How to Dual Boot Windows 11 & Linux Mint: Step by Step Guide

so you want to run Windows and Linux well you could dual boot Windows and Linux and in today's video I'm going to show you how to dual boot Linux Mint and windows [Music] [Music] 11 hello and welcome back to learn Linux TV recently I reviewed the latest version of Linux Min I thought it was pretty cool and I had a lot of fun with it but then I realized it's been quite some time since I've done a Linux Mint and windows dual boot video so here we are and that's the project that we're going to be working on today I'm going to show you everything that you need to know to dual boot Windows 11 and Linux Min and by the end of this video you will have a dual boot that set up and ready to go now I'm going to assume that you've already backed up your computer I don't expect that you're going to run into any problems when it comes to dual booting these two platforms but you never know sometimes Chaos Theory comes into play and you might lose some data so I recommend that you back up your hard drive and you also have a means of reinstalling Windows if you need to do that again I don't have any reason to believe that you're going to run into any problems but you never know again Computing and Chaos Theory now one last thing before we get started I need to take a moment and mention the sponsor for today's video and that sponsor is cendo the makers of thin link thin link is a remote desktop solution that enables you to access a Linux desktop from anywhere thin L can be used in a setup for one or a few users but it can also support thousands of users in Enterprise environments providing remote access to high demanding openg applications running on a centralized server thin link is easy to set up and the performance is great in fact thin link includes admin tools for system administrators to make managing this product even easier part of what makes thin link awesome is that it combines the best open source components out there to provide a pure Linux experience but it's not just 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Linux Mint installation media to do that you could go to the URL that you see see on the screen right now and that'll take you to the download page for Linux Min once there you'll download the iso image for the latest release and then from there you'll use that to create the installation media once you have it downloaded the next step is to download something like USB imager and with USB imager you could take an ISO image like the one that we've just downloaded and use that to write the entire ISO image to the flash drive thereby making it installation media once you have the installation media created the next thing you'll do is boot your computer with that installation media process varies from computer to computer it could be F12 that's a very likely button that'll activate the boot menu on your computer but you can always consult the documentation for your computer if you want to be sure which button you should press at startup to activate the boot selection mode once you do you should see the flash drive there as a boot option and then we'll boot into Linux Mint and we'll boot into live mode if you didn't already know live mode allows us to demo the distribution before we install it essentially it runs the Distribution off the flash drive now in this mode it might run a little slower than it would run if you installed it on real Hardware but it does give you a chance to test the release with your Hardware before you install it so we should make sure that things like Wi-Fi web browsing Audio dual displays maybe printers or whatever else you have that you want to work we should make sure that all of that works before we go to install it once you've had some time to play around with live mode we can go ahead and start the process and here we have my windows 11 desktop I've just inserted my Linux Mint installation media I should be ready to go what I'll do is restart it right now and I'll reboot into the installation media for Linux Min and here we are we see the Linux Mint desktop just like I mentioned earlier this is live mode so feel free to test out Linux Mint on your hard Hardware but if you're ready to go then I'm ready to go so let's do it right here on the desktop we have an install Linux Mint icon so I'll double click on that and that brings up the installer the first screen here will let us choose an alternative language for the installer if we want to do that I'm going to leave mine on the default and I'll click continue the next screen will allow us to choose our keyboard layout we could also leave this at the default if we'd like to do that but go ahead and choose a different keyboard layout if you do have a different keyboard you could go ahead and test your keyboard by typing into this box and once you know that your keyboard is working we can click continue next it's asking us if we want to install multimedia codec now the thing is I recommend that everybody check this box right here quite a few different media formats are supported out of the box here a few aren't that you might run into so I see no reason not to check this box just in case you do run into something later that needs needs a codec in order to play you could avoid any headache and have this set up ahead of time anyway let's continue now you might see this screen right here that's asking if you'd like to unmount partitions that are in use the reason why this comes up is because anytime you boot Linux Mint it's going to at least try to mount any hard drives that you have attached to the computer and that may include hard drives that you want to install Linux Min onto so what this is going to do if we choose yes is make sure that no partition is in use by anything else so that way the installer has full access there's no reason to say no here so I'll click yes and next we've come to a very important screen we get to choose our installation type now the thing is you don't want to choose this option right here erase dis and install Linux Mint if you do it will do exactly as it says it'll erase your disc and install Linux Mint meaning it's going to wipe out windows completely so that's not what we want when it comes to this tutorial so what we want to do is make sure that we choose install Linux Mint alongside Windows boot manager which is going to trigger the installer to give us a chance to set up a dual booth now we could choose something else and do an advanced installation but I'm going to keep it simple in this video we're going