I’m looking to install Linux on our home laptop and see if I can convince my wife to migrate off Windows. Since I’m not sure there won’t be times we need or want to boot back into Windows, I want to set it up so we can dual boot. The laptop only has a spot for one drive however so I can’t use two drives and chose them with the bios. I know in the past Windows has been problematic with dual boot setups on a single drive, corrupting the boot drive following updates and what-not. I’d really like to avoid that if possible.

Any suggestions on how best to go about it, or something I should at least avoid because it’s known to be problematic?

  • DaGeek247@fedia.io
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    8 days ago

    we always use this laptop for our taxes, so TurboTax. Disk-wise

    Independent of your experiements with Linux, it may be a good idea to switch away from turbotax. They’ve been lobbying to make filing taxes harder for the past 20 years.

    More relevant to the Linux discussion at hand, they’re locked into a specific operating system, whereas the alternatives are much more modern and work just fine in a regular web browser. I’ve had good success across three states with freetaxusa, personally.