uefi boot

Learning how to set up dual boot in 2026 means preparing a Windows PC so Windows and Linux can live on the same machine, usually by installing Windows first, shrinking its partition, booting a Linux USB in UEFI mode, and installing Linux beside Windows Boot Manager. That simple description hides...

ReactOS, the open source effort to recreate Windows NT compatibility outside Microsoft’s codebase, has produced an experimental ARM64 build that can boot on UEFI Arm hardware including QEMU and, with special handling, a Raspberry Pi 5, the project and early testers reported in late May 2026...

Ventoy’s latest maintenance release may look modest on paper, but it lands in the exact places that matter for a bootable-USB utility: UEFI display behavior, WinPE resolution handling, and a pair of Linux installer edge cases. Version 1.1.12 arrives only a couple of weeks after the project’s...

Ventoy has marked its 1.1.11 release as a 6th Anniversary Ver., and the update is more than a symbolic milestone. The new build fixes a display problem affecting UEFI booting of Windows and WinPE ISOs, adds new AutoInstall plugin options, and extends distro support with KylinSecOS. For a utility...

Ventoy has reached a meaningful milestone with its 1.1.11 release, a sixth-anniversary update that underscores how far the open-source bootable USB tool has come since its first public appearance in April 2020. While this latest version is not a flashy feature dump, it does address several...

If you ran the PC Health Check app only to be told “This PC can’t run Windows 11,” don’t panic — your machine may be perfectly capable of running Windows 11 after a single, fixable configuration change: converting your system disk from the legacy MBR partition style to GPT and switching your...