Partitioning your hard drive is part of the process and could affect your current data. Make sure to back up your system completely before you begin. Depending on the arrangement, you may need to ...

Dual-booting your favorite operating systems is an old practice. It gives you complete access to the underlying hardware, and you can run both operating systems in their full glory. I dual-booted ...

Dual‑booting Windows and Linux lets one machine run both OSes natively. This offers flexibility, hardware access and a cost‑effective way to use the best tools from each platform. A standard ...

A Secure Boot update wasn’t supposed to hit dual-boot machines, but it’s now preventing some Linux installs from booting. A Secure Boot update wasn’t supposed to hit dual-boot machines, but it’s now ...

Ayush Pande is a PC hardware and gaming writer. When he's not working on a new article, you can find him with his head stuck inside a PC or tinkering with a server operating system. Besides computing, ...

WSL is now responsible for my Linux misadventures ...

In the realm of computing, the choice between operating systems often feels like a crossroads. Each path—Windows with its widespread application support and user-friendly interface, and Linux with its ...

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 ...

The update was issued to resolve a vulnerability that allowed bad actors to bypass Secure Boot (which is there to prevent malicious firmware from being loaded during the boot process). To achieve this ...

Over the years, I have suggested leaving Windows for Linux many times, with some readers saying I sound like a broken record. In hindsight, however, that was arguably a foolish thing to suggest (in ...