So, I decided to install it on a laptop the other day, something to do ;)
most of my machines wouldn't upgrade due to ancient hardware, but this laptop passed.
install was sort of quick and painless, I made a bit of a meal of it, by trying to be clever as always ;)
started with a fresh disk, let windows install, that was fine, all worked, then booted into a usb Kubuntu, used that to resize/create partitions, installed, rebooted, grub looked good, booted into kubuntu ok, rebooted, chose windows, windows spewed up an error message, refused to start, wouldn't repair, so i tried again, probably should have done some googling, but where is the fun in that, a quick look suggsted windows 11/Linux dual boot is fine, even if screen shots were win 10 install!
so did that another time, same result, so next time I started the installed, I trashed the partitions, and let windows take over on install, then in disk mgmt inside windows when it finished installing, created one to use for linux swap, one to use for linux, and one for files, that I can share between both.
rebooted into linux live cd, this time i didn't tell it to mount any of the windows partitions, but to just use the 8gb partition i created as swap, and the 32 gb partition i created for linux, reboot, yay, can get into both.
by default Win 11 has bitlockered the NTFS drives, so I guess when I resized in Linux on next boot it shat itself as not "same" drive.
disk partition tool in Kubuntu recognised there are NTFS partitions, and says they bitlocker, quick google and you can dl a tool to access them, I've not played with it yet, I guess as long as you know the bitlocker key (which you can get from logging into your MS account online) you can access.
So, for now it's working, and well, it found all the drivers for this generic Dell laptop with no problem, but that's not really a surprise I guess, Dell's site said it worked.
i've not done anything other than surf so far.
wierd the windows button being in the middle, take a bit of getting used to, umpteen years of going to bottom left hand corner, but windows button still opens bar, but that pops up a mobile stylelaunch screen rather than start menu, I guess that's what more ppl are used to these days?
there's still 2 different control panels.
some of the new icons aren't obvious what they are, and right click on a file in explorer, now brings up a menu, with some menu items, some icons, so you have to hover over the icon if you're not sure what it is.
this is windows insider preview, so that could change.
not tried any games yet, may try Roblox over the weekend, or install bluestacks to play a phone game and see how it it.
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