Running Linux on U59

brittmd99

I want to run ubuntu server on this box, what's the best way to accomplish that without removing the Windows installation that came with it in case I want to use it as a windows box later.  I was thinking of replacing the boot disk with a different sata ssd, but was curious what others have done.

Support-03

Hello there,

Do you want dual system ? Please check https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWQMYN12QD0

Incans

Unlike Windows, Linux installations are good at accepting other OSs on the same machine and dual-booting. You do end up losing the disk space occupied by Windows of course.

If you don't end up running Windows subsequently you'll be fine. Windows unfortunately is bad at sharing, and sometimes a Windows update can overwrite the GRUB bootloader used by Linux. As long as the machine has a modern UEFI BIOS with a decent boot sequence manager, it's often just as easy to keep the two OSs ignorant of each other and use the BIOS boot menu to either select a boot partition on the fly, or put your preferred OS at the top of the list for auto-boot.