How to put Windows 10 and Linux Ubuntu on a laptop with HDD+SSD?

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In general, there is a new laptop with 1TB HDD and 128GB SSD. I want to install Windows 10 and Linux Ubuntu, since both operating systems are needed (I mainly work on Linux, but I can’t refuse Windows, there are some irreplaceable programs, and sometimes I want to play) With Wine, everything doesn’t always work as it should) I wanted to to put Windows on the SDD (64GB system disk) and Linux on the rest, and leave the HDD for media files (partition it on a local disk under Windows and mount / home for Linux.) Is it possible to do this and is it worth it (will there be any significant losses in performance), and also what are the pitfalls here? Prior to that, I had nothing to do with SSD at all, not to mention a laptop with SSD and HDD.

Answer 1

Install both systems unequivocally on SSD
First, be sure to install Windows and only after Ubuntu
Otherwise, there is no difference, except that 64GB for windows will be enough for you only if you don’t put anything on it

Answer 2

Is it possible to do this and is it worth it (will there be any significant performance losses), as well as what pitfalls are there?

Of course you can shove.
But of course you shouldn't do that.
Only one system can be installed on 128GB - it will take about half of the disk, the second will remain free.
If you cram two OSes in there, you won’t have any free space left there.
Firstly, the system partition is a place where something is always written and deleted - logs, temporary files, so there must be a supply of free space.
Secondly - SSD can not be hammered to the eyeballs if you want it to work normally.
In general, you can put Windows 10 on a 128GB disk, provided that there are no heavy programs, if it is not an office computer and more difficult tasks and a lot of software are planned, then at least 250GB.
In general, for two, take 500GB

Answer 3

I have the same memory configuration in my laptop and also recently installed a dual windows + ubuntu system. Do you already have windows 10 from the store? If yes, then there are 2 options:
1) demolish 10-ku, partition the disk and install 10-ku first, then ubuntu, the easiest way, but you will have to demolish the service partitions, on which, depending on the manufacturer, there may be various features ala System Restore. (I have lenovo and on one of the partitions there is a proprietary feature for restoring by pressing a button on the case, an analogue of resetting settings in routers), which are not the fact that they will start up with clean windows 10, not "from the factory".
2) cut off a piece from the existing windows partition (I work with the web and took about 30 gigs for ubuntu, with the idea that if there is not enough space I will transfer some of the projects to the hard drive, and 500 mb to the system partition), everything is not there so simple, you will need to turn off the paging file, turn off hibernation, restart, and only then (at least for me) the system gave a bite of the desired size, and then only from 5-6 times. And there is an opinion that it will not bite off more than 30-40%, keep in mind (moreover, windows was clean, just installed). After that a standard ubuntu installation.
I myself set it according to option 2, but there was one unpleasant moment with the fact that windows began to die, either disabling and enabling swap had an effect, or it stored something else at the end of its partition, which I bit off, in any case, the reset helped installation with saving files, I hope you don't need it.
As for memory, I don’t agree with the commentators, it’s a purely personal matter, my windows ate 30 gigs after installation with drivers and the remaining 50 gigabytes is enough for my eyes, provided that I don’t store multimedia on the system partition. On ubuntu, it is similar, there is only working software and on top it is enough for not very capacious projects, and if anything there is always a hard drive.
By the way, I strongly advise you to start playing with ubuntu from the drive, if there is no official support from the manufacturer for this laptop for linux, there may well be problems with hardware (most often with wi-fi adapters).

Answer 4

Put! Everything works with a bang. First, I installed Windows, allocated 80GB SSD to the system disk and 600GB to the media disk from under the HDD. On the remaining 40GB of the SSD, Ubuntu installed the system partition (label "/"), and allocated the remaining 400GB from the HDD to the home partition. The Swap section did not create. As far as I know, in Ubuntu, starting from version 17.04, a swap file is used instead of a swap partition (as in Windows).

Answer 5

Windows 7 + Debian 10 on SSD, partitions with user data on HDD. /home/nihi1istand D:\Users\nihi1istrespectively.