On Wednesday, 4 September 2024 18:47:25 -04 Charles Curley wrote: > On Wed, 4 Sep 2024 17:04:33 -0500 > > Tom Browder <tom.brow...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I am torn with whether dual boot is the way to go, given all the > > problems I see with dual boot with Windows now. (I finally dumped > > Windows entirely some months ago when I found a decent, modern > > replacement for Microsoft Word and for the H&R Block US Federal tax > > program). > > I've never had a problem with dual booting both Windows and Linux, and > I started doing that in the 1990s. Install Windows first. It will hog > the entire drive, so the next step is to shrink its partition to > something reasonable. The Windows rescue partition is usually at the > end of the disk; you can leave it there. Then install Linux on the > newly freed up space. > > I find a 256GB SSD suitable for me; for your purpose a 128 GB drive > should do it. > > What did you replace the H&R Block program with?
Hi Tom, I shy away from HP Laptops since the time they still were COMPAQs. I once was given a HP Laptop for free and it is only doing its job now as an OpenBSD terminal with RS232 connections to several other boxes. I preferred buying refurbished pro LENOVOs which are more likely to have hardware which works fine with both Linux and OpenBSD and is inexpensive. My last purchase of a Laptop was a TUXEDO with Ubuntu KDE preinstalled. All devices are guaranteed to work and they do. But that does not fit into you requirement of "inexpesive" I guess. O, and it hosts two virtual machines with Win10home and Win11pro which also are working flawlessly. I wish you success -- Eike Lantzsch KY4PZ / ZP5CGE
