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A comm dedicated to the fight for free software with an anti-capitalist perspective.

The struggle for libre computing cannot be disentangled from other forms of socialist reform. One must be willing to reject proprietary software as fiercely as they would reject capitalism. Luckily, we are not alone.

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Resources

Free Software, Free Society provides an excellent primer in the origins and theory around free software and the GNU Project, the pioneers of the Free Software Movement.
Switch to GNU/Linux! If you're still using Windows in $CURRENT_YEAR, take Linux Mint for a spin. If you're ready to take the plunge, flock to Fedora! If you're a computer hobbyist and love DIY, use Arch, Gentoo, Guix or the many, many offerings out there.

Those on Apple Silicon Macs can consult Asahi Linux for available options.

Rules

Be on topic: Posts should be about free software and other hacktivst struggles. Topics about general tech news should be in the technology comm or programming comm. That doesn't mean all posts have to be serious though, memes are welcome!
Avoid using misleading terms/speading misinformation: Here's a great article about what those words are. In short, try to avoid parroting common Techbro lingo and topics.
Avoid being confrontational: People are in different stages of liberating their computing, focus on informing rather than accusing. Debatebro nonsense is not tolerated.
All site-wide rules still apply

Artwork

Xenia was meant to be an alternative to Tux and was created (licensed under CC0) by Alan Mackey in 1996.
Comm icon (of Xenia the Linux mascot) was originally created by @ioletsgo
Comm banner is a close up of "Dorlotons Degooglisons" by David Revoy (CC-BY 4.0) for Framasoft

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Linux beginner here. Are there any real downsides to dualbooting ? (hexbear.net)

submitted 4 months ago by 9to5@hexbear.net to c/libre@hexbear.net

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cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/6694770

I plan to do a pc upgrade very soon. Alongside that I plan to start with Mint. Is there any real or big downsides to dual booting ? Aside from the harddrive space lost ?

If I like or really like my time with Mint I would probably switch permanently but I felt like I wanted to test it for a couple of months before making a complete switch.

Im a big so that impacts my consideration. Dont really play much multiplayer shooters so I dont have a problem with kernel anticheat games not working.

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[–] mayo_cider@hexbear.net 6 points 4 months ago

Aside from the mentioned hard drive space, not really. If you don't change the default boot order, you'll have to select Linux manually on every boot, but that's easy to fix in BIOS. It's also helpful for accessing your old files if you don't want to immediately move everything over to Linux.

[–] TheModerateTankie@hexbear.net 3 points 3 months ago

Windows often doesn't play nice with the linux partition, and you might have to figure out how to fix the boot partition every once in a while or be locked out of linux.

It's best to install win and linux on a different drives and use the boot options from the bios to switch which drive you boot into.

[–] KelquunDotre@hexbear.net 2 points 3 months ago

Secure Boot and Fast startup if enabled on the windows side tend to cause more problems than baseline.

Expect Windows updates to nuke the bootloader of Linux fairly often, do NOT throw away your install live USB.