• I wonder what percent of Linux users dual boot. I don’t think I ever have I’m just remembering getting a laptop from an employer and going through the effort of partitioning the disk drive down to a bare minimum for Windows and setting up dual boot - I don’t remember actually booting into the Windows side more than a couple of times. This would have been over a decade ago. Either I’ve had a Windows-only machine supplied by my employer, which I wasn’t allowed to mess with at that level; or I’ve had a Linux machine. Even the computers I’ve bought that came with Windows pre-installed, I haven’t even booted into Windows before wiping the storage and installing Linux.

    I’m not some sort of purist; Windows just makes me angry when I use it - I’ve just always found it a frustrating experience, so I’ve never bothered with dual booting.

    It makes me wonder what the distribution is. Are the majority of Linux users dual-booters?

    • Confetti Camouflage@pawb.social
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      6 months ago

      I have a number of IRL friends who daily drive Linux and we all at least have some small partition or drive installed with Windows on it just in case for that one program. I haven’t used it in over half a year and it was for some Need For Speed Underground 2 mod making tool that I used once and never needed again.