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Instructions for setting up Dual Boot on Microsoft Surface Go.

1. Make bootable USB using Rufus and latest Linux Mint distro
2. UEFI (BIOS) move USB to position 1 boot order
3. Boot to Win10, disable BitLocker, reboot to Win10
4. Insert bootable USB, restart into Windows Recovery
   (Start > Settings > Update & Security > Recovery > Restart Now)
5. Select Use a Device > Linpus lite (Mint loads from USB)
6. Install Mint with advanced options (aka: 'Something else'):
   1. Shrink primary and create two ext4 partitions as: 
      root ( / ) 32gb; home ( /home ) 14gb
   2. Select as 'Device for boot loader install' the efi partition
7. Complete installation, machine will reboot to Win10
8. From Win10, in Terminal as Administrator run:
   'bcdedit /set {bootmgr} path \EFI\ubuntu\shimx64.efi'
9. Restart in Windows Recovery
   (Start > Settings > Update & Security > Recovery > Restart Now)
10. Select Use a Device > ubuntu (Mint loads from disk)
11. From Mint, in Terminal:
    1. $  efibootmgr
       (default BootOrder: Linpus, Windows, ubuntu, EFI USB, EFI Network)
    2. $  sudo efibootmgr -o 0003,0001,0000,2001,2002
    3. $  efibootmgr
       (new BootOrder: ubuntu, Windows, Linpus, EFI USB, EFI Network)
    4. $  sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
    5. $  sudo su
    6. #  cd /etc/efi/EFI
    7. #  mv Boot Boot_bak
    8. #  cp -R ubuntu Boot
    9. #  cd Boot
    10. #  mv shimx64.efi bootx64.efi
    11. #  exit
    12. $  sudo apt-get install grub2-theme-mint-2k
        (to install prettified Grub)
    13. $  exit
12. Power off / on confirm Grub loads, boot to Win10
13. Power off / on confirm Grub loads, boot to Mint

To revert:

1. In Win10 Terminal as Administrator run
   'bcdedit /set {bootmgr} path \EFI\Microsoft\Boot\BootMgFw.efi'
2. In Mint Terminal as 'su' in /boot/efi/EFI execute 'mv Boot_bak Boot'

Credits:

1. Multiple
2. AktasC @ GitHub
3. idimopoulos @ Dell Forums

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