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.
7-8 years ago I switched my mother's computer to linux. She never noticed. She said she needed Quicken and I created a virtual machine from her old Windows installation that ran Quicken, but she never used it. She just used the browser which was identical across installs. Windows itself changes so often that people would not notice some minor menu changes. It has probably saved me at least a month of work not having to maintain that. Bill
