Just an offhand thought: how hard would it be to get the windows vm to launch on boot, and automatically become fullscreen?
-wes On Fri, Apr 29, 2022 at 3:19 PM Jeff Kirsher <[email protected]> wrote: > Dual booting should not be a problem. I just recently created a dual > boot of Windows 11 and Ubuntu 22.04 without any issue. If you want to > do the dual boot, I would suggest installing Windows first or if the > laptop came with Windows, then you will need to resize the Windows > partition to give room to install Linux. Most Linux distributions > today should be able to handle that type of install. > > Although I like the idea of running Linux and just make Windows a VM, > that way you could still remotely access their system via Linux, while > they play in Windows. I actually did something similar almost 20 > years ago for my mother-in-law, since I did not want to keep running > over to her place to fix her computer. > > On Fri, Apr 29, 2022 at 7:26 AM Richard Owlett <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > I have not used Windows since WinXP and Debian Stretch were current. > > A couple I know (Retired Pastor and his wife) have a Windows computer > > with a years long history of problems. As part of my support for their > > missionary work, I intend to replace the hardware with a refurbished > laptop. > > > > It must run Windows as that is what they know and some software provided > > by the missions agency is designed for Windows. It *will* dual boot > > Linux to make my life simpler and allow testing some ideas that should > > eventually make their life simpler. > > > > *MY QUESTION* > > What should I be reading to install Debian along side Windows that will > > likely have UEFI and possibly Secure Boot? The last time I dual booted > > Linux/Windows it was on a legacy BIOS system. > > > > TIA > > > > > > > -- > Cheers, > Jeff >
