On a scale of 1(go ahead) to 10(thats the dumbest [bleep]ing thing I've ever heard)

Where would you rank the idea to resize a window 10 partition on a BIOS level no additional HW setup of a 2 SATA SSD RAID 0 setup... to install linux...

The combined RAID is 500GB so could I give 120GB to linux? The windows install uses less then 100GB

You absolutely can resize the partition. Do you have an idea of how to approach doing that?

May I suggest removable disk drives, instead? Buy a couple terabytes(!) for about $50(USD) at your local office-supply, with a USB-3 or Firewire or Thunderbolt or whatever-your-system-has adapter. Plug it in, reformat it for Linux, and you're off and running.

fake raid are awful in many aspects.

Please backup your data first.

No idea on how to deal with fakeraids. My asus g70sg also had bios fake raid which I ignored.

The usual squeezer for disks is gparted live cd / live usb. No idea if htat will work on your fake raid setup. And as said backup your data. Bear in mind you nuke your working windows. have recovery install media. have windows installer media at hand.

It depends on your work habbits how many GB you give linux. I'd say for testing out linux you can use any live media.
for just a plain install to test it out, something aorund 40gb without swap partition. no idea why freebsd, slackware and otehrs insist on swap with 20GiB on Ram for example. SWAP is only needed with 2GiB or less boxes. or when you abuse google chrome with 4GiB of RAM. Or certain special tasks which a desktop user normally not do.

HAve you looked into the nasty "dual boot" thing. That's kinda not such easy with uefi and windows 10 these days. you may do that first also!

Well to be totally honest I'm not super new to linux it's just that in my experience running linux is kind of like raising a pet hamster... every now and again you tend to get bitten... It's just that every time linux bites me I tend to retreat back to the dog/cat that is windows... at the same time whenever windows poops in a clothes hamper or tears open the furniture, I run back to linux.

Then every now and again I'll feel a little lonely and try dual booting.


I store all important data externally.

I'm paranoid.
Although i have two discs I nuked windows. And when i want to test it out, my gentoo drive is removed.

I had already my share of newbie linux mint nuking grub.cfg during the usual update procedure. Windows overwriting stuff.

So when my drive is not physically there windows can not do anything.

In the old days there were those plug in and plug out drives for tower PCs.

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my hardware does not supports it.
When you have two gpus, you could use kvm and vga passthrough, if supported, to virtualize windows 10 in your linux.

Would that require a 2nd screen be hooked up to the 2nd GPU for it's output???