Consider These When You Dual boot Linux and Windows
Here are some things I learned about dual booting Linux and Windows:
Install Windows first.
This made me and my friend panic because we didn’t know what was going on. Turns out that GRUB took over the bootloader. You might have difficulty dealing with that if you don’t have a more experienced Linux user with you around. We did and after that, we learned that we’d just keep on installing Windows first every time we have to dual boot.
Think about the number and sizes of the partitions you need.
I need a swap partition, a root partition and a home partition. Well, at least that’s what I consider all the time. Others consider a partition that Windows and Linux could easily read and write to. (A FAT32 partition.) If you’d do a lot of reading and writing of files in both Linux and Windows, you might as well make that partition big. That, or, get an external drive. Hehe. ;) As for the size of the swap partition, my friends have recommended to me that I have it twice as big as my RAM. In any case, you could check out
Jon ’s explanation on whether a swap partition is necessary or not.
If you mainly need Windows for testing some stuff, you could opt to go for virtualization.
I haven’t tried vmware yet. But I’ve been thinking about it. My partner who’s a Linux geek uses Ubuntu and installed vmware for the things he needs to check out on Windows. Aside from vmware, you could use VirtualBox too. :)
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