[davedazer]

What do you mean by changing another window?

And that's very strange! Didn't even notice it.

if i have one partition and i wanted to install another windows on my external hard disk. i would need to format it first. so another hard drive where my important data is kept should be safe.

So you won't both linux and windows on your external? Yes you can do that but it's recommended to install windows first. You should always have another drive to backup data.

I'll have windows on my internal and linux on my enternal hard drive

[mothered]

Just Install Linux on a VM, whereby the Virtual Machine Is configured with a bridged virtual switch/adapter In promiscuous mode on the host NIC.

You'll have the best of both worlds (OSes) simultaneously right at your fingertips.

[davedazer]

Just Install Linux on a VM, whereby the Virtual Machine Is configured with a bridged virtual switch/adapter In promiscuous mode on the host NIC.

You'll have the best of both worlds (OSes) simultaneously right at your fingertips.

VM's are quite slow. My laptop doesnt have another RAM slot atm.

[Blink]

Just Install Linux on a VM, whereby the Virtual Machine Is configured with a bridged virtual switch/adapter In promiscuous mode on the host NIC.

You'll have the best of both worlds (OSes) simultaneously right at your fingertips.

VM's are quite slow. My laptop doesnt have another RAM slot atm.

If you find the right distro, you can run a VM that takes less than 70MB of RAM. Linux can run on like 40.

Look up 'Alpine Linux' to see what I mean.

Don't use Ubuntu.

[mothered]

VM's are quite slow.

It depends on the Host (physical) PC.

I have 5 VMs running simultaneously performing continuous tasks (IDS/IPS network analysis, traffic scanning, threat and Intelligence monitoring) and there's no latency whatsoever. My hardware Is pretty good though- 32GB of ram, SSDs, 7th Gen Quard Core CPU and the GTX 1070 card.

If you don't have the specs to run a VM, don't bother. You'll be wasting your time rebooting due to lack of responsiveness.

[davedazer]

Just Install Linux on a VM, whereby the Virtual Machine Is configured with a bridged virtual switch/adapter In promiscuous mode on the host NIC.

You'll have the best of both worlds (OSes) simultaneously right at your fingertips.

VM's are quite slow. My laptop doesnt have another RAM slot atm.

If you find the right distro, you can run a VM that takes less than 70MB of RAM.  Linux can run on like 40.

Look up 'Alpine Linux' to see what I mean.

Don't use Ubuntu.

how is antergos for a VM?

[davedazer]

VM's are quite slow.

It depends on the Host (physical) PC.

I have 5 VMs running simultaneously performing continuous tasks (IDS/IPS network analysis, traffic scanning, threat and Intelligence monitoring) and there's no latency whatsoever. My hardware Is pretty good though- 32GB of ram, SSDs, 7th Gen Quard Core CPU and the GTX 1070 card.

If you don't have the specs to run a VM, don't bother. You'll be wasting your time rebooting due to lack of responsiveness.

I have 4 GB of ram? will this be enough for a VM , running Antergos Distro?

[Skullmeat]

Windows and Linux dual boot just fine. It takes a slight bit of prep, like resizing partitions, but It not difficult.

[Blink]

VM's are quite slow.

It depends on the Host (physical) PC.

I have 5 VMs running simultaneously performing continuous tasks (IDS/IPS network analysis, traffic scanning, threat and Intelligence monitoring) and there's no latency whatsoever. My hardware Is pretty good though- 32GB of ram, SSDs, 7th Gen Quard Core CPU and the GTX 1070 card.

If you don't have the specs to run a VM, don't bother. You'll be wasting your time rebooting due to lack of responsiveness.

I have 4 GB of ram? will this be enough for a VM , running Antergos Distro?

Not great, plain Arch is better.

As Skull said, the best option is dual boot. (I once had 6 OSs on my desktop at once like this)

[mothered]

I have 4 GB of ram? will this be enough for a VM , running Antergos Distro?

Although I don't recommend It, 4GB of ram will run a single VM, but It's what you perform via the VM per se that counts. If It's memory-Intensive tasks, then you'll struggle on both the Host and Guest machines.

Some Virtual Machines (such as "Hyper-V" that's native to selected Windows versions and editions), will not run simultaneously on 4GB. Furthermore, there's VMs that are hardware-dependent whereby they require SLAT (Second Level Address Translation) support which Is a hardware assisted virtualization via the CPU Itself. Both (selected) Intel and AMD CPUs support this.

That aside, If you opt for the good old VirtualBox or Virtual PC 2007, It'll be fine on most hardware.