to leave it at this option here and we'll click continue now this is another important screen what we want to do is choose the hard drive we want to install Linux Mint onto if you have more than one if you do want to set up Linux Mint on its own hard drive you could choose that hard drive up here in the drop down but in my case I only have this one hard drive anyway so it doesn't really matter the next thing you're going to do is decide how much space you want to give windows and how much space you want to give Linux Min Now by default it's going to split the hard drive in half more or less it's not going to be exact but close enough now this side of the rectangle here corresponds to Windows while the right hand side corresponds to Linux Mint now what we could do do here is move the mouse cursor here to the dividing line and we could drag it left or right to choose how much space we want to give windows and how much space we want to give Linux Min to decide how much space to give one or the other just think about how much you plan on saving if you plan on installing a lot of applications and saving a lot of files you'll want to give one more than the other you definitely want to make sure that you leave room for growth so don't crank this all the way to the left and give Windows barely anything you need to make sure that Windows has some room to grow gr CU it will grow over time but you also want enough space for Linux Mint as well so I'll leave this up to you whenever we've dragged this line to the appropriate place we could click install now to get the installation started which does mean we're going to wipe out the hard drive so pretty soon we're going to pass the point of no return so I'll click install now I'll click continue it's going to give us a little warning here and if I click continue then we are at the point of no return so I'll click continue let's do it so it's installing in the background but we have a few more things that we could choose here to set up the first is going to ask us to set up our location and what that's going to do is make sure that the clock is set appropriately that our language is set appropriately our local settings basically so what you'll want to do is get this red dot as close as you can to your location it doesn't have to be exact but it does have to be in the pH of the time zone that you reside in in my case right here it says 627 which is wrong it's not 627 it's 127 so by choosing the time zone that should also correct the time as well anyway I'll click continue and we can see immediately that the time did correct itself right here and this is correct you'll have to take my word for it but it is currently 1:27 p.m. as of recording time here what we're going to do is set up our user information so we'll type in our name up here at the top this is for the primary user account I'll simplify my computer name down to just ThinkPad I think that's good enough now it's telling me there's already a computer with this name on the network that's only because I am reinstalling the operating system on this computer and my firewall still has a dccp lease for this computer which is how it knows that this name is already on the network but only this one machine is going to be called this so it doesn't really matter in my case if you're curious the computer name is the name that you'll see if you browse the network to share files or something like that so whatever you name your machine is how it's going to show up for other people may not matter for some of you but I just wanted to point that out anyway we'll set up a strong password here and we should be good to go now you can encrypt your home folder if you want to now whether or not you do that is up to you I'm not going to do that on my end if you do check this box that means your home folder the folder where all of your files are going to be stored will be completely unreadable until you log into Linux so if that's something that you want to set up then go ahead you could also choose to log in automatically if you want that I don't really recommend that we definitely want to be prompted for a password so we don't get unauthorized access so I'll leave mine on the middle option here to require a password and then I'll click continue what I'll do is let this finish and then I'll be right back and there we go it looks like installation of Linux Mint is all set all right everyone Moment of Truth what I'm going to do right now is reboot the computer first I'll boot it into windows and then I'll boot it into Linux Mint I want to make sure that both operating systems are fully functional before I call this project a success so let's reboot and see how it turned out and here we go here's what the boot selection screen looks like and this is the screen that you should see if everything was successful now the very first option is going to be the one that's chosen by default so if I was to let this boot without changing anything or making a different selection then Linux Mint is what I would get but what I want to do instead is just boot into Windows 11 we'll make sure that works so I'll press enter and take a look at that here we have the windows login screen that's a good sign and there we go Windows works just fine now if you're curious what I'm going to do is just open Windows Explorer here let's go to this PC and we can right click on the hard drive go to properties we can see that I have plenty of space when it comes to Windows the window side of the hard drive if you will but anyway it looks like everything was successful at least in terms of windows so what I'll do is reboot yet again and this time I'm not going to choose anything I'm going to let it boot into Linux Mint let's see if that works and check this out we have a successful Linux Mint installation on the same hard drive as Windows 11 so you know what if I didn't know any better I would say that our project to dual boot Linux Mint and windows 11 was a complete success and there we go in this video we set up a brand new dual boot between Linux and windows and I hope you enjoy it if you did find this video useful then please click that like button to let YouTube know how helpful this video was to you also consider sharing this video on your favorite social media platform I'd really appreciate it anyway with this video out of the way I have a bunch more videos coming that I'm editing right now that I can't wait for you guys to see so be 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Length: 14min 11sec (851 seconds)

Published: Mon Feb 26 2024