I used Manjaro Linux on my first pc back in 2019 for a short time.
I’ll be having my second pc in a few days and I was hoping to shift to Zorin OS permanently.
But, due to an unavoidable reason, I have to use 2 of Adobe softwares. Especially Illustrator and Photoshop. Both version 2021.
Will these 2 be almost perfectly usable in Zorin OS or should I Dual boot windows 11 alongside to use them?
FWIW, I dualbooted for years fine with win10 and Arch - the trick is to keep them separated. let windows have it’s own ssd and linux it’s own, that way the darn windows don’t nuke other boot entries willynilly when notepad gets an update.
This approach needs 2 storage devices tho, and you switch which to boot from bios/uefi.
But on the upside, this makes no changes to either linux or windows, as both are on separate storage devices. Both have their own boot partitions. When you want to get rid of either, you can just remove partitions from the unwanted os’ ssd and make new ones.
So, the method of dualbooting 2 OS on 2 SSDs is the same as standard dualbooting in one single SSD? Or I have to follow some extra careful measure?
it does the “same thing” but it’s the low-iq unga-bunga-caveman option which requires less configuration. Meaning you don’t get a boot menu to choose the os on boot.
if you want to be extra careful, just remove the ssd of the first os when installing the other on it’s ssd & insert back when done. then just in bios/uefi switch which storage device to boot from.