@@Abhi-lm6js uefi is like bios but newer and supports mouse input and a gui for bios screens bios means basic input output system and uefi means unified extensible firmware interface
Decided to try Fedora as my second OS on a desktop PC for doing personal projects and to learn Linux better. Huge thanks for such a detailed tutorial, everything works perfectly for me!
Even though I consider myself a season linux user with over 20 years of experience under my belt, I still find new things in videos like these. Today I learnt how to set the system to run off the real time clock and not have to update the time every time I log into windows... Thanks!
I am not a long time user, In fact I have only been using Linux for 1 year, But I have installed a bunch of Linux distros at least 30-50 times. But I still need to watch a video while installing just to be sure I do not mess this up. I Got no confidence here
I've dual booted Windows and Linux a lot. I know a lot of people have no problems but I had a couple of disasters (one trashing the other's bootloader usually). I ended up getting a SATA drive power switch module. This solved everything- just give power to the drive I want to boot from, plus a shared data drive that always has power.
I am new to Linux and wanted to have both Windows for gaming and Linux for personal use. After juggling through a lot of videos and articles, this one finally did it for me. Thank you so much for your effort.
And there you have it. I've just installed it successfully. Thumbs up man, you're doing things smoothly without any unnecessary interruptions. Thank you
Talk about secure boot, I just discovered recently that on Fedora 36 I don’t have to manually sign the extra driver modules every kernel upgrade anymore. Pretty nice that I finally can use secure boot full time without much hassle.
Oh really? With the proprietary Nvidia driver I had to sign it manually, does this mean that updating to a new kernel or new nvidia driver works seamlessly? I haven't been on Fedora long enough to have a nvidia driver update yet, kind of concerned that it will break secure boot every time (not like it's that hard to just sign the driver again with mokutil but kind of annoying)
Giving some feedback on my experience: make sure you boot the usb on UEFI mode. I had two options named "usb" and "uefi". I unfortunately used USB and ended up breaking my system. I did not understand anything but apparently I installed fedora on the BIOS while windows was installed on UEFI so Grun wasnt giving me choices between the two OS (was booting straight on fedora). So if you read this, make sure you do boot the USB key on the same boot mode as windows!!
Nice video. My experience is with older Windows 10 and Ubuntu 18.04. Both have a tendency to mess with UEFI boot order as part of bigger updates. In those cases efibootmgr (Linux) can be helpful. I’m using rEFInd as my primary boot manager (alternatives exist) it has its own rEFInd-mkdefault? that can help restore it as primary boot target. Using rEFInd it’s easy to set default OS and timeout - also has a nice GUI to select OS on boot.
First of all, you and everybody need Ventoy in your life right now! Most distros by default try to have only one EFI partition, the problem with that is that if you are using 2 drivers with different OSs, the OS in the second drive needs the first drive or it won’t boot, so if you decide to upgrade the first drive, you have to rebuild the EFI partition which can be a PITA. Fedora and Manjaro allow you to create a second EFI partition which you can use exclusively for you second OS even in a one drive. This way is less traumatic if you want to distrohoop or just get rid of the second OS, you just delete the second EFI partition and the OS partitions. Ubuntu base distros need a second drive and temporarily remove the first drive to create a “second” EFI partition even when the installer gives you the option to create a second EFI and select it. If you don’t want a second EFI, you have to edit the first EFI when you change or want to remove a second OS. I have 2 drives and 5 EFI partitions with Windows 10, 11, Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora and Manjaro
I have 3 different OSes (1 Windows 10 and 2 Linux distributions - Fedora and openSUSE) and all 3 are on separate actual SSDs. I installed Fedora with its own /boot/efi partition on the drive containing Fedora, and it found the Windows Boot Manager with no problem. I did the same with openSUSE (although, initially openSUSE tried to select my Fedora partition to install on instead of the blank SSD).OpenSUSE used its own /boot/efi partition and also found the Windows Boot Manager with no problem. The only issue I had was getting it to also include Fedora 36 on the boot screen. I fixed that by taking the script for the Fedora boot entry, copying it into a text file, then recreating it as a new boot entry in openSUSE. Now the openSUSE boot screen has all 3 operating systems in the boot menu. I could have gotten Fedora to locate the openSUSE boot entry, but I like the openSUSE graphical boot screen better; Fedora just uses the plain GRUB 2.6 boot menu.
UPDATE - for people facing problem in grub update after modifying the settings in Grub Customizer, Re-run the command `sudo grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg` after you tweak in Grub Customizer.
for anyone wondering, you can just install fedora without messing with secure boot and it "just works". ive been dual booting windows 11 + fedora for over a year and have never once had an issue.
I have been looking for a BOOT manager software for ages! It would be so much easier if could install a tiny software to a hard disk and them install any SO(Win or Linux) and just manager the boot system. Great video, thank you for sharing!
Nice to see this method I used for installing Mint to a Vista laptop having some pretty difficult hardware issues with graphics still works for Windows 11. Have a vga/dsub cable and monitor handy. Had to use an older Mint version due some unresolved issue, but got it working for a bit to see if I had some files I could still use in the Windows partition. Gladly my back ups had been frequent enough so tracking various temporary program files was kept to a minimum.
