If you ever looked any further than your standard startup menu and dig a little deeper in the Windows 10’s settings, you might have overseen a very important item called “Developer Mode”. how do you make this work?! Turn on Developer mode in Windows 10 Now you can actually run bash with Ubuntu on your Windows 10 machine! But but…. The Windows Subsystem for Linux, actually already introduced in the Anniversary Update, finally became a stable feature in the Fall Creators Update. It’s just perfect for any task like fast zipping / unzipping, python coding and other development, file management and a bunch of other tasks. Ubuntu on Windows 10Īs a Mac and Linux user I know that the shell / command line / terminal is where you make magic happen. Just follow this simple to use guide to change windows 10. Install Ubuntu Alongside Windows 10Ĭlick Continue to confirm the automatic partition creation.Windows 10 without admin rights can be changed to still install Ubuntu on it. Use this option only if you don’t mind about the partition layout and its size. If you choose to Install Ubuntu Alongside Windows 10, the installer will take care of creating partitions for Ubuntu installation and install Ubuntu 20.04 along with Windows 10. Install Ubuntu alongside Windows Boot ManagerĬlick Continue to confirm the automatic partition creation.

If you choose to install Ubuntu alongside Windows Boot Manager, the installer will take care of creating partitions for Ubuntu installation and install Ubuntu 20.04 along with Windows 10. Shrink Partitionĭo not choose Erase disk and install Ubuntu as this option will wipe out all your data and install Ubuntu, potentially a dangerous one. Shrink C DriveĮnter the size in MB and then click Shrink to begin the shrinking operation.įor Example: To get a 100GB free disk space on the 1TB partition, you would need to enter 102400. Right-click on C: drive partition and then select Shrink Volume to resize the partition. Since my machine has only one partition, i.e., C:, I will shrink it for Ubuntu installation.Ĭonsider shrinking the last partition in case your system has more than one partition. Then, type diskmgmt.msc to open the Disk Management utility. Otherwise, as the first thing, we will create free disk space on the hard drive for Ubuntu 20.04 installation. If your system already has unallocated space (at least 25GB), then you can skip this step and go directly to the installation of Ubuntu 20.04. Ubuntu 20.04 requires 25GB of disk space for the installation. So, machines will not have any free space (unallocated disk space) left for Ubuntu 20.04 installation. In most of the cases, Laptop / Desktop vendors ship machines with Windows OS pre-installed and the whole disk used for the operating system ( c: drive).

Step 3: Prepare the Windows System for Dual-Boot

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