Good afternoon everyone, have the FW13 amd 300i ryzen chip. I want to install the linux-fedora on a already installed windows 11 computer, but have no idea how to go about it. A detailed step by step would be most helpful since I am not a tech girl
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Go into device manager and resize your disk to make free space for fedora before you start.
Then follow Preparing Boot Media :: Fedora Docs and it should get you going.
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Instead of installing both Linux and Windows on the single internal M.2 NVMe SSD in your Framework 13, consider buying the 1 Terrabyte storage expansion card and installing Linux on it.
https://frame.work/products/storage-expansion-card?v=FRACCFBZ0A
All Framework computers have the ability to have both Linux and Windows installed on them.
The easiest way to do this is to have Windows 11 already installed on the M.2 NVMe SSD in your Framework and then install Linux on the 1 Terrabyte Framework storage expansion card (or on the second NVME SSD, if you have a Framework 16 or Framework Desktop which can have two M.2 NVMe SSDs installed).
Depending upon the Linux distro you install, the process of installing the Linux distro may automatically set up a GRUB boot menu which will offer you the choice of booting into Windows or booting into Linux. LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) does this and some other Linux distros will also set up the GRUB boot menu to give you the choice of which operating system to boot. I think MX-Linux and openSUSE Slowroll will also automatically configure the GRUB boot menu to give you the choice of booting Linux or Windows. I haven’t done very many dual-boot setups because I stopped using Windows 26 years ago when I started using Linux and the only dual-boot setups I’ve done have been for friends who were using Linux but still had to be able to run a few programs that only run on Windows.
Since the Framework 12 and Framework 13 only have a single M.2 NVMe SSD socket, the best solution is to buy one of the 1 Terrabyte storage expansion cards. This gives you two drives so you can use the internal M.2 NVMe SSD for Windows and the 1 Terrabyte storage expansion card for Linux.
The Framework 16 and the Framework Desktop both have two M.2 NVMe SSD sockets, so you can install two internal M.2 NVMe SSDs and then it is quite easy to install Windows on an M.2 NVMe SSD and Linux on the second M.2 NVMe SSD.
If you have two M.2 NVMe SSDs, the best option is to install Windows on one of the NVMe SSDs and install Linux on the other NVMe SSD.
If you have a Framework 12 or Framework 13, the best option is to install Windows on the NVMe SSD and Linux on the Framework storage expansion card.
Why do you have to install Windows on the M.2 NVMe SSD and not on the 1 Terrabyte storage expansion card? It’s because the Windows installer does not allow you to install Windows on an “external” USB drive. Since the Framework expansion cards connect to the motherboard via a USB C connection, Windows thinks the expansion card is an external USB drive and refuses to install on it. It is possible to install Windows on a 1 Terrabyte Framework storage expansion card but it’s a hassle and it’s just much easier to install Linux on the storage expansion card.
Installing Windows on one drive and Linux on a second drive has a number of advantages over the hassle of installing both Linux and Windows on the same SSD.
It’s certainly possible to install both Linux and Windows on a single SSD, but it’s much easier and better in many ways to install each operating system on its own individual drive. Especially if you are new to Linux and “dual-booting” a PC, it’s much easier to set up dual-booting using separate drives for each operating system.
If you have both Linux and Windows installed on the same drive, Windows updates have a history of rewriting the boot settings to force the computer to boot to Windows and removing Linux from the boot menu. This means that you no longer have the choice of booting Linux until you recreate the GRUB boot menu to be able to continue to have the choice of booting Linux or Windows. When this happened to you the second time, I decided to never again install Linux and Windows on the same drive.
If Windows and Linux are installed on separate drives, Windows is apparently unaware that Linux is available on the computer and leaves it alone. Linux is completely able to coexist with Windows, so Linux has no problem running on a PC which also has Windows installed on it.
Linux will run somewhat more slowly when running on the Framework storage expansion card than it would if it were running on the NVMe SSD because the storage expansion card is not as fast as an NVMe SSD. However since Linux itself is fast, it will run quite well on the storage expansion card.
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