[arch-general] Dual Boot with Windows 10 20H2

[Soham Sen]

I'd consider dual-booting the best option and personally I use this
when Windows is a requirement. Everything works (just follow the wiki
steps) EXCEPT when you try to use a TPM, which is painful to say the
least. If you use normal (or no) disk encryption, then go for it.
TL;DR-
Pros:
- Everything works flawlessly (I mean, as flawless as running only linux)
Cons:
- Secure boot/disk encryption with a TPM is going to be painful.
Without a TPM, there's no issue, though.
- If you are new, there's always a chance you'd mess up the first time
(I remember, during my first Arch installation, I accidentally deleted
the Windows bootloader).

Although I agree, VirtualBox really sucks. If you want to use Arch on
Windows, I'd say try out either Hyper-V (requires Win Pro version) or
VMWare (good features are behind a paywall). If I use Arch on Windows,
I do it without GUI using Hyper-V (although I've never tried Hyper-V's
RDP-like thing), and if I need GUI I just run an X-server on Windows.

Or, you can run Windows as a VM. I don't see any reason (taking into
account your hardware and windows software needs) why this might be a
problem for you.

On Fri, Nov 6, 2020 at 3:32 AM <joerg.jellissen at t-online.de> wrote:
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> I would like to go back to ArchLInux, but i must use windows for most software like a DocumentScanner (Fujitsu Siemens ScanSnap IX500) with OCR Software, ABBY Fine Reader and so on, i have a LabelPrinter (Brother QL800)
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> My Hobby is Photography with my CANON EOS 80D. I use Luminar 4 to edit my pictures. I found another solution called darktable. But only for this.
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> I have a PC created by myself in 2015 with specs
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> CPU:  AMD FX(tm)-4100 Quad-Core Processor               3.60 GHz
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> RAM: 18 GB
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> SSD: Samsung 250GB 840 Pro Series for my OS
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> HDD: WD 2TB as my primary data drive
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> Is it a good choice to install two OS on my system?
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> I like Linux, so i began to learn with Debian 5, with Linux Mint, a little bit Manjaro and for few months ArchLinux.
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> I like ArchLInux.
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> Is it a good choice to do this or is there another option to use both OS.
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> A Windows VM with VirtualBox and Boxes doesn’t work fine ☹ i don’t know why
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> So this is not an option
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> Please can you help me by my brain storming.
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> Many thanks
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