For me, my Windows Partition manager did not allow to shrink more than like 100 mb which clearly isn't enough. This was mainly because my 1tb SSD was almost full. Even after deleting some big games, I was only allowed to shrink the C drive to down 100 mb. However, using this partitioning software called AOMEI Partition Assistant, I was able to shrink my drive down to the size I wanted though it took quite a while. My guess is that it had to move quite a lot of files to create the partition. It is freeware, but just the free version works for what I needed to do. As of now, I'm proud to say that I have primarily using only Linux Fedora since May and have been enjoying it! I've only had to go into my Windows dual boot like 3 times, and every single time I'm only reminded of how much I dislike using Windows
There is also a youtube tutorial talking about this exact issue of being unable to shrink your partition close to the apparent free space. It only uses various settings already inside of windows, and doesn't need third party software.
Man, love you sooooo much! I was struggling with the Time Zone thing on an Ubuntu system and I was always like D...Q is going on, you just enlightened my path!!! Thanks a bunch!
Nice following along with you. I did this with Windows 10 and it was smooth. It was nice to use the custom option to get a full breakdown of how the installer is partitioning everything to your drive. I was a little worried when it got stuck at installing bootloader! It hung for a few minutes and I was nervous. Other than that I don't think I'm going to install grub-customizer because I'm fine with Fedora as default. Time to check out your other video now.
At this point with all the bs spying windows does, imo you're better off running windows 11 in a qemu kvm than dualbooting. that or, you know, not using windows and using linux with bottles or docker to run any windows software that you need to run;
i might try this. currently dual booting zorin and windows 10, which i need for school stuff and a few audio plugins and games. thanks for the recommendation! o7
unfortunately my CPU doesn't support VT-x (even if it does, it doesn't seem to be an option in my firmware settings) so dualbooting is the only option for me
Yep, my windows install is in a qemu KVM with GPU passthrough as well that I used only to play Halo Infinite haha it seems like I will delete Windows completely in a short term once Halo Infinite works reliably on Linux
I had tried dual booting in old laptop and it worked fine. But when I bought the new laptop with windows11 , it gave me lot of problem. So I did what a sensible person will do delete whole windows11 and installed fedora 36. It's like relationship you have to commit at some point.
great! You can use Fedora media writer for windows to burn the iso too. * You are right, installing fedora with the secure boot enabled is problematic, in my case, few days ago, I've installed fedora 39 with Secure boot enabled, when I've installed Nvidia akmod driver and then rebooted my laptop, I get the error message: "Nvidia kernel module missing, falling back to nouvea". * I've googled it and found I should disable secure boot before installing it. And I did and it worked like a charm. * Fedora requires at least 3 partitions as in your example, the wizard automatically did: /boot /boot/efi / * Altough you can only have /boot/efi and / partitions and Fedora works, you'll get a quick error message before grub window pops up at sturtup: "Error : ../../grub-core/console/loadenv.c:216:sparse file not allowed" . this message appears while booting fedora. * The solution: you have to create the missing partition upon insrallation: /boot as a separate partition. * Keep up the good work!
It’s complicated at keep Windows with Bitlocker, live side by side with Fedora with Luks2 disk encryption on same SSD, without option to disable secure boot. Enterprise “setup” is quite demanding. Go for Linux 100% and run windows in Linux as VM is better, as long gaming is not part of the equation.
My OCD would never allow a Windows partition size of 351.23 GB to pass. It would need to be a precise rounded number say 350 GB :) Every OS installation I do is done as GPT EFI.
As a former Windows user, when I first used Linux I tried dualbooting but honestly, Windows and Linux just refuse to play well most of the time when they share the same harddrive. Zorin was actually a very stable distro for dualbooting truth be told, but I wanted something a bit more popular to help me with issues I'd find along learning Linux so I moved to Pop!_OS. Now Pop HATES windows with a passion, partly because it doesn't use GRUB to boot up, so options to dualboot are harder to configure. I ended up just choosing to wipe my windows partition and go full linux and let me tell you -- it was the best decision I've ever made in computing! I've got two stunningly fast linux machines with great software support thanks to Proton, Wine, and the FOSS community. I've got better dev tools, better desktop management and customisation, and despite the caveats of Linux in 2022, it's come a long way since my first attempt at Ubuntu nearly a decade prior. Jumping head first into Linux was one of the best things you can do to pick up the OS and its quirks, as well as its strengths, and I hope people consider giving it a shot!
what you've just explained is exactly the overall main reason why I NEVER recommend having Linux and windows worlds inside the same single physical storage drive. even IF you set it up perfectly and everything about the setup in the correct order...a winturd update can STILL screw up your ability to boot into Linux, windows, or both at any time as long as that machine is connected online. I always recommend I stalling any Linux distro into it's own storage drive...always AND ensuring only one of the drives is connected while booting up the PC. keep them world's separate and you'll keep your data and sanity in tact while you learn how to use Linux at your own pace. that's PRECISELY how I was finally able to leave microshit to rot in the past 100 percent July 28 2020
@@motoryzen I have a few questions, yes separate SSDs are best for Windows and Linux. Can you have both SSDs in the same system connected? I think you were referring to multiple Linux distros on the same machine and why does it matter when all the different OS’s are on separate SSDs in the same machine? I’d like all my boot drives to be internal it’s quite a hassle unplugging cables or whatever just to boot a PC up.
