How possible is it to have both linux and windows on a system?
Is it possible for me to install both Linux and windows on same laptop? If possible how do I go about it?
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How possible is it to have both linux and windows on a system?
Yes Darren, it is very possible.
The proper term used for this is dual-booting. If your laptop is currently running on a Windows OS, then you can allocate a new partition on your HDD with the help of the Windows Disk Management tool. Then, all you have to do is download an image file of your favourite Linux based OS and make it bootable over a USB flash drive with the help of convenient tool like Rufus.
After you are through with that, change your BIOS settings related to booting management such as by enabling the Legacy support.
Connect your flash drive with your laptop and check out the boot options where you will find that an option is available for booting via the USB flash drive, go for it.
You will enter the new Linux OS where all you have to do is follow the instructions and choose the appropriate partition where you want to install it.
Afterwards, whenever you will boot your PC, you will encounter the GRUB loader depending upon your Linux distro where you will have the options to choose whether you want to boot your Linux based OS or the Windows 10. You can watch some YouTube video on how to go about it, you will understand better.
You can run both on the same system. There’s dual booting that allows you to boot into the desired OS. This will be the best for overall performance of both operating systems. Having both OSs on the system at the same time will not disturb the performance. There’s also the option to install one of the operating systems as the primary OS and run the other virtually. A virtual machine allows running both OSs at the same time. The virtualized machine will not perform as well as if it were running as a physical machine.