goes black and there is a small white line in the upper left corner. Then I reinstalled the BIOS, but the I can no longer boot Arch Linux. But if I...