Yes you can have both ssds connected upon powering on the system at the same time and hit the Fkey that opens quick boot menu if applicable..as long as you had only the one you were installing windows or Linux into connected during that installation wizard. This will prevent windows boot manager and Linux grub from crossing paths...and this you stand a better chance of those two worlds not crossing paths. It's not the most ideal to accomplish what I explained earlier, but a better happy medium at least. My mother's sff desktop runs this way as she is baby stepping into getting use to using Linux Mint Cinnamon. Anytime she must use WordPerfect and print something from it...she hits f11 and selects the windows ssd.
Great video, thank you! If possible, create a video on how to "replace" that Linux when you want to, say, install another distribution. I guess there should be a clean-up of boot menu entries? 🤔
Can definitely recommend putting Windows on a separate drive. It did some weird stuff on update to my partitions quite often and then i had to fix my Linux installation wich was just super annoying. I only use windows nowdays cuz i make Skyrim mods and modding that game on Linux is just super painful (wich modding already is by default).
your voice is smooth, video is clean, presentation, knowledge, persona etc everything is top notch for streaming, not irritating instead it grabs attention, i don't understand why you are getting only so much views!!!!, you deserve better.
yeap tech hit guy is pretty damn cool. Joe Collins aka EzeeLinux is another great Linux source...not AS active these days imo but still worth checking out
I have separate drives for both, with bootloaders on the same drive. So Windows and it's bootloader on one drive and Linux and grub on another. I use the motherboards boot selector (F11 on my mobo), to choose bootloader. Windows doesn't mess up Linux and vice versa...
I'm pretty sure when I installed Fedora on both my laptops that I had no issue with leaving secure boot enabled. Manjaro and a couple of other distros on the other hand, I did have to disable it first. And to do that, you might need to enable a BIOS/UEFI password. And just a note on installing Linux on the same drive as Windows. You can do it and it will generally run fine, but just be aware that if Windows gets upgraded to a new version (i.e Win10 to 11), you try to restore or rollback Windows, it will probably overwrite whatever partitions are currently on the drive (namely your Linux partitions) to what a fresh PC install of Windows would be. Sometimes this might be good if the Grub loader becomes unwieldy and confusing with no names added in the BIOS menus - as happened to me after installing other distro's after Fedora. Not all laptops have two SSDs in them either. If I do have two SSDs, what I've been doing of late is installing all operating systems on the one drive and keeping my home (personal) folders on the second drive and just pointing each Linux (or Windows) to that drive. If Windows decides to play silly games, they're generally safe from their wrath. And it's relatively quick (although a hassle) to re-install Linux. But the way I've been going with some distro's, it's been fine wiping the drive and putting something else on there LOL.
So friend, as u said and correct myself if i am wrong- u said that if on a single drive, we have installed Windows and Linux distribution both, then it may creates problems at the time of upgrades of Windows. Right. So can I install Linux distribution in another drive apart from Local C drive ? Is it makes sense. Means can I do this partition in another drive ?
@@Abhi-lm6js Yes you can put it on another physical drive, but not a different partition on the same drive (well you can, but if windows decided to update to say WIndows 11, then it will most likely reset your whole drive with windows on it (including a Linux install)
IIRC, if you disable blscfg, you'll have to remember to update grub each time a new kernel is installed. That might give you a few headaches if you forget to...
ya don't need a video on that. use balena etcher, Rufus, or Unetbootin to prep a thumb drive with the fedora iso ( that you'll need to download from their official site)..power off your PC, ( remove battery I'd it's a laptop) remove any and all windows involved storage drives..connect another storage drive inside where fedora can live)..power the PC back on with the fedora prepped thumb drive plugged in..( you may have to enter bios or UEFI to set the PC to boot from that thumb drive first) boot it up, select to load fedora and it is basically child's play from there.. obviously enough install instructions
Yo, after setup my fedora, idk why my screen like stucked here, i can move my cursor around i can access the wifi button. But i can't shut down the fedora, i can only suspend it, is it like installing proccess?
6:54 I just wanted to mention that if you do decide to disable secure boot and you're using Windows for games with anti-cheat... some of those games will stop you from launching it and throw an error saying "TPM or secure boot is not available". I've only encountered this problem in Windows 11 but yeaa it sucks . Which is why I chose Fedora in the first place cus it supports secure boot (and works great with my NVIDIA GPU)
@@snof7602 yes Fedora works fine just fine with Secure boot enabled. Unless you have an NVIDIA GPU (in which case you still can keep sb on but it's just gonna take like 3 commands in the terminal to get NVIDIA working. Other than that it's great)
Oh wow. I went exploring for myself in preferences-shortcuts and I do not have a save contents key combination configured. Trying to do that now so I can save future grub alterations and commands 🙂
for me win 11 doesn't work without secure boot because of BitLocker. And i doesn't show grub regardless of secure boot setting. I eventually got frustrated and formatted the nvme with win on it. And now everything is better.
