Kanito 73 writes:
HelloFinally I bought the laptop with Ryzen 5, it arrived yesterday. At first I backed up (clonezilla) the whole brand new system (Windows 10) before running for first time to have a virgin copy of the original system. Today I will erase the disks to create partitions and install both Windows 10 and Linux, but I'm not sure about how to organize the space. The laptop comes with a 1Tb HDD and a 128Gb SDD. Windows 10 is installed on the 128Gb SDD and the whole
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(Can Linux run on "sdb" (Windows on "sda")?)
Yes, it can.
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My suggestions are as follows
* Install the primary OS (the one you use more) on the SSD.
It will improve application startup times and update processes
both of which one needs to perform rather often independently of
system usage.
* If your primary OS is Linux, consider using the 128 GiB SSD for
Linux only and put a decent swap partition on it to aid with
data-intensive applications (how much RAM does your laptop have?)
* Instead of installing the secondary (i.e. less-often-used) OS on
the 1T HDD, consider running it as a virtual machine under the
primary OS. For Linux, you can use virt-manager + KVM, for Windows
(if you have Windows 10 Pro), you can use Microsoft Hyper-V.
Advantages of this approach:
+ No need to restart the computer to access the secondary OS.
Especially: No need to restart the computer to install
security updates for Linux. If you use Linux host systems:
No need to restart the computer except for
applying kernel upgrades.
+ No need to worry about Windows' rapid startup feature that
does not shutdown the computer but rather goes into some
special suspend-to-disk mode. It can cause file system
corruption if data is accessed by another OS while Windows
is in that state. Modern Linux will most likely warn
you before it happens, though :)
+ You can share data through a networked file system (SMB,
even if it is only between Host and VM) and store it in
the host OS' native file system.
Rationale: I'd advise against using NTFS productively
for Linux data (although I have not tried it extensively).
+ You can start by putting both OS on the SSD and once space
gets filled-up move the virtual HDD to the 1T HDD. Depending
on the usage pattern, 128G SSD may be enough for both
[I know that I'd exceed it pretty quickly, but I use larger
SSDs for that reason...]
* If Windows is your primary OS, Microsoft has made some interesting
progress in supporting the use of Linux applications. Check out the
"Windows Subsystem for Linux 2" (WSL2) and Linux Docker containers
on Windows (Docker on Windows boils down to a hidden VM IIRC).
HTH
Linux-Fan
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