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Two Operating systems take up hard drive space.

More importantly, they need to work separately, so you will need to partition your hard drive. This can be tedious and difficult to undo.

Booting will take longer.

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The major disadvantage of a multi-user operating system is of course that all of the specifications of the computer will have to be shared amongst the numerous accounts.

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every time u may choose different option during booting

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Other than using more disc space to contain both operating systems, there are no inherent disadvantages.

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