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I was talking to my dad yesterday and he talked about how he dual booted windows and Linux in his college days. I immediately left to download Ubuntu, I feel so dumb for forgetting it's an option. I literally only use windows so I can play Fortnite with friends. PSA: you can have both Linux and Windows, or you can use a vm in Linux. Be (mostly) free from Microsoft's clammy hands.

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[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I always found having each OS have a separate physical drive is much better, but partitioning is fine if you must.

[–] 0x4E4F@infosec.pub 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Third world countries: We must 😔...

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a luxury indeed. Hopefully maybe a little less now that decent storage has come down in price a lot

[–] TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago

Not a luxury. A 128 GB SSD can be bought for about $25 (last year) or even cheaper now, and you buy once for many years, as home users write a lot less on SSDs.