New Laptop, Should I dual boot it?

Hey Guys,

So I got another laptop today to use as a portable one (caryying my Envy 17 everywhere is not fun). Its an acer aspire, AMD Quad Core CPU @2.6Ghz, 8GB RAM, 750GB HDD etc and has AMD Graphics of course.

My question is, who thinks I should dual boot it with Ubuntu, Linux Mint or Debian?

Im cautious about it mainly because Linux + AMD Graphics is a bit of fun at time …

My old laptop was a Core i3 and a AMD Mobility Radeon it had a few quarks, but it worked in general (except with OBS).

I would do it if you need both operating system, I personally use linux but sometime i have to work with windows program because of team project…

I replace the dvd of my laptop with a Hard Drive Hdd Caddy Adapter like this one , so i can reinstall them without issues. I would consider a ssd for laptop, cause hdd make laptop really slow and now they are really cheap especially in us…

Thanks for the ideas Jolejo8,

already have SSD’s in most of my main machines Including my main laptop (HP Envy 17 with an i7) However I purchased this laptop jut for its portability and as much as I would love to buy a SSD for it It doesn’t fit my price range currently. I have Windows 8.1 Pro installed currently (My preferred OS of choice) and it runs really nice, Im now trying to decide if I want / need Linux on here.

Other thing is that I need Windows on here for things like Photoshop, Lightroom, Word and Outlook all of which I use at work.

Fr0zen wrote:

i cannot boot to any device that is not UEFI compliant

I’ve never see a laptop that i couldn’t be reinstall with window/linux, normaly you can disactive secure boot in the bios?? @Fr0zen

Ok well i can admit when I’m wrong, UEFI will boot non UEFI devices. But some issues needed to be fixed in the BIOS. In order for this to work i had to edit the boot order in BIOS to have the device boot before the windows loader.

With just the secure boot disabled it did not work on non UEFI devices.

With UEFI compliant devices i did not have to edit the boot order in the BIOS.