Just use the regular Ubuntu or a Fedora distro. These have the secure boot system in place to coexist with windows with zero headaches using a UEFI shim key signed by m$ through a 3rd party program m$ offers primary major distro packagers. These Twp options just work. Otherwise you must sign and replace your own keys for secure boot. There is good documentation available via PDF from the US government that goes into all the details of what to do and why at all different levels.
If you boot any distro that has a valid SB key and under secure boot UEFI will delete any unsigned bootable code as it is designed to do. This system works before init, so it is not a part of Linux or Windows. Neither of these OS's is at fault in almost any instance, despite people complaining regularly. They simply do not understand SB and UEFI. Do not follow some random tutorial on YT either. People say the dumbest things in this space, and there is a ton of misinformation. I can tell you quite a bit about it in depth. Worst case scenario, you can use a tool called Keytool to boot your computer directly into the UEFI system and manually change your keys of the hardware manufacturer did not do a full SB manual keys replacement implementation. Gentoo has some documentation on Keytool, but assumes a very high level of competency. The easy way, as mentioned, is simply to stick to any Fedora distro that uses the Anaconda pre-init system (all of them) or use Ubuntu.
I haven't tested Ubuntu's Nvidia driver implementation, but Fedora's is flawless so far over the last year I've been using it.
Linux people generally use adblockers so I somewhat doubt all these analytics websites that don't have a methodology that wouldn't be blocked by adblockers listed
I dual boot Windows 10 and Ubuntu, it was super easy to do years ago with a YouTube walkthrough, I'm sure there are even better ones now.
I'd recommend just finding one that makes sense to you and following that step by step, it's a very straightforward process.
I'm not sure about secure boot, I had to disable mine.
I have a single SSD drive and have had zero problems switching between Windows and Linux for years.
Backing up your hard drive is the only precaution you need that I know about.
I can access Windows from my Lennox installation, and have transferred files from Windows to Linux, and I haven't seen any problems. So anecdotally, I don't think you'll have any trouble with them being on the same drive.
If this is your first time installing Linux, keep it simple.
what partitions do linux distros need to function ?
One is enough for Linux alone. Two if you want to dual boot (one for Windows, another for Linux). Everything else is optional.
what linux distros support secure boot with nvidia drivers ?
I don't have a full list, but I'm reasonably certain that Linux Mint supports secure boot UEFI, and I'm sure that it supports NVidia drivers.
Note that you can disable secure boot to run other distros if necessary/desired.
is it bad idea to install linux on a single drive in its own partition ?
As in, single boot? It's only a bad idea if you need Windows for some reason. But then you could run Windows from a virtual machine, as the other poster said.
I have heard some linux distros like linux mint and ubuntu have a habit of touching other efi partitions when being told not to, are there any other distros that do that ?
I'm really unsure if this actually happens; I've dual booted Windows with Ubuntu for years, and to my knowledge Ubuntu never touched the Windows partition without my permission.
Plus if this happened I bet that a lot of people would be raging.
Is there anything else I should be aware about ?
Don't look for exact copies of the software that you typically use with Windows. Instead, look for software that fills the same purpose.
When possible, let your distribution install software for you, through its own package manager. Downloading and running random executables from the internet is a last resort.
The Arch wiki is a godsend even if you don't use Arch. (I don't use Arch BTW.)
When asking people for help, make sure to include which distro you're running, and which version.
Just out of curiosity, why not just go full Linux and use a Windows VM? Using a debloater (this is my favorite: https://github.com/Raphire/Win11Debloat) makes the windows VM run very well. Plus you limit the extent Microsoft is able analyze and track you. Additionally, this also works around the VPN connection issue currently on going with Windows.
How much of this is regular people just not buying new computers anymore?
A lot of households that used to have had a laptop for each person have replaced those devices with phones and tablets. They weren't using Linux, so by removing them Linux market share would go up even if it hasn't actually grown.
I think the argument is that as less people have desktops and laptops, the only people left will be more technical (otherwise they'd just use a phone or tablet). The more technical people are also likely to use Linux. So as non-technical people move to tablets and phones, technical people make up a larger share of laptop/desktop users.
Just a reminder to take the data in that site with a grain of salt. I used to share them a lot, but then decided to read more about their methodology, and turns out it's mostly a black box, so they may be subject to several kinds of biases, and we can't even know. For example, we don't know which sites use their analytics and if there's a geographical bias. We also don't know how their scripts work and how the data is collected from devices. It would be nice if we had more sources of marketshare data to compare
Technically, yes. Practically, it's complicated. It doesn't really exist within the same ecosystem as other Linux distros.
It's not as different as Android (which is also technically a Linux distribution), but running a normal DE and all the programs that come with it is very clearly still an advanced user thing locked behind knowledge of how bash and virtual environments work.
Don't want to use ubuntu as I've heard it amd linux mint has a habit of touching other EFI partitions even when being told not to but ill have a look at the individual software mentioned
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