• ninjaturtle
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    8 days ago

    If you can install another driver onto the computer, you can put Linux on that and kept the windows OS still, in case you need it. This is dual booting. You chose which OS you want when booting up.

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      8 days ago

      Is this something that’s relatively fool proof to do? I’m very good at imagining disasters. That’s the big mental block I got when I thought about dual booting before.

      • Communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz
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        7 days ago

        If you install ventoy on a usb and put windows and bazzite on it, you can easily switch between things.

        i have 15 years of experience and am willing to infinitely troubleshoot on matrix

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            7 days ago

            note that you should absolutely make a backup of all your important files before you muck about with installing different operating systems, it will wipe your drive, so, yeah.

            if you do that and have both on a ventoy usb it is pretty much impossible to fuck something up