• Godort@lemm.ee
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    I am currently dual booting and trying to get feature parity in my Linux install as a reletave newbie.

    So far the largest hurdle I’ve been able to solve was getting my RAID array recognized. That sent me down a rabbit hole.

    To get it working in Linux I needed to:

    • switch from LMDE to Mint proper
    • add a PPA repository
    • install the RAID driver
    • manually edit my grub config file to ignore AHCI
    • run a command to apply the change
    • reboot
    • format the volume

    To get it working in Windows I needed to:

    • format the volume(Windows gave me a popup with a single button to do this on login)
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      8 months ago

      Why have I never thought about this? Dual boot and bit by bit work on feature parity while still having an OS that’s my daily driver.

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        8 months ago

        Beware of the W̷̞̬̍̌͘͜ĭ̴̬̹̟͕̒̆̈́n̸̢̧̙̈́̅̂̆̕͜ͅd̵̟̟̪͎̀̀ő̴̼̺̺́̐̂͘w̵̨͊̀s̵̡͎̭̊ ̸͔̬͔̜̊́̈́̌̈́ͅŬ̴͉͚̳̌̉͘͝p̸̼̅̆͐̃̑d̸̜͂ǎ̵̛̯̏͝ť̷̰é̸͇͝ as it can screw up/overwrite your other bootloader completely.

        Kinda sucks, when you’ve got a meeting/work and you find out that forced update made your system unbootable/partially unbootable and you now get to live boot in and go fixing the EFI partition manually, in the CLI.

        That happened to me once and that’s when I decided feature parity was less important than a reliable system that “just works” for getting things done on a schedule. (I removed windows completely, in case that wasn’t clear)

        Anyhow, make sure you install windows to a separate drive that can’t see any others during the windows install, then will keep the bootloader separate.

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          8 months ago

          I ran into similar issues before. My plan was to install Linux on a separate M.2 so Windows won’t interfere and manually boot the OS I want to manually.

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      8 months ago

      Are you using hardware RAID? yeah, that doesn’t go too well with Linux… works perfectly in Windows though, cuz their softraid solutions are shit.

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        Server-level hardware RAID is fine on Linux. It has to, because manufacturers would cut out a huge chunk of their market if they didn’t. Servers are moving away from that, though, and using filesystems with their own software RAID, like zfs.

        Cheapo built-in consumer motherboard RAID doesn’t work great on Linux, but it’s also hot garbage that’s software RAID with worse performance than the OS implementation could give you. I guess if you’re dual booting, you’d have to do it that way since I don’t think you can share software RAID between Windows and Linux. It’s still not great.