Dual-booting once reigned supreme, but virtual machines have taken the crown with their isolation, security, and convenience.

Ubuntu and other Linux distributions make dual booting easy, once certain configuration issues are addressed. Dual booting requires that space be made on the hard ...

Dual-boot, VMs, and WSL2 walk into a Windows ...

Microsoft has finally fixed a nine-month old bug that would not let Windows 11 PCs dual boot with Linux. It is known that Patch Tuesday updates can often lead to big issues and something just like ...

I must confess, that I try not to run Windows any more than absolutely necessary. But for many reasons, it is occasionally necessary. In particular, I have had several laptops that are finicky with ...

According to user reports following this month's Patch Tuesday, the August 2024 Windows security updates are breaking dual boot on some Linux systems with Secure Boot enabled. This issue is caused by ...

So I'm looking to ease my main family desktop off of W11 over to Fedora KDE. There are a few things in Windows I need to make sure transition over, like the Plex server for one (files are on a ...

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A Windows Patch Tuesday update that was supposed to fix a vulnerability has caused a number of dual-boot Windows-Linus PCs to no longer boot up in Linux. Microsoft has yet to fix this problem. Last ...

Red Hat, Canonical and the Linux Foundation want hardware vendors to ship Windows 8 machines in a setup mode that will make it easier to install Linux alongside of or instead of Windows 8. The ...

I must confess, that I try not to run Windows any more than absolutely necessary. But for many reasons, it is occasionally necessary. In particular, I have had several laptops that are finicky with ...

Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor for Ziff-Davis' Computer Select, back when CDs were new-fangled, and IBM's PC XT was wowing the crowds at Comdex. He spent more ...