I want to have a dual-boot laptop where half is Windows and half is Debian. If i encrypt Debian during installation, will it break Windows? I just want to be safe. Thanks in advance

  • _thebrain_@sh.itjust.works
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    16 hours ago

    I got tired of windows updates breaking my dual boot. After some research I found that it’s possible to have two uefi partitions: one for windows and one for Linux. It’s not standard but there is nothing expressly written into the efi spec that prohibits it. And it just works. My bios doesn’t care, and works with them both just fine.

    I only use Windows for that 1% of business stuff I can’t accomplish in a vm under windows. Invariably after I boot into widows once ever 3 months it installs so.e update and would kill my ability to boot into Linux. Since setting up 2 partitions I haven’t had this problem.

    • Eyedust@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      7·
      16 hours ago

      Hopefully the day comes soon when we can just leave Windows behind altogether. I wouldn’t be surprised if they ruin dualboot on purpose with every update.

      • _thebrain_@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        8 hours ago

        My company uses a VPN where the client is so slow inside the VM it is functionally useless. 99%of the time I can still get away with it because my connection amounts to a couple of telnet sessions, but when I actually need data or a spreadsheet or something transferred local, I need to fire up windows directly to snag it.

        Sonicwall has a VPN client that will run fine on Linux (or so they say), but the company won’t switch over to it. And sonicwall considers the windows only version eol and won’t add a Linux version

      • jamescrakemerani@feddit.ukEnglish
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        11 hours ago

        One example I have is the university breaking their VPN on Linux. They moved us from an open source VPN to some proprietary crap but I found an open source client that worked on Linux. Then they did something on the config that broke that client, and IT told me to use the proprietary client instead. But the proprietary client crashes if you even so much move the window slightly. So I gave up, and just use my Windows partition instead.

        Stuff like this is why my Windows partition still exists. I’ve also thought about getting a cheap Mac Mini for this sort of thing, and for dealing with the MS Office suite when the web version craps out (as it often does).