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Tips for dual-booting Windows 10 preview and Linux on a PC with UEFI firmware

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 21, 2015

The whole point of the exercise was to determine if attempting to dual-boot Windows 10 Technical Preview and a Linux distribution on a computer with UEFI firmware will be just as painful as doing so with Windows 8.

The rest of this article shows what I found and I offers a tip for those who might want to dual-boot Windows 10 Technical Preview and their favorite Linux distribution.

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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