How to Dual Boot Windows 11 & Linux Mint: Step by Step Guide

Ever wanted to enjoy the best of both worlds by dual booting Windows 11 and Linux Mint on your computer? Whether you're a developer, a gamer, or just someone who loves experimenting with different operating systems, this tutorial is for you!

In this video, we dive into how to set up a dual-boot system with Windows 11 and Linux Mint.

*🎓 CROWDSTRIKE CRASH SURVIVOR T-SHIRT*
Commemorate the largest outage in history with the latest addition to the LLTV merch shop.

*🎓 BRAND NEW UDEMY COURSES AVAILABLE!*
Check out my new courses on Udemy and learn something new!

*🐧 SUPPORT LINUX LEARNING!*
_Note: Royalties and/or commission is earned from each of the above links_

*📘 FAQ*

_Note: Royalties and/or commission is earned from each of the above links_

*⏰ TIME CODES*
00:00 - Intro
01:14 - Check out ThinLinc for Remote Desktops (Sponsor)
02:52 - Creating Linux Mint installation media
04:36 - Installing Mint alongside Windows
11:52 - Booting into Windows
12:50 - Booting into Linux Mint

*Links*

*🌐 LEARN LINUX TV ON THE WEB*

*⚠️ DISCLAIMER*
Learn Linux TV provides technical content that will hopefully be helpful to you and teach you something new. However, this content is provided without any warranty (expressed or implied). Learn Linux TV is not responsible for any damages that may arise from any use of this content. Always make sure you have written permission before working with any infrastructure and that you are compliant with all company rules, change control procedures, and local laws.

#dualboot #operatingsystem #Linux

[DxMrtx]

That's a nice guide but should also show people how to remove linux again, fix the windows boot loader and add partition space back. That's the more complicated part some will struggle. That's why it's always better to do this on separate drives or just use virtual machines.

[justadam]

You have no idea how much I appreciate the straight to the point intro and approach, my friend. Thank you!

[sheldonkupa]

Btw, i read your ubuntu server book recently: really well done! Particularly the samba part👏👏 was inspiring.

[sambalolek]

Take the Windows hard drive out, place a new one in. Install Linux. Place the Win hard drive in. Now you can choose in the Bios menue with system to boot. No danger of destroying one of the two systems.

[wuschelT]

I gave up dual booting from the same hard drive after some Windows Updates messed up my setup twice.
If you really _have_ to dual boot, consider having each OS on a seperate physical hard drive and use the UEFI boot menu to choose which OS you'd like to use. Much safer.
I think you should have mentioned this possible snare.

Anyways, I came to the conclusion that I can do everything I need to do in Linux and if I would really need one application that requires Windows, I prefer to run it in a VM. But in the recent two years there's no Windows application left that I need, so my Windows VMs are only collecting virtual dust...
Mind you, I don't talk about gaming! I'm talking about getting work done.

[sheldonkupa]

Nice video again👍👏 About EFI partitions and bootmanager:
Not exactly the subject of today, but i cannot heartly enough recommend REFIND: sudo apt install refind. Its an efi bootmanager with a nice interface and lets you boot into usb and firmware. It also finds bootable linux kernels on the root partition in case your grub doesnt work anymore. Very handy, use it since years! For regular fresh installs on same harddisk as windows i recommend to give linux a second large (at least 2 - 3 Gb) EFI partition at the end of the disk. Some distros like Pop OS require that.

[OlettaLiano]

New subscriber. Thanks for this video. It was very helpful.

[micdev]

Really clear explanation. I'm about to try this now with Mint on its own HD. I'll let you know how it goes!

[WillsJazzLoft]

I understand that when the UEFI is accessed that in addition to changing the boot order it's also advisable to disable Secure Boot

[fredjarvis]

Great video, as always. I would just like to point out to everyone that when selecting how much space to give to Windows vs linux, you will be able to access your windows files from within Mint but when booted into Windows you can not access your files from the Mint partition(at least not without special software to mount the ext4 partition.)

[slizgi]

Do you plan to make similar tutorial, but with advanced install option, when you create all Linux partition manually alongside and not destroying W11?

[MrMalchore]

I'm curious if Mint will survive the first time you have to do one of the more involved feature updates from Windows 11. That was an issue a few years ago with dual-boot systems.

[jabbahutt]

Good video. In my case, I have a notebook with windows 10 as the only operating system, with 1x SSD for the OS (256 GB) and 1x 1TB HDD for data. I would like to install Mint in dual boot mode (I have 80GB reserved space on the SSD for root and swap) and I imagine that the home partition has to be installed on the HDD. Is it necessary in this case to format a space on the HDD for /home, and if so, can this space be accessed from Windows?

[normaliz]

What do i do if i dont get the option Install Linux Mint alongside Windows Boot Manager?

[IliyaYaroshevskiy]

How did you bypass having to change secure boot on and off in bios?

[gurunaveenr]

Is that any space allotment required using shrink volume feature in windows for installing Linux mint or without allotment we can do?

[zakesduma]

Thanks Jay! That was simple and straight forward. Do I have to follow the same steps if I want to dual boot Linux and other Linux distro? e.g Mint and Garuda. If the answer is no, in future, can you be so kind and make a video that shows how to dual boot different Linux distros.

[rhalloff]

Well, because of you I'm triple booting now. 2 drives, three OS's. Windows 11 Pro, MX 23.3 KDE, and Kubuntu 23.10. Tried Mint. Not for me. I may install it for my mom though because it's that easy! By the way, I did wreck grub by deleting the Mint Partition instead of installing over it. Yeah, stupid, but I learned a lot and all 3 OS's work great! Thanks for the great video. Looking forward to more.

[cameronbosch]

Be careful; if you have a computer from late 2022 or later, you'll need to use the Edge ISO as computers newer than that may not boot Linux Mint because of the super old kernel on the non Edge ISO.

Great video though!

[julioperez]

To avoid issues with the update, you need to change grub2 to boot to the last saved os used. I did it never have a problem