Once upon a time, installing Ubuntu + Windows dual boot on Legion Y530

This will be a long story for those who find themselves in a situation when dual boot Ubuntu + Windows doesn’t work as expected.

So let’s get started. I recently got a new laptop Lenovo legion Y530 for software development. Since I love linux OS due to its features and usability when it comes to Software development, I thought installing Ubuntu 18.04 along with Windows will be cake walk.

As it turned out it was a nightmare, reasons:

• Legion laptop has preinstalled Windows with nvidia graphics card.
• Tech specs like 32GB RAM, i7core8th gen processor. Less battery life since it is a gaming laptop.

I came to know from many articles that with this laptop you need to take extra care in terms of how you setup the linux distro along with Win10.

So I went ahead and installed linux along with Windows with all partitions in place.

But two days later the system started behaving weirdly. I used to get into login loop in Ubuntu meaning when I tried to login with correct password it does not log me in but it again comes back to login screen without any error which pissed me off.

Then I found online some ways to mitigate this issue but some worked for short duration like changing the password etc.

Important things to remember

• You need to download all the necessary drivers so that linux works smoothly.
• Setup in a way so that you can remove Ubuntu easily later from the machine.

Though in the past I had installed Ubuntu along windows many times but this situation was kind of weird and challenging for me.

After successful installation, I had started installed all the required software tools for development which worked for atleast 3 days until the apocalypse arrived ☺

As a backup I had windows running along side. Due to inconsistent performance I had to go back to Windows only ways of working 😢

Long story short it was hell a lot of learning.

I would encourage to get your hands dirty with Ubuntu + Windows setup and get some experience with how things work and why so.

Keep learning.