Hello world. I got my lenovo laptop installed with windows 10. It has a 512gb ssd. Windows uses this completely. But its got some free space. Enough to install another os. (More than half of the drive). What is the best approach to install ubuntu on it and utilize exactly half of that space?

personally, if I understand correctly, I would suggest resizing Windows' partition in Windows (I forget the name of the tool for it, but it has worked well for me in the past). After that, when you run the Ubuntu installer, it will (usually!) detect the Windows installation and offer to install Ubuntu alongside Windows, creating partitions in the unallocated space. If you have important stuff in Windows, do make a backup before starting...

@Zanna Are you talking about the Disk Management tool?

I don't know

It is the default partition manager for Windows.

then, probably :)

fortunately, I have no need to use Windows at all

this laptop came with Windows... there was enough space for me to keep it in case anyone in my household needs to use it, so I booted into it the one time, bypassing the account setup, used that tool to make space, and installed Lubuntu. Haven't booted Windows since then.

I am using Ubuntu MATE; Arch; Windows 10 as multi-boot. This SSD has a lot of space!

nice

Has anyone tried Windows 11?

I have tried it... sort of... i.imgur.com/1KB6ARR.png

@Zanna Disk Management, but I've sometimes run into problems where it doesn't let me shrink despite there being lots of free space, because there are "immovable" files on that portion of the drive.

@gparyani what's the solution for that?

MiniTool is what ultimately helped me; if there are immovable files, it will restart your system and do the moves offline

btw thanks for your meta post about 18.04... another good reason for us to support ESM :)

@gparyani good tip!

I came in here to ask for opinions on it, but noticed the chat feed posted it here already

Speaking of which, I'm wondering if the upvotes on this comment are because of the distinction I make between the two uses of the word "canonical" (case insensitive)

@Zanna I was wondering where the post was in which it was decided that EOL releases would be firmly off-topic. As I commented there, the past discussions I could find have highly-voted answers against making such questions off-topic, and I couldn't find a newer discussion on the topic.

yeah it seems like our EOL policy is not popular

I'm extra busy today @gparyani - I hope to get involved in the discussion on your meta post some time in the next few days

Hi! Can anybody give the output of apt-cache rdepends yaru-theme-gnome-shell on Ubuntu 20.04?

so borred

Me too

Would this be a place to engage with other hackers wanting to run Ubuntu (solo boot not dual) on MacBook Pro laptops from 2018 to current, Intel or M1? If not, then where?

@pajato0 Yes you can ask question about installing Ubuntu on a mac on askubuntu.com.

So this chat room is not the place but the site askubuntu.com is. That what you are saying?

Apparently this is askubuntu.com. So here goes: I have a 2019 MBP 16". I see instructions for dual boot but not solo boot. Are there some?

Has anyone reported being able to solo boot a 2018 or later MBP?

I do see a ubiquity bug report that installing Grub to a SSD (nvme) fails but that no one is working on it. I also see a set of instructions that has a workaround for dual boot which I am about to try. It is quite complicated.

Hey @gparyani. IMO, changing the off-topic policy of AU has been a sensitive issue since a year.

Pending tag edits for: 16.04, 18.10

@pajato0 Ah yes, sorry, I wasn't sure what you were referring to with "this", whether you meant this chat room or this website in general. This is a chat room associated with the Ask Ubuntu website. This room isn't very active (as you've seen), so it isn't a very good place for support. It's also not a good format for support. However, the main site, Ask Ubuntu, is a very good place for support and a great place to ask questions and get answers.

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