Richmond composed on 2017-02-06 19:30 (UTC):
John Andersen wrote:
Alec Destry wrote:
My experience has been is that dual boot has always been full of problems. Instead of dual boot, you might consider making Leap 42.2 the only OS for your computer, install VMWare Workstation Player 12.5 under Leap 42.2 and then put Windows 10 in a virtual machine under VMWare Workstation Player 12.5.
I concur. Dual boot issues are the biggest source of problems I notice regardless of Distro. (Followed closely by Nvidia issues). I might look into VirtualBox instead of Vmware Player.
Gamers might look into Windows as the bare-metal operating system, because there are slight performance hits being in a virtual machine.
Well, dual boot /with windows/ maybe. But read between the lines, /Windows/ has always been a problem screwing up boot sectors.
Windows "screws up" boot sectors only after a GNU installer or updater has "screwed up" boot sectors by replacing generic boot code with proprietary boot code. If GNU OSes were installing agnostically (OS neutral) by default, Windows wouldn't be doing the very same thing GNUs do, stomping on what's already there. It doesn't have to be that way: https://old-en.opensuse.org/Bugs/grub#How_does_a_PC_boot_.2F_How_can_I_set_u...
I keep a grub2 rescue disk on hand just in case, but I rarely get problems. But then I have no secure boot, and only Vista and XP. With multiboot, there uncommonly is any need to fumble around looking for "rescue" media. All my internal HDs have amounted to rescue disks since last century. I've been multi-booting since before Linux 0.1, somewhere around 25 years, whenever it was that OS/2 2.0 was released. Multiboot systems here outnumber single boot systems somewhere around 30+:1. Multiboot is really not hard when no GNU installer or updater is permitted to expunge generic boot code from the MBR. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation)
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