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  • Ubuntu 25.04 plucky currently has kernel 6.14, 24.04 noble only 6.11.

    Debian 12 bookworm has 6.1 and the recently “frozen” 13 trixie has 6.12.

    For Debian bookworm, the non-free AMD graphics drivers firmware-amd-graphics date from 20230210 (backported: 20241210) and for trixie 20250410.

    I don’t know how up to date the amd firmware versions in the Ubuntu release are.










  • If I was to install one more home partition from the LMDE installation USB, would it automatically fix things for me in Grub or would I have to fix things myself before or after?

    If I understand you right, you want to install two additional SSDs, one for Linux root (system), probably ext4 formatted, and one ‘home’ for your personal data?

    If that’s the case, the boot loader GRUB is going to be installed onto the system SSD and will usually automatically detect the Windows boot loader on your current, Windows only, hard drive. If it didn’t, you need to toggle an option in GRUB’s configuration file and run update-grub again.

    For your home-partiotion on the other SSD, there exist two options:

    1. The home partition is Linux exclusive, probably ext4 formatted (this doesn’t work with NTFS), and all your data will be stored there. Yet, afaIk, you need to install an ext4 driver in Windows to access the data when you’re on Windows.

    2. The home partition is mutually accessible. (This the setup on my wifes laptop). There it’s NTFS formatted and the respective folders (Documents, Downloads, Pictures,… ) are mounted one by one using bind in /etc/fstab to their Linux counterpart.

    Edit: I’ve forgot to mention that, first I created folders named Documents, Downloads,… on the new partition before being able to mount them in Linux.

    After copying the data in Windows from the old folders to the new ones, the old folders can be deleted and replaced by hardlinks to their new counterparts using the Windows command line or PowerShell.