Comments on: How to Dual Boot Linux Mint 21 alongside Windows 11

By: Simon

Simon — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 20:04:46 +0000

So many partitions…. in addition to the partitions created by Win 10 the laptop I’m using at the moment has just two partitions for linux 20 – swap and everything else – the home and boot are in the same partition, and I do not have an efi partition.

TPM is disabled in the bios.

Thanks for the guide.

By: Sikora

Sikora — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 16:46:14 +0000

In reply to Björn Wahlström. use linux distro with sb support, like open suse, or reinstall win11 using bootable usb created with rufus and distable that reqiurement while creating that bootable stick. then install that windows, distable secure boot, and then install linux

By: Ola Johansson

Ola Johansson — Sun, 16 Jul 2023 12:54:15 +0000

In reply to Andrew. It's probably easier to keep Linux from writing stuff where it shouldn't, all over the Windows partition, than keeping M$ from putting its nose where it doesn't belong when that's installing itself after you've put Linux in place.

By: Benoit Racine

Benoit Racine — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 22:06:09 +0000

After many years of installing Linux on various Win10 computers without problems, I recently came with installs that did not show Grub. This tutorial showed me a way that worked perfect for dual boot. Thank you.

By: Björn Wahlström

Björn Wahlström — Wed, 31 May 2023 06:51:32 +0000

How to handle the Secure Boot issue of the Windows 11 system?

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 20:18:19 +0000

I used 12000 for my / folder and after install and updating, I was almost out of space. I’m reinstalling now with 30gb.

By: Jurgen Lamsens

Jurgen Lamsens — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 16:01:25 +0000

In reply to James Kiarie.

You say “Linux Mint will easily detect/identify Windows first”. Then why, in Step6, Linux Mint 21 did _not_ detect the presence of “Microsoft Windows 11”. Why is that?
It should state “This computer currently has Windows Boot Manager on it. What would you like to do?” followed by – amongst others – “Install Linux Mint alongside Windows Boot Manager”.

Also, the grub menu lists “Windows recovery environment (on /dev/sda1)” instead of “Windows Boot Manager” (on /dev/sda1).

It does work, but this does not feel right.

By: Scott Gilson

Scott Gilson — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 19:15:16 +0000

Thanks James for a detailed and thorough tutorial. This solved my problem of not being able to install Mint on my new Dell 3511/3520 without damaging the Win 11 installation. I was unable to install Mint 20.3 due to some missing drivers that prevented Wi-Fi access. Also, I found I had to turn off disk encryption (or BitLocker on Pro edition) in the BIOS prior to Mint installation. And that using the partition resize bar in the installer killed Win11. Also found I had to use the exact sizes you recommend for each of the partitions. Sizing the /home partition last is best, that way I could use all the available free space for my Mint install (move over, Win 11!!)

By: James Kiarie

James Kiarie — Sat, 22 Oct 2022 23:27:01 +0000

In reply to Andrew. Hey Andrew, we will look into that later. However, generally, it's much easier to install Windows first and then Linux later as the bootloader will easily detect and identify the Windows OS and display its option on the GRUB menu.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 04:27:32 +0000

How about the other way around? Installing windows 11 after linux mint? Then dual booting?
Lets have an article on that please.