G’day,

I decided to put Linux Mint on my laptop without dual booting for a while first. I have come to the realisation that I still need Windows but am having a hard time getting an installation happening. I downloaded the official Windows 11 .iso and created a bootable flash drive in Mint. It works but stops when it asks for drivers. Is this a laptop thing or an Acer thing?

  • RelativeArea0@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Personally, I really would not advise dual booting because the hassle is not really worth it, unless theyre on seperate drives.

    It is because of mbr vs gpt partition and some weird bs from laptop manufacturers

    Mbr are mostly on older systems and could only support up to 4 partitions, legacy boot works on this, so if someone decided to add another os, it adds another partition and most likely to jank that persons pc

    Gpt is newer, could support more than 4 partitions, runs only on efi, so someone would be like, cool, why not set my drives to gpt instead

    Unfortunately, most laptop manufacturers do some bs called instant lock to secure boot if you change to efi boot, the problem with secure boot is that it only works on 1 os, the manufacturer of that laptop already decided that you’ll only run 1 os and its windows, so dual booting on efi is a no go

    So if you really need windows in a linux machine is vm, try vm. Most vms support pcie passthrough, (unless acer has some weird implementation).

    Or the other way around, nuke your linux then return to windows.

    Or if your laptop has 2 drives, then you can go 1 drive linux, 1 drive windows.