Questions about Linux Mint and this list

[Liam Proven]

On Mon, 18 Jul 2022 at 23:59, Bret Busby <bret at busby.net> wrote:

> It kind of sounds like what we had to go through with UEFI, to install
> 16.04 and before; going into BIOS, and switching from UEFI to "Legacy BIOS".

That's a different issue altogether.

I used to do this as a matter of routine but with modern machines I
don't always bother. Both ways of booting have advantages, and sadly,
the Ubuntu installer since 19.10 has been a bit brain-damaged and
creates a UEFI system partition even if you don't have UEFI.

But you said you wanted Win11. Win11 _requires_ UEFI.

(Win10 does not.)

And if you have UEFI, you will need an ESP. And if you need both, you
probably have a GPT-partitioned hard disk and so 1 little partition
makes little difference.

On the old MBR partition format, you can only have 4 primary
partitions per drive. Some of my computers need all 4 and I can't
spare one for a pointless UEFI partition. One of my testbed laptops
currently multi-boots Win10, FreeBSD, Ubuntu, Debian, Devuan, Arch
Linux, openSUSE, and MX Linux.

With the new GPT partitioning scheme, which is the default for UEFI
machines, there is no longer a distinction between primary and
secondary partitions, and you can have as many primaries as you want.
I've tried 6 to 8 no problem and I've heard of 30+.


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