I NEVER backup any data 😎 If you create any sort of backup it means you aren't sure of what you're doing, hence you're destined to fail. (jokes aside, I actually do have backups for important stuff)
I have a dual boot Windows 11 + Ubuntu 22.04 on my Acer Nitro 5 (I only use windows for gaming) I usually go trough the first path, split the disk and then I let Linux automatically set up the the installation, never had problems at all
Correct me if I'm wrong, but can't you just install Windows on one SSD then install Linux on another SSD on your machine? You should be able to switch it over in the UEFI/BIOS before boot
I did not enjoy Fedora Linux originally so I moved back to kubuntu. I have been using Nobara Linux official version and have been really enjoying it. The problems I have though is that I do use this laptop for work and with Fedora more up to date packages WebEx does not work.
dual boot w11 and fedora , secure boot is on in bios,just fast boot disabled in bios ,win11 setings fast startup disabled, everything works fine, w11 is on 1 ssd, fedora is on 2 ssd
I dunno why, but it didn’t work for me, when I boot from the USB device, i got this error message: Initramfs unpacking falled: X2-compressed data is corrupt
Nope... Not gonna load Fedora again... It's display settings sucks... In both Wayland and xorg, with Nvidia drivers installed... I get rays of lines when I move my cursor across my external monitor. Tried in type c and hdmi. Pop!_OS and EndeavoursOS are the best for laptops with dual graphics AMD and Nvidia
I've been using this exact approach for months and now I am facing storage issues in fedora I think I could get rid of some sporadically used applications but was wondering if there is a way to expand the space assigned to fedora.
Microsoft made a change in early August 2022 so that Windows 10 will no longer work in a dual boot. I have a Dell, which means I have only one HD option and no room for an upgrade. I was shocked they allowed an extra slot for RAM upgrades. The Dell tower doesn't have an extra mounting area for a full size HD, also there aren't any extra drive power cables. Also, Windows will not allow an upgrade to Win10Pro. I have a key but something isn't allowing an OS upgrade. For the idea of a tower, it appears to be micromanaged to the point of no return.
Please be careful. Sometimes windows updates crash due to dual boot - it works at first until Windows hits a major update - at least that is what happened to me.
So what is the preventive measures of it, if u suggest. Does partition in another drive instead of Local C where Windows resides, can be helpful or if it is illogical, then does there any way to create redundancy, because in theory, redundancy is the solution of many problems although it is costly
@@Abhi-lm6js The only solution I ever found was to either (1) use a virtual machine (windows vm inside Linux or Linux VM inside windows) or (2) have separate physical computers, 1 for Linux & 1 for Windows.
Invalid image Failed to read header: Unsupported Failed to load image: Unsupported start_image() returned Unsupported Showing this during boot. And unable to boot fron pendrive 😢
I installed dualboot of fedora 39 and fedora 39 on same drive. The 2'th install destroyed first install efi entry, but EFI was only mounted, not formatted. No os probe or grub update was able to fix that. It was encrypted btrfs.
From Windows, hold Shift while selecting Restart, you'll be able to select to boot into the UEFi. Beats hammering a keyboard.
Can u tell if u don't mind what is UEFi and what are u suggesting that can help
@@Abhi-lm6js uefi is like bios but newer and supports mouse input and a gui for bios screens
bios means basic input output system and uefi means unified extensible firmware interface
Lmao i forgot that option existed @Knight_IV
you sir, have saved my fingers and keyboards from years of abuse
Just hold the key brother.
Decided to try Fedora as my second OS on a desktop PC for doing personal projects and to learn Linux better. Huge thanks for such a detailed tutorial, everything works perfectly for me!
Even though I consider myself a season linux user with over 20 years of experience under my belt, I still find new things in videos like these. Today I learnt how to set the system to run off the real time clock and not have to update the time every time I log into windows... Thanks!
Yep. My first distro was Red Hat 5.2 and I didn't know that either.
Sir, 20 years?!? 😲
I am not a long time user,
In fact I have only been using Linux for 1 year,
But I have installed a bunch of Linux distros at least 30-50 times.
But I still need to watch a video while installing just to be sure I do not mess this up.
I Got no confidence here
@@johndoe7824 same here. Linux is a constant learning process, and I honestly dig that.
I've dual booted Windows and Linux a lot. I know a lot of people have no problems but I had a couple of disasters (one trashing the other's bootloader usually). I ended up getting a SATA drive power switch module. This solved everything- just give power to the drive I want to boot from, plus a shared data drive that always has power.
I am new to Linux and wanted to have both Windows for gaming and Linux for personal use. After juggling through a lot of videos and articles, this one finally did it for me. Thank you so much for your effort.
And there you have it. I've just installed it successfully. Thumbs up man, you're doing things smoothly without any unnecessary interruptions. Thank you
On tutorial everything is great. In real life, after installation, I have an "An operating system wasn't found." 🤣
Happens with me
Talk about secure boot, I just discovered recently that on Fedora 36 I don’t have to manually sign the extra driver modules every kernel upgrade anymore. Pretty nice that I finally can use secure boot full time without much hassle.
Oh really? With the proprietary Nvidia driver I had to sign it manually, does this mean that updating to a new kernel or new nvidia driver works seamlessly? I haven't been on Fedora long enough to have a nvidia driver update yet, kind of concerned that it will break secure boot every time (not like it's that hard to just sign the driver again with mokutil but kind of annoying)
Giving some feedback on my experience: make sure you boot the usb on UEFI mode. I had two options named "usb" and "uefi". I unfortunately used USB and ended up breaking my system. I did not understand anything but apparently I installed fedora on the BIOS while windows was installed on UEFI so Grun wasnt giving me choices between the two OS (was booting straight on fedora). So if you read this, make sure you do boot the USB key on the same boot mode as windows!!
