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I am not sure whether this is a duplicate. At least I didn't find an answer to my problem.

Following Situation:
For several reasons, I want to dual-boot my laptop with Windows 11 and Ubuntu.
I need to set up Windows 11 again, so we can work with a fresh version of Windows 11.

My Laptop: Lenovo ThinkBook 14s Yoga TLS
Windows 11, 500GB SSD, 16GB RAM, Intel Core i7-1165G7 @ 2.80GHz

Questions:

  1. Does it even make sense to Dual-Boot my Laptop with the given Specs?
  2. To make a shared storage, I guess, I need to split my SSD into 3 partitions. One for Win11, one for Ubuntu, and one which both can access (formatted to NTFS?).
    Does that make sense with a 500GB SSD?
    If so, how big do the Win11 and Ubuntu Partitions have to be?
    Is there a better solution to share files between both OS? (I want to access all files in documents on both OS)
  3. Which Ubuntu version should I use? 22.10 or 22.04. LTS??
  4. Is there a good guideline for beginners to achieve both, i.e. Dual-Boot and shared storage or can anyone guide me through it?

Thank you very much in advance :)

PapierFlieger
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Does it even make sense to Dual-Boot my Laptop with given Specs?

The specs are good.

To make a shared storage, I guess, I need to split my SSD in 3 partitions. One for Win11, one for Ubuntu and one which both can access (formatted to NTFS?).

You will need those partitions :

  1. efi partition

  2. two windows partition, one for c and one for recovery (windows creates it automatically)

  3. one partition for Linux for /. The swap partition is not necessary, you can use a swap file.

  4. one NTFS partition to be accessible on both systems

    • My advice :

      efi (500 mb)

      windows (250 gb)
      

      linux (100gb)
      

      shared (150 gb)

Which Ubuntu version should I use? 22.10 or 22.04. LTS??

Use the 22.04 lts.

Is there a good guideline for beginners to achieve both, i.e. Dual-Boot and shared storage or can anyone guide me through it?

Giude for dual boot : https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-dual-boot-windows-10-and-ubuntu-linux-dual-booting-tutorial/

guide for a shared partition : https://helpdeskgeek.com/how-to/how-to-create-a-shared-storage-drive-for-dual-boot-systems/

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