07-29-2017, 11:34 PM
What's wrong with choice I outlined above?
Key question in my mind is "How often do you plan on booting into Windows?"
Sounds like you rarely use Windows, so doing mixed-mode install of LL won't cause much inconvenience to you. Just set computer to boot in Legacy mode, use LL as you normally would and on the rare occasions that you want to boot into Windows, go into UEFI settings and change to UEFI mode booting. When done, switch back to Legacy mode so computer automatically starts LL again.
If you plan to frequently switch between OSs, then yes this is cumbersome and will get annoying quickly, (so install Mint); but if you're only going to use Windows once a month it's no big deal.
Key question in my mind is "How often do you plan on booting into Windows?"
Sounds like you rarely use Windows, so doing mixed-mode install of LL won't cause much inconvenience to you. Just set computer to boot in Legacy mode, use LL as you normally would and on the rare occasions that you want to boot into Windows, go into UEFI settings and change to UEFI mode booting. When done, switch back to Legacy mode so computer automatically starts LL again.
If you plan to frequently switch between OSs, then yes this is cumbersome and will get annoying quickly, (so install Mint); but if you're only going to use Windows once a month it's no big deal.
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