I write to you from a freshly assembled Framework 13 laptop.
It’s been a minute since I’ve had to dual boot anything, but I now need to use Adobe products at my new job starting in Feb. While I had 64GB of ram in this thing, I would like to have a native Windows partition.
The plan is to have a shared partition between the EnOS and Win partitions formatted in NTFS.
Advice I seek: If I have started this drive with an Endeavour installation, how do I best go about editing/resizing it for a Windows 11 install?
I mean, I guess I could go in reverse and install Windows first then EndeavourOS after, but I’ve started with the opposite, so there we are.
I understand many hesitations to answering this question when we’re all here about Linux, but I’m a bit stumped. I appreciate your time and attention.
My advice is not to dual boot. Windoze is malware, and it will compromise the security of your Linux system.
If you are working at a company and need Adobe software because you’re collaborating in a team, your company should provide you with a laptop and software licences so you can do your job. You should not accept a scenario in which you bring your personal computer to work. No serious company will ask this of its employees (or even allow it), so this should be a huge red flag.
If you are a freelancer, you can typically choose which software you use, so don’t use Adobe crap.
Yes, I wish I could avoid using Adobe products on the whole, but that unfortunately is not the case. I wish my situation were different where I didn’t have to use them; the company has purchased this laptop for me, but let me do what I want with it (the company is not at all in the tech space.)
while I think, for your line of work, Quark is 5000X better than crappy InDesign, but that, too is Win-only application.
I wish I could tell you foss Scribus is the answer. Depends on exactly what you do for a living that needs adobe suite–and I’m not asking–but it’s worth an install to see if you can use it. it’s probably in repo via pacman but if it’s not it’s AUR.
I’m serious though. If you can run WIN on an external drive or pay the $$ for another SSD. there’s no way in hell I would have linux and WIn on the same disk. Nothing good will come of it. you have options.
2 cents
Even if you use a physically different disk, windoze can still read (and write to) your Linux drives. Since it is 𝖆𝖇𝖘𝖔𝖑𝖚𝖙𝖊𝖑𝖞 𝖕𝖗𝖔𝖕𝖗𝖎𝖊𝖙𝖆𝖗𝖞, you have no idea what it does. It could do anything it wants, install malware, modify your kernels, give itself root permission, anything. I’m not saying that it does that, just that it can do it, and neither you nor me have a foggiest idea what it actually does.
None of the companies, or institutions I worked for were like that. They either allowed me to use whatever software I want to get the job done (in which case I would only use Free Software), or they provided me with a laptop with all the proprietary software and licences they wanted me to use. At least where I live, any company that requires an employee to provide his or her own PC with proprietary software can be liable if an employee uses unlicensed software. And I would be the first to push this to its limit.
Besides, a company that doesn’t provide me with the tools I need to do my job does not deserve me as an employee. Either I’m a freelancer, in which case, I can work for multiple customers, or I’m provided with the tools I need and I have an exclusive contract.
I have to luxury of A) a desktop and B) separate drives where WIN is unplugged from the mobo until update time. I know what it does to Linux when they are apart, too.
***Irony is Endeavour and Solus could not handle Webex duties and I had to dust it off as a plan C for a business meeting this summer. I will reluctantly tell you I’m glad I kept it…
that said ever read their EULA? they are transparent: we keylog everything even if you shut cortana off. and we send to to HQ. Every picture, every file on your computer gets sent back to HQ in Washington state. Even if you turn the mic off you will be recorded and that will be sent back to HQ in Washington state. And it gets worse from there. The EULA is a nauseating Orwellian Nightmare that I ever read and it should be completely unacceptable to most intelligent, sensible people.
