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Originally Posted by g__day
Watching a Youtube video of dual booting Ubuntu for a Windows user - the steps don't seem so hard - so I think I will wait until release 1.9 comes out and how performance is reported on large core rigs on Ubuntu versus Windows.
If I were to dual boot I would likely add a new drive to be the boot drive then its see if you can add a boot manager to a PCIE x4 NVME drive and have the rig boot from that - and likely switch Hyperthreading back on when I play with Linux.
Seems like lot of effort to get back 30% - 70% of performance that is lost since release 1.9.8.1 to release 1.8.9.3 for reasons Jaun as CEO of the PI simply can't get to the bottom of!
But yes on the upside - these systems are still very fast!
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Hi Matthew - great idea on dual booting and having a separate drive makes it cleaner rather than reducing the windows partition size (but can be done). just be aware that the systems will run different partition formats - windows uses NTFS and linux you can choose either ext4 or btrfs. what this effectively means is that windows won't be able to see files on the linux formatted drives. while on the other hand linux can see the windows partition and copy / paste files from the windows drives. I was thinking you may have had some trouble editing files on the windows partition from linux but i've just tested it and it seems to be work fine.
Also if you don't like the GNOME desktop look that Ubuntu uses you can choose another of the ubuntu
flavours that is ubuntu under the hood but with a different desktop environment (look and feel of the icons some default programs, application menu/launcher etc)
https://ubuntu.com/desktop/flavours - I would recommend Kubuntu 24.10
https://kubuntu.org/getkubuntu/ which uses KDE plasma desktop environment if you want it to be a bit more windows-familiar in layout. or alternatively you are able to install different desktop environments at the same time and choose which one you want at log in
https://en.ubunlog.com/how-to-have-m...d-derivatives/ but it is cleaner and takes up way less space just having one option. Explaining Computers youtube channel has a lot of good info on dual booting and introducing people to linux.
keep us posted on your results
