OS selection. Windows 10 or Linux?

Question

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In short, there is a new laptop (HP, 8GB DDR4 RAM, SSD 256GB and HHD 1TB, AMD A12 processor, x64, 4 cores, 2.7 Gg, UEFI).
The question is: what to install windows 10, or linux (ubuntu figurative, debian)?
Criteria:
1) You need to work in two environments (running exe and full-fledged work with Linux). I don’t know what is better than Bash on Windows, or Wine in terms of performance and full-fledged operation of applications without crutches.
2) In connection with the vulnerability of Specter and Meltdown, and most importantly with their "patches", it becomes necessary to cut down these "patches" nafig (performance is the main thing), that is, it is necessary that microcodes not be flashed and the system core be vulnerable and productive, respectively.
3) Since there are 2 disks, both must work. In Linux, I know how to make "/" on the SSD, and "/ home" for example on the HDD, but in Windows how?

Answer 1

1. Any of them, and the second in virtualization (vmware/virtualbox). Host to choose the one in which you have to work more, or the one in which the most resource-intensive applications will run.
It is very likely that linux can be installed for your tasks without a graphical environment at all, in this version, plus perhaps Xming, or even without it ...
Or put them side by side if you do not need to work simultaneously in two environments at once.
2. The devil is not as scary as he is painted - in everyday work, the difference in performance is practically not noticeable, especially on the desktop / note, which are rarely loaded "to the eyeballs". Well, maybe in heavy games you won’t get a few fps, but even there, usually, there’s still not a percent bottleneck.
3. In Windows, the users folder can be easily put on another disk, through the registry, using a symlink, using special programs for this task. As for whether it is possible to somehow do this during installation, I'm not sure - I haven't installed it for a long time. =)

Answer 2

No one can answer your question but you. Put whatever you want.
What you need more, what you like more, the better you own.
You can put both systems at once, you can put one into a virtual machine. You can wine or WSL. The choice is yours.
Who knows what you are going to do at the computer?
Win10 has a Windows subsystem for Linux - there is Ubuntu under the hood (now it seems like not only Ubuntu - there is a choice), only without graphics. It's better than bash for Windows.
In Windows, you can also drag a user profile to another drive without problems. This has been written about here many times.
Of the "debian-like" ones, Ubuntu or linux mint are advised here.

Answer 3

Do Dual Boot. With virtualization and the Linux Subsystem in more or less serious use, half the time will take the invention of a lock of crutches.
Install Windows Pro and Ubuntu, because. these are the most "uncut in functionality" systems and at the same time both are user-friendly.
If Dual Boot confuses - make a flash drive with Ubuntu Persistance (I have enough 32GB) and keep the entire OS on a flash drive (very convenient when you have access to different PCs). Performance does not drop much, but important data should be synchronized with the cloud, because. such a method over time (a couple of years, depending on the number of write cycles to the media) will sand the flash drive.

Answer 4

"Shit, give me two!"
You will need both systems :) I won’t say anything about the usefulness of WSL because I don’t know anything about it (and I don’t strive to find out), but Wine - as it was squalor in 1998, it still remains so. Yes, it can do something simple - for example, launch winbox :) But it fails even in front of Visio 2008 and games of the early 2000s (pirates, with protection torn off). Put Linux on one disk, Windows on the second - only Windows first, and not vice versa! Linux will find Windows and register it in grub, but Windows will not look for anything, it will only load itself.
As for Meltdown - in linux it is disabled by the "nopti nospectre_v2" parameters in the kernel command line, in Windows it's like that, but I don't install updates on it.

Answer 5

Depending on what you need in Linux, have you considered the option with some kind of Virtualbox?
You can put Lin and Windu on one partition, just leave space for a common area that you mount in / home, so as I understand it, you have ssd (install windows) and hdd that can be divided and put on one part of Ubuntu.
the choice of distribution kit depends directly on the tasks, I would recommend either Ubuntu or centOS for them now there is most of the documentation on the network. Although there are docks all over)))) there is still a question where you poke your finger)

Answer 6

Well, I would advise you to put windows and linux in parallel. Although over time, you can safely switch to one of the linux-s.
Of all the distributions, it is worth installing ubuntu.
And if you do not understand the difference between windows and linux, then you should read the article https://it-wide.com/?p=312