Comment on Ok to dual boot Linux and Windows 10?
Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
Dualbooting is fine if they are on separate drives. I’ve been dualbooting in this way for about a year with no major problems. As the other person said, be sure to remove the windows disk before installing Linux as it is possible to mess things up if both disks are attatched. The other annoyance is sometimes when windows updates it sets itself as the default in the boot order, but that’s a quick fix.
I had my bootloader nuked when I dual boot with different drives. And that is when I nuked windows.
I think the only way to make sure is to completely disable windows update (as windows update sometimes also handles drivers uefi etc, not just windows).
I didn’t remove the windows disk and Ubuntu just added an windows entry in the boot menu
Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.world 1 week ago
The advice I got was the other way around, that you need to remove the Linux disk while installing Windows to protect the bootloader from the Windows installer.
marcos@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Everything is fixable anyway, you just don’t want it to break every time you turn the computer on.