Weird thing is my USB is not showing up on BIOS to change the boot manager
Nice video. My experience is with older Windows 10 and Ubuntu 18.04. Both have a tendency to mess with UEFI boot order as part of bigger updates. In those cases efibootmgr (Linux) can be helpful. I’m using rEFInd as my primary boot manager (alternatives exist) it has its own rEFInd-mkdefault? that can help restore it as primary boot target. Using rEFInd it’s easy to set default OS and timeout - also has a nice GUI to select OS on boot.
yeah, i installed windows 10 after installing linux mint and ended up overwriting the linux mint boot record
Me too! Because of having a wireless keyboard I needed something to boot with the mouse, so I found it. Everything is very visual and cool
First of all, you and everybody need Ventoy in your life right now!
Most distros by default try to have only one EFI partition, the problem with that is that if you are using 2 drivers with different OSs, the OS in the second drive needs the first drive or it won’t boot, so if you decide to upgrade the first drive, you have to rebuild the EFI partition which can be a PITA.
Fedora and Manjaro allow you to create a second EFI partition which you can use exclusively for you second OS even in a one drive. This way is less traumatic if you want to distrohoop or just get rid of the second OS, you just delete the second EFI partition and the OS partitions.
Ubuntu base distros need a second drive and temporarily remove the first drive to create a “second” EFI partition even when the installer gives you the option to create a second EFI and select it.
If you don’t want a second EFI, you have to edit the first EFI when you change or want to remove a second OS.
I have 2 drives and 5 EFI partitions with Windows 10, 11, Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora and Manjaro
I have 3 different OSes (1 Windows 10 and 2 Linux distributions - Fedora and openSUSE) and all 3 are on separate actual SSDs. I installed Fedora with its own /boot/efi partition on the drive containing Fedora, and it found the Windows Boot Manager with no problem. I did the same with openSUSE (although, initially openSUSE tried to select my Fedora partition to install on instead of the blank SSD).OpenSUSE used its own /boot/efi partition and also found the Windows Boot Manager with no problem. The only issue I had was getting it to also include Fedora 36 on the boot screen.
I fixed that by taking the script for the Fedora boot entry, copying it into a text file, then recreating it as a new boot entry in openSUSE. Now the openSUSE boot screen has all 3 operating systems in the boot menu.
I could have gotten Fedora to locate the openSUSE boot entry, but I like the openSUSE graphical boot screen better; Fedora just uses the plain GRUB 2.6 boot menu.
UPDATE - for people facing problem in grub update after modifying the settings in Grub Customizer,
Re-run the command `sudo grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg` after you tweak in Grub Customizer.
Bro thank you so much ❤ Now Windows is my first boot option, the way I wanted it to be.
Thanks mate
This is a great tutorial, thank you. Worked for my Fedora 39 and Windows 11
Big difference in doing tech stuff and being an IT guy, thanks for being the latter. Very well done without the fluff.
for anyone wondering, you can just install fedora without messing with secure boot and it "just works". ive been dual booting windows 11 + fedora for over a year and have never once had an issue.
I have been looking for a BOOT manager software for ages! It would be so much easier if could install a tiny software to a hard disk and them install any SO(Win or Linux) and just manager the boot system. Great video, thank you for sharing!
A boot manager? Personally I use either rEFInd or Ventoy :) Both great pieces of software!
Nice to see this method I used for installing Mint to a Vista laptop having some pretty difficult hardware issues with graphics still works for Windows 11. Have a vga/dsub cable and monitor handy. Had to use an older Mint version due some unresolved issue, but got it working for a bit to see if I had some files I could still use in the Windows partition. Gladly my back ups had been frequent enough so tracking various temporary program files was kept to a minimum.
For me, my Windows Partition manager did not allow to shrink more than like 100 mb which clearly isn't enough. This was mainly because my 1tb SSD was almost full. Even after deleting some big games, I was only allowed to shrink the C drive to down 100 mb. However, using this partitioning software called AOMEI Partition Assistant, I was able to shrink my drive down to the size I wanted though it took quite a while. My guess is that it had to move quite a lot of files to create the partition. It is freeware, but just the free version works for what I needed to do.
As of now, I'm proud to say that I have primarily using only Linux Fedora since May and have been enjoying it! I've only had to go into my Windows dual boot like 3 times, and every single time I'm only reminded of how much I dislike using Windows
how much linux experience did you have bbeforehand?
There is also a youtube tutorial talking about this exact issue of being unable to shrink your partition close to the apparent free space.
It only uses various settings already inside of windows, and doesn't need third party software.
Man, love you sooooo much! I was struggling with the Time Zone thing on an Ubuntu system and I was always like D...Q is going on, you just enlightened my path!!! Thanks a bunch!
Nice following along with you. I did this with Windows 10 and it was smooth. It was nice to use the custom option to get a full breakdown of how the installer is partitioning everything to your drive. I was a little worried when it got stuck at installing bootloader! It hung for a few minutes and I was nervous. Other than that I don't think I'm going to install grub-customizer because I'm fine with Fedora as default. Time to check out your other video now.
