Prices for Gaming Laptops are crazy right now due to the Ram and Memory Shortages

[Meengla]

With Clonezilla you can make archives of either individual partitions or entire drive to restore later. It can also clone entire drive to a new disk.

For dual boot install windows first then install Linux. The Linux grub bootloader will auto-detect Windows during installation and will add a menu entry for either Windows or Linux every time you boot your pc.

Clonezilla sounds very interesting.
I have ran Linux in Windows but as virtual machines (VMware Workstation). No need to worry about dual boots etc. Maybe not as powerful Linux in a VM but good enough for learning. I make extensive use of VMWare Workstation environment and so easy to revert back to Snapshots in case you screw up. A lot of RAM and a powerful processor are very important for that and thus you see my hardware above.

 

[Ali_Baba]

With Clonezilla you can make archives of either individual partitions or entire drive to restore later. It can also clone entire drive to a new disk.

For dual boot install windows first then install Linux. The Linux grub bootloader will auto-detect Windows during installation and will add a menu entry for either Windows or Linux every time you boot your pc.

Clonezilla is perfect for me. Thanks for that!!!!

 

[HAIDER]

Dang, I guess I have been living under a rock for years! My main laptop, which is very similar to the one in the pic below, had it OS horribly corrupted for a week and I have been using the backup one as in the pic below--yes, an ugly, bulky Dell--and I thought to get rid of it and get some lighter one and I thought to get rid of this Dell but now I should hold onto it!
BTW, I don't even play Solitaire, let alone serious gaming. My heavy weight laptops act as servers and I sometimes do resource intensive GIS processing so need dedicated video cards.
PS. I do need to update the OS and I have a Rufus disk but that would probably wipe off the OS.

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25h2 tested lighter and faster.