I would like to clean install a Linux distribution as Ubuntu etc. My laptop runs Windows 8.1.
I have two options in mind. Clean install or dual boot.
My technical question is: My laptop have a 8GB SSD drive, which it uses to boot Windows with and a 500GB for storage. I wonder what that 8GB SSD stores? It can't store the whole Windows install as that would be much more than 8GB. Also if I would do a clean install of Ubuntu could I use the 8GB SSD to have Ubuntu boot up quicker. How would I install it? Option two, if I would like to dual boot, how would I proceed having the SSD to boot both systems?
I also wish to ask about the Legacy and UEFI differences. Windows runs with UEFI. So when I'm installing Linux, should I run Legacy, and if I dual boot, what option to I choose?
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You could install a virtual machine software onto your Windows 8 (such as VirtualBox) and you can then install Ubuntu onto this, get it communicating with your hardware (Internet, USBs, audio, CD/DVD writer etc.) and use it simultaneously with Windows 8... virtual machines are excellent nowadays and are often much easier to set up than dual booting the normal way... Yes, they use your computer hardware resources (processor, RAM, hard disk space) but machines nowadays are fast enough and have enough resources to do much of what the average user demands.
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