So my advice is to back up your important files, documents, music, movies etc to an external disk or cloud, whichever suits you.

Normally, it’s not a big issue but just in case if you touched wrong partition etc, you may lose data.

Back up your data: You are going to touch disk partitions.

And in this article, we’ll see how to dual boot Linux Mint with Windows 10.īefore we proceed to see the procedure to dual boot Linux Mint with Windows, let me give you some optional yet recommended safety instructions: Absolute beginners often find it complicated but this is the best way to use Linux and Windows together in one system. This involves touching the disk partition and sometimes boot order. And when your system powers up, you can choose if you want to use Windows or Linux. Here, you install Linux on a system that already has Windows.

Install Linux alongside Windows: This method is called dual booting Linux with Windows.

Remove Windows and Linux: If you have backed up your data and have a recovery or installation disk of Windows ready with you or if you are determined that you are not going back to Windows, you can remove Windows completely and use only Linux.

This is particularly useful if you just want to see what Linux feels like.

This is usually slow and your changes done to the Linux system are (normally) not saved. Use a live version of Linux: In this method, you put Linux on a USB or DVD and you boot from it.However, this will utilize your system resources and if you have less than 4Gb of RAM, I won’t advise using it extensively. This is also one of the safest ways to get a feel of Linux. Use Linux inside Windows in a virtual machine: This runs a Linux OS like any other application within Windows.There are a few ways you can start using any Linux based operating system. In this tutorial, we’ll see how to install Linux Mint along side Windows 10.īefore that let me recap you a few things about installing Linux Mint. Using Linux Mint is fairly easy and installing Linux Mint is no rocket science either. Linux Mint is one of the best Linux distributions for beginners. Good decision! And if you chose to use Linux Mint, that’s even a better decision.

Brief: This guide shows you how to dual boot Linux Mint with Windows 10 and enjoy both Linux and Windows together in one system.

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