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After being a Windows user since 1999, and even building a custom Windows PC in 2001, I switched to Linux in early 2009 with OpenSuse (I can’t remember the version number, but it was the last release that had a paid box-set available to purchase from Amazon). I switched to Ubuntu later that year with 10.04 LTS, which I used for quite some time before getting a new Windows 7 laptop in late 2010 – which even got upgraded to Windows 8 Pro and then Windows 8.1 Pro albeit with a brief three-month stint of using Ubuntu again.
In January 2014, I got an Acer C720 Chromebook which was my first encounter with Chrome OS, even though I’d been using Chromium OS from December 27th of 2013. It was my first experience of buying a Laptop that comes with a Linux OS as standard – even though Chrome OS isn’t a true Linux Distribution. I’ve been running it alongside my Toshiba laptop ever since I got it, until May 2, when I decided to dual-boot my Toshiba laptop with Ubuntu 14.04 and Windows 8.1 Pro.
The initial install of Ubuntu 14.04 went well – albeit by using an initial install of Ubuntu 10.10 followed by an Upgrade to 14.04 via the Update Manager. I set up a root partition of 232.9 GB for the Ubuntu install, a home partition of 2229.2 GB for my data, a logical partition of 4.0GB for the Linux swap partition, and the remaining 465.8 GB given over to a single partition for Windows 8.1 Pro.
After I got Ubuntu 14.04 updated, I booted from a Windows 7 Ultimate DVD, installed Windows 7, and then installed Windows 8.1 Pro from a 32GB Samsung SD card. Once I’d got Windows 8.1 Pro installed and set up, I shutdown the Toshiba laptop for the night. Then on May 3, I started up the Toshiba laptop. Instead of being greeted by the usual Grub boot screen with OS selection, I was greeted by the Windows 8 splash screen, and basically a Windows laptop with an unusable set of Ubuntu 14.04 partitions.
After downloading the Ubuntu 15.04 64-bit ISO from the Ubuntu website, and the USB Media creation tool that the Ubuntu site links to, I created a USB installer for Ubuntu 15.04 and Upgrade installed Ubuntu 15.04 onto the Ubuntu root partition. I’m now left with a fully functioning Ubuntu/Windows dual-boot laptop.
After the trouble of getting a Windows/Linux dual-boot system running, in hindsight I might have been better off installing Windows first, and setting up the Windows and Linux partitions from within the Windows installer, and then installing Ubuntu second – to ensure that everything worked correctly when done. However, this is the first time that I’ve run a dual-boot Windows/Linux system and my only previous dual-boot setup was with Windows 8.1 Pro/Windows 10 Technical Preview.
After learning something new about how to set up a dual-boot Windows/Linux system, I’m now looking forward to using Ubuntu again, and it might even be the kick I need to actually start producing content for my YouTube Channel as there are plenty of professional quality video editors for Linux that might work better on the hardware of the laptop than what Adobe Premier Pro does in Windows. Using the YouTube Capture App for IOS is pretty basic and OK for stitching together several clips. However, using the YouTube Creator Studio from within the YouTube website isn’t as powerful as proper editing on a computer and then uploading to YouTube.