Dual boot isn’t that bad if you just use separate drives; the issue is only with Windows and Linux on one drive.
It’s not possible on all devices, but my laptop has dual NVMe slots, and I used to boot Linux off an SATA SSD and Windows off an NVMe on my desktop before getting rid of Windows and moving my Linux install to the NVMe drive. Never had a problem.
The only hiccup you’ll probably run into is exorbitant storage prices, although you can probably opt for less storage (256GB or 512GB), you can still get well below $100 and have it be perfectly fine.
While 2 drives is better, you can safely dual boot on one drive by making 2 EFI boot partitions. Install Linux on its own EFI and the probe foreign OS will find windows and add it as a chain loading entry. Set UEFI to boot from Linux partition. Windows will ignore the 2nd EFI and only mess with it’s own.
If windows promts to add a drive letter on first boot (to the new efi and Linux partitions) just decline and choose the option to ignore in the future.
Dual boot isn’t that bad if you just use separate drives; the issue is only with Windows and Linux on one drive.
This is only true if you boot Windows by switching the boot order in your bios, if you boot windows through grub or systemdboot, it is liable to overwrite files. That being said, keeping them on separate drives removes all but the afformentioned issue, so I would still highly recommend doing so if you plan on dual booting.
Dual boot isn’t that bad if you just use separate drives; the issue is only with Windows and Linux on one drive.
It’s not possible on all devices, but my laptop has dual NVMe slots, and I