A couple of days ago I configured a Windows VM to allow the Linux host to access some shares. At an earlier occasion, I had abandoned the attempt because Option 1 sounded like a lot of work, and I...

Horses for courses. Although Linux is much better put together than Windows, that is not the only thing that counts. There are also familiarity with the system, what your colleagues use, what you do...

Congrats for trying something else. At the least, it will widen your horizon. As to cost, you may shop around for a refurbished machine, but pay attention to the last supported OS version. And on...

You could also try WoeUSB (GitHub - WoeUSB/WoeUSB: A Microsoft Windows(R) USB installation media preparer for GNU+Linux), which runs under linux. When I tested it one time in the past year, it hang...

On Archlinux it works fine for me when freerdp is installed as well.

HP is pretty good with service manuals; try to find one and see what it says about upgrades. Also, the Crucial site can tell you what upgrades it has for your hardware.

Of course you are right. Unfortunately, on a laptop this may be easier said than done. In which case it may be better to put all OSs on the primary drive, and bulky data on the second.

You can also turn the image into a backing store, and create a new image based on that backing store:

qemu-img create -f qcow2 -F qcow2 -b current_image.qcow2 new_image.qcow2

Then all changes...

Assuming this is an uefi system. There have been reports that the Ubuntu installer ignores the user's choice of the disk to contain the Linux EFI partition. Theoretically, it should be possible to...

There is a Linux utility woeusb for creating from within Linux a windows installer boot stick. This utility knows how to deal with a large .wim: WoeUSB .

There is also a re-implementation...

Most or all mainstream linuxes support UEFI booting. Ubuntu and some others also support secure boot. Check your linux distro website for advice on installing linux next to windows.

Does ubuntu have write access to windows? If so, it may be safer to mount windows r/o under ubuntu and to create an additional ntfs partition for exchanging files between windows and ubuntu.

@TairikuOkami Is home really lighter? I was under the impression that they were identical, but with some features disabled in Home.

Last week, we bought a new HP LaserJet printer (model M118dw) and connected it to our home network. It works fine from Linux, iOS and MacOS, without requiring a printer-specific driver. I understand...

Maybe not. Since the system is MBR-partitioned, it may not support UEFI booting or, if it does, there may be problems such as a non-configurable default boot, which would force you to boot Linux via...

Windows 10 won't help you boot Linux, at least not without 3rd party software.

But if you run update-grub in Linux, then grub will include a Windows entry. But it has been a long time since I have...

I often start out with DDG but if it does not find what I need, or if there are too many false positives, then I try google. Just need to prepend '!g ' to the text in the searchbox.

Thanks, that did it!

My laptop (HP ProBook 4330s) contains an SSD with Ubuntu Linux and a HDD in a caddy with Windows 10 Pro, 2004 edition. Both are installed in UEFI mode, and each drive has its own EFI partition for...

Neither did I before I hit that page.

Glad it worked out for you.

Here Ubuntu installation on computers with Intel(R) RST enabled is another long story about Intel RST and dual-booting Windows and Ubuntu. It involves, among other things, making some registry...

Windows drivers are of no concern to Linux. In my case, I have an Intel NUC8i3BEH, which has an optane-compatible NVMe slot, which I use for an SSD, and a regular SATA slot, which contains an HDD....

7zip is open source (LGPL). From the wikipedia 7z page: The 7z file format specification is distributed with 7-Zip's source code. The specification can be found in plain text format in the 'doc'...

I remember looking at it years ago, when I viewed it as a real problem. But at the time it did not yet support uefi boot. I see that now it does, but the current situation is not bad enough to...

My laptop (HP ProBook 4330s) has a similar problem: the path of the boot efi-file is hardcoded in the firmware. One can move or rename the windows boot file, put the grub boot file in its place and...