What you need to know before installing Linux next to Windows8?

Question

linux

1) Mint or Ubuntu?
2) What can go wrong on a Vaio with Windows 8 preinstalled?
3) What could possibly go wrong?
4) How much memory is needed? What about installation time?

Answer 1

you need to know the essentials. You can't work on two axes at the same time! and meaning with such a load tends to zero. in the age of virtualization, this is stupid

Answer 2

1) mint. (in ubuntu it's not the same anymore)
2) "Everything will be as it should, even if it's the other way around" (c)
3) I think you need to carefully work with partitions, both during preparation and during installation. The main Recavery section is not formatted (so that you can always return everything to the factory settings), but although you can get out of this situation ...
4.) The rest is written here. lifehacker.ru/2013/07/04/kak-ustanovit-ubuntu-na-v...

Answer 3

1. In the BIOS for 8, you set legacy boot and then, when booting from a boot-flash with ubuntu, when you "try",
allocate the space you need on the disk (for example, D, and for example 50 GB) from the end of the disk using
gnuparted, (press super keys, then gp). The grab will load you by default in ubuntu,
and for Windows you will press the arrow ...
2. Each session you work in one OS
3. If you leave Windows, then something is wrong, you need to put Windows first, and then Linux otherwise Windows ,
will not see anything and will "spoil" everything