Will be installing either Mint or Pop_OS on a new laptop which has a 512gb SSD. Will keep Windows for gaming, at least for now, with the games installed on an external HD. But otherwise, this is to experiment with living in Linux.

I understand that I can unallocate HD space from Windows in order to make room for the LInux OS, leaving at least 25 or 30gb for the Linux OS itself.

Do I then extend that space further, so to speak, to allow for any other programs I might install as well as for data? Do I create a third partition for data that will be shared between the two OS?

What’s a reasonable breakdown?

e.g.
Windows 100gb; Linux 400gb or
Win 100gb; Linux 30gb; Data (NTFS) 370gb?

  • speckOP
    1•1 year ago

    I looked into this little bit.

    So on a 512gb hd an e.g. breakdown:

    Windows 150gb
    Linux / 30gb
    Linux /home ? 70gb
    Data (nfts format, shared with both os) 262gb (or whatever is actually left over)

    (I’ll have an external HD for games)

      • speckOP
        1•1 year ago

        Huh. I was going to have an external HD for games with two partitions: a larger one for PC, formatted in ntfs, and a smaller one for Linux, for if I want to try gaming with it, and formatted in ext4. You’re suggesting that both should be in exfat, instead?