I’m looking to finally use Linux properly and I’m planning to dual boot my laptop. There’s enough storage to go around, and while I’m comfortable messing around I’d rather not have to run and buy a new device before school while fixing my current one.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VaIgbTOvAd0
This was the general guide I was planning to follow, just with KDE Plasma (or another KDE). I was going to keep windows the default, and boot into Linux as needed when I had time to learn and practice.
I assume it should be the near similar process for KDE Plasma?
I’m ok with things going wrong with the Linux install, but I’d like to keep the Windows install as safe as possible.
Unless you have a reason to keep Windows, for example some software you depend on that doesn’t run under Linux, just get rid of windows. There’s no real reason to keep it around if you don’t need it for a particular reason.
It’s hard to predict when a course will require some software that’s windows only. Either that or support (from TAs and profs) will be specific to Mac & Windows.
Thought a good compromise might be to keep it
Since he’s asking he probably has a reason.
The reason is most likely the same as it was for most Linux newcomers. They’ve used Windows for a long time, and aren’t to the point where they are comfortable enough to cut Windows off entirely.