Are You Scared of Dual Booting Linux?

It’s an interesting vote to say the least. Personally, I am familiar enough with my partitions that I have not had any problems myself.

An excellent question it seems even when my personal experiences are put aside - a friend of mine over in Norway attempted to dual boot everyone’s favourite distro (Ubuntu) on his laptop with fairly disastrous results. Specifically, a crashing while managing the partitions created an expensive paperweight. While I doubt this situation isn’t reversible (as that isn’t the point of this article), I wonder how many people are actually scared of dual booting Linux.

While initial searches of Google don’t convey this to be a serious problem or concern I am aware that myself and those around me have experienced problems doing this (theoretically) simple action, mostly with semi-devastating consequences. The commonly available resources discuss how simple a procedure this is, with image heavy tutorials and even video step-by-step guides. I’ve not seen a step-by-step account of how epically things can go wrong…. Source: seopher.com