At this point with all the bs spying windows does, imo you're better off running windows 11 in a qemu kvm than dualbooting. that or, you know, not using windows and using linux with bottles or docker to run any windows software that you need to run;
Yeah my Windows install is in a Proxmox container. Works really good.
i might try this. currently dual booting zorin and windows 10, which i need for school stuff and a few audio plugins and games. thanks for the recommendation! o7
unfortunately my CPU doesn't support VT-x (even if it does, it doesn't seem to be an option in my firmware settings) so dualbooting is the only option for me
Yep, my windows install is in a qemu KVM with GPU passthrough as well that I used only to play Halo Infinite haha it seems like I will delete Windows completely in a short term once Halo Infinite works reliably on Linux
I would but MP games doesn’t really work on Linux.
Thanks I finally someone talking professionally on the subject...
I had tried dual booting in old laptop and it worked fine. But when I bought the new laptop with windows11 , it gave me lot of problem. So I did what a sensible person will do delete whole windows11 and installed fedora 36. It's like relationship you have to commit at some point.
Thank you. I have successfully completed installing my Linux.
I am dual booting Win10 and OpenSUSE Leap at the moment on our secondary machine 😎🙏
Thank you for the video. I was able to dual boot Fedora with Windows 11 🙌
great! You can use Fedora media writer for windows to burn the iso too.
* You are right, installing fedora with the secure boot enabled is problematic, in my case, few days ago, I've installed fedora 39 with Secure boot enabled, when I've installed Nvidia akmod driver and then rebooted my laptop, I get the error message: "Nvidia kernel module missing, falling back to nouvea".
* I've googled it and found I should disable secure boot before installing it. And I did and it worked like a charm.
* Fedora requires at least 3 partitions as in your example, the wizard automatically did:
/boot
/boot/efi
/
* Altough you can only have /boot/efi and / partitions and Fedora works, you'll get a quick error message before grub window pops up at sturtup:
"Error : ../../grub-core/console/loadenv.c:216:sparse file not allowed" . this message appears while booting fedora.
* The solution: you have to create the missing partition upon insrallation: /boot as a separate partition.
* Keep up the good work!
It’s complicated at keep Windows with Bitlocker, live side by side with Fedora with Luks2 disk encryption on same SSD, without option to disable secure boot. Enterprise “setup” is quite demanding. Go for Linux 100% and run windows in Linux as VM is better, as long gaming is not part of the equation.
My OCD would never allow a Windows partition size of 351.23 GB to pass. It would need to be a precise rounded number say 350 GB :) Every OS installation I do is done as GPT EFI.
OCD High five 🤣💪
As a former Windows user, when I first used Linux I tried dualbooting but honestly, Windows and Linux just refuse to play well most of the time when they share the same harddrive. Zorin was actually a very stable distro for dualbooting truth be told, but I wanted something a bit more popular to help me with issues I'd find along learning Linux so I moved to Pop!_OS.
Now Pop HATES windows with a passion, partly because it doesn't use GRUB to boot up, so options to dualboot are harder to configure. I ended up just choosing to wipe my windows partition and go full linux and let me tell you -- it was the best decision I've ever made in computing!
I've got two stunningly fast linux machines with great software support thanks to Proton, Wine, and the FOSS community. I've got better dev tools, better desktop management and customisation, and despite the caveats of Linux in 2022, it's come a long way since my first attempt at Ubuntu nearly a decade prior. Jumping head first into Linux was one of the best things you can do to pick up the OS and its quirks, as well as its strengths, and I hope people consider giving it a shot!
I'm dual booting pop os with windows at this very moment. Where did you have problems?
what you've just explained is exactly the overall main reason why I NEVER recommend having Linux and windows worlds inside the same single physical storage drive.
even IF you set it up perfectly and everything about the setup in the correct order...a winturd update can STILL screw up your ability to boot into Linux, windows, or both at any time as long as that machine is connected online.
I always recommend I stalling any Linux distro into it's own storage drive...always AND ensuring only one of the drives is connected while booting up the PC.
keep them world's separate and you'll keep your data and sanity in tact while you learn how to use Linux at your own pace.
that's PRECISELY how I was finally able to leave microshit to rot in the past 100 percent July 28 2020
@@motoryzen I have a few questions, yes separate SSDs are best for Windows and Linux. Can you have both SSDs in the same system connected?
I think you were referring to multiple Linux distros on the same machine and why does it matter when all the different OS’s are on separate SSDs in the same machine?
I’d like all my boot drives to be internal it’s quite a hassle unplugging cables or whatever just to boot a PC up.
Yes you can have both ssds connected upon powering on the system at the same time and hit the Fkey that opens quick boot menu if applicable..as long as you had only the one you were installing windows or Linux into connected during that installation wizard.
This will prevent windows boot manager and Linux grub from crossing paths...and this you stand a better chance of those two worlds not crossing paths.
It's not the most ideal to accomplish what I explained earlier, but a better happy medium at least.
My mother's sff desktop runs this way as she is baby stepping into getting use to using Linux Mint Cinnamon.
Anytime she must use WordPerfect and print something from it...she hits f11 and selects the windows ssd.
@@motoryzen Thanks! Now it is more clear!
Thank you mate! Your video are extremely accurate and explicative.
Thank you very much for such a great detailed video. It helped me alot 😊
I don't see how to dual boot, what I see is "How to betray Windows". Lmao
Cringe
@@angganarotama so?
Great! Works with dual boot Windows 11 Pro and Fedora 39 Workstation. Regards.
Great video, thank you!
If possible, create a video on how to "replace" that Linux when you want to, say, install another distribution. I guess there should be a clean-up of boot menu entries? 🤔
BROTHER, YOU ARE THE BEST!!! You oooh really helped me!! THANK YOU VERY MUCH!This is cool, well done!
Thank you for these tutorial i might try this later for sure!
Awesome video! Thanks! About to try Fedora.
good walktrough very easy to follow
Can definitely recommend putting Windows on a separate drive. It did some weird stuff on update to my partitions quite often and then i had to fix my Linux installation wich was just super annoying.
I only use windows nowdays cuz i make Skyrim mods and modding that game on Linux is just super painful (wich modding already is by default).
Thanks for the time command! Learned something from this video! :)
you are good! and your english is so good to listening and understand for non natives.
your voice is smooth, video is clean, presentation, knowledge, persona etc everything is top notch for streaming, not irritating instead it grabs attention, i don't understand why you are getting only so much views!!!!, you deserve better.
Thank you, with time :)
yeap tech hit guy is pretty damn cool.
Joe Collins aka EzeeLinux is another great Linux source...not AS active these days imo but still worth checking out
Really good turorial helped me out a lot!
HUGE help! Thank you so much.
Thank you very much! I'm waiting a new drive to arrive so I can try linux(Fedora) for the first time :)
Why don't you use Ventoy? It allows you to have multiple distro's on one USB stick
I have separate drives for both, with bootloaders on the same drive. So Windows and it's bootloader on one drive and Linux and grub on another. I use the motherboards boot selector (F11 on my mobo), to choose bootloader.
Windows doesn't mess up Linux and vice versa...
Man, I love your channel! Thank you!
just installed fedora a few weeks ago on my dual boot system. oh well still a fun watch as always
Did you run into any problems?
Those Protoarc products look nice... I like the design. Very Thinkpad-esque pre-Lenovo.
Brandon: Make sure is moderately stronk
Password:
Ty. Watching this on my new Linux machine.
13:00 weird it doesn't reserve anything for swap
I'm pretty sure when I installed Fedora on both my laptops that I had no issue with leaving secure boot enabled. Manjaro and a couple of other distros on the other hand, I did have to disable it first. And to do that, you might need to enable a BIOS/UEFI password.
And just a note on installing Linux on the same drive as Windows. You can do it and it will generally run fine, but just be aware that if Windows gets upgraded to a new version (i.e Win10 to 11), you try to restore or rollback Windows, it will probably overwrite whatever partitions are currently on the drive (namely your Linux partitions) to what a fresh PC install of Windows would be. Sometimes this might be good if the Grub loader becomes unwieldy and confusing with no names added in the BIOS menus - as happened to me after installing other distro's after Fedora.
Not all laptops have two SSDs in them either. If I do have two SSDs, what I've been doing of late is installing all operating systems on the one drive and keeping my home (personal) folders on the second drive and just pointing each Linux (or Windows) to that drive. If Windows decides to play silly games, they're generally safe from their wrath. And it's relatively quick (although a hassle) to re-install Linux. But the way I've been going with some distro's, it's been fine wiping the drive and putting something else on there LOL.
So friend, as u said and correct myself if i am wrong- u said that if on a single drive, we have installed Windows and Linux distribution both, then it may creates problems at the time of upgrades of Windows. Right. So can I install Linux distribution in another drive apart from Local C drive ? Is it makes sense. Means can I do this partition in another drive ?
@@Abhi-lm6js Yes you can put it on another physical drive, but not a different partition on the same drive (well you can, but if windows decided to update to say WIndows 11, then it will most likely reset your whole drive with windows on it (including a Linux install)
what a coincidence? I'm also using the exact same usb drive. I like to use ventoy instead of rufus because I can have multiple ISO images
worked for me, no issues !!
Thanks man now I can enjoy both Linux and Windows 😃
IIRC, if you disable blscfg, you'll have to remember to update grub each time a new kernel is installed. That might give you a few headaches if you forget to...
Thank you, this is indeed helpful
Nice JOB ! Reaaly helpfull ! Thank you !
Sir, please make a video on "How to replace windows 10/11 with fedora" 🙏
ya don't need a video on that.
use balena etcher, Rufus, or Unetbootin to prep a thumb drive with the fedora iso ( that you'll need to download from their official site)..power off your PC, ( remove battery I'd it's a laptop) remove any and all windows involved storage drives..connect another storage drive inside where fedora can live)..power the PC back on with the fedora prepped thumb drive plugged in..( you may have to enter bios or UEFI to set the PC to boot from that thumb drive first) boot it up, select to load fedora and it is basically child's play from there.. obviously enough install instructions
Awesome video, thanks!
This is awesome presentation. Thanks
Here's a drinking game; every time TechHut says fedora or tip, you tip your fedora, say "m'lady" and do a good gulp from your craft beer
4:40 Isn’t 1GB = 1024MB and not 1000? Or is that only with MiB to GiB? I might be confusing megabytes with mebibytes.
Edit: spelling.
I mean, there's an option to make grub auto-select the last thing you booted into, kinda like bootcamp
nobody ever mentions verifying the iso
Yo, after setup my fedora, idk why my screen like stucked here, i can move my cursor around i can access the wifi button. But i can't shut down the fedora, i can only suspend it, is it like installing proccess?
6:54 I just wanted to mention that if you do decide to disable secure boot and you're using Windows for games with anti-cheat... some of those games will stop you from launching it and throw an error saying "TPM or secure boot is not available". I've only encountered this problem in Windows 11 but yeaa it sucks . Which is why I chose Fedora in the first place cus it supports secure boot (and works great with my NVIDIA GPU)
Did you let secure boot enable and it installed fine as dual boot ?
@@snof7602 yes Fedora works fine just fine with Secure boot enabled. Unless you have an NVIDIA GPU (in which case you still can keep sb on but it's just gonna take like 3 commands in the terminal to get NVIDIA working. Other than that it's great)
@@r.g7261 thank you
thanks for keeping it post
Oh wow. I went exploring for myself in preferences-shortcuts and I do not have a save contents key combination configured. Trying to do that now so I can save future grub alterations and commands 🙂
thank you so much , it worked 🙂
for me win 11 doesn't work without secure boot because of BitLocker. And i doesn't show grub regardless of secure boot setting. I eventually got frustrated and formatted the nvme with win on it. And now everything is better.
worked first time. super easy
onee question, can i use the fedora image writing tool aswell?
of course :)
I NEVER backup any data 😎
If you create any sort of backup it means you aren't sure of what you're doing, hence you're destined to fail.
(jokes aside, I actually do have backups for important stuff)
I have a dual boot Windows 11 + Ubuntu 22.04 on my Acer Nitro 5 (I only use windows for gaming)
I usually go trough the first path, split the disk and then I let Linux automatically set up the the installation, never had problems at all
Thank you for the video
Correct me if I'm wrong, but can't you just install Windows on one SSD then install Linux on another SSD on your machine? You should be able to switch it over in the UEFI/BIOS before boot
@@catch82 I thought so. Thanks catch82
I'd say add swap while partitioning but eh you do you ig
I did not enjoy Fedora Linux originally so I moved back to kubuntu. I have been using Nobara Linux official version and have been really enjoying it. The problems I have though is that I do use this laptop for work and with Fedora more up to date packages WebEx does not work.
plus Windows 11 tends to complain if secure boot is disabled. Heck, even Windows 10 griped when this was turned off.
What's the BEST HARDWARE to use when running a Linux distro on an x86 platform - for normal or even optimal performance?
dual boot w11 and fedora , secure boot is on in bios,just fast boot disabled in bios ,win11 setings fast startup disabled, everything works fine,
w11 is on 1 ssd, fedora is on 2 ssd
Always hated dual booting, but would definitely do it if I always used a laptop.
Great illustration and explanation. Have subscribed. Can you do the same with Red Hat 9.2/Windows 11 in the same way? Thanks.
I dunno why, but it didn’t work for me, when I boot from the USB device, i got this error message: Initramfs unpacking falled: X2-compressed data is corrupt
I created a new grub.cfg and reordered a loading sequence, but at the boot process the order remained the same (Feroda 40).
Thank man
Nope... Not gonna load Fedora again... It's display settings sucks... In both Wayland and xorg, with Nvidia drivers installed... I get rays of lines when I move my cursor across my external monitor. Tried in type c and hdmi.
Pop!_OS and EndeavoursOS are the best for laptops with dual graphics AMD and Nvidia
Windows never had any chance 🤣
I've been using this exact approach for months and now I am facing storage issues in fedora
I think I could get rid of some sporadically used applications but was wondering if there is a way to expand the space assigned to fedora.
Microsoft made a change in early August 2022 so that Windows 10 will no longer work in a dual boot. I have a Dell, which means I have only one HD option and no room for an upgrade. I was shocked they allowed an extra slot for RAM upgrades. The Dell tower doesn't have an extra mounting area for a full size HD, also there aren't any extra drive power cables. Also, Windows will not allow an upgrade to Win10Pro. I have a key but something isn't allowing an OS upgrade. For the idea of a tower, it appears to be micromanaged to the point of no return.
Link? I dualbooted with openSUSE and fedora and had no issues.
Please be careful. Sometimes windows updates crash due to dual boot - it works at first until Windows hits a major update - at least that is what happened to me.
So what is the preventive measures of it, if u suggest. Does partition in another drive instead of Local C where Windows resides, can be helpful or if it is illogical, then does there any way to create redundancy, because in theory, redundancy is the solution of many problems although it is costly
@@Abhi-lm6js The only solution I ever found was to either (1) use a virtual machine (windows vm inside Linux or Linux VM inside windows) or (2) have separate physical computers, 1 for Linux & 1 for Windows.
Thanks for the tutorial.
Just one thing: At the 4:30 mark, is 128GB = 131072MB ?
Yes. The reason is because 1GB is equal to 1024MB.
Invalid image
Failed to read header: Unsupported
Failed to load image: Unsupported
start_image() returned Unsupported
Showing this during boot. And unable to boot fron pendrive 😢
I installed dualboot of fedora 39 and fedora 39 on same drive. The 2'th install destroyed first install efi entry, but EFI was only mounted, not formatted. No os probe or grub update was able to fix that. It was encrypted btrfs.
And what should i type in terminal
if I have Nobara instead of Fedora? sudo grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/efi/EFI/nobara/grub.cfg ?
Just wanted to say I tried installing the KDE spin with balena etcher and it didn't pass the media test but rufus worked