SagaliciouzzzIf I do a dual boot of some kind of Ubuntu and Windows, do I get to keep the Windows part as it is now or is it a new installation of Windows? And if I want to make the full switch to Ubuntu, do I then get to keep the installation from the dual boot or do I have to install Ubuntu anew?
Steven Watt@Sagaliciouzzz You should be able to do both (assuming you have enough free disk space for the first one).
@steven_watt Yeah, otherwise it won't work. But when you say "both", do you mean "have both installed at the same time", or something else?
@Sagaliciouzzz Both = 1) You can keep Windows when you install Linux and 2) You can get rid of Windows without having to reinstall Linux.
@steven_watt Ah, cool! Thanks for clarifying, and for helping me.
@Sagaliciouzzz By the way, if you want to remove the Windows partition at some point but you still need to use certain Windows apps, you can run Windows inside Linux (I use Gnome Boxes for this, but there are several different options).
@steven_watt That is interesting! Do you know if it's hard to remove the Windows partition?
@Sagaliciouzzz Should be very simple to delete the Windows partition and assign the free space to a Linux partition. Getting rid of the Windows option on the bootloader might be a little more complicated.
@steven_watt Cool! Do you mean the menu I can access when I press F2 while the computer is loading? If I boot without pressning F2 it loads pop_OS automatically.
@Sagaliciouzzz OK, it sounds like you're not using a bootloader. Do you have Windows and Linux installed on two separate drives?
@Sagaliciouzzz Anyway that would make getting rid of the separate Windows installation even easier. You could still install it as a "virtual machine" inside Linux and be able to share files, copy and paste, etc with Linux apps.
@steven_watt If I install Windows as a virtual machine Inside Linux, do you think I could use that for the e-id that I've heard does not work with Linux?
Is that some sort of government id that uses a browser extension?
@Sagaliciouzzz Generally speaking, anything that works on a "real" Windows install will work on a Windows VM.
@steven_watt Nope, but on two different partitions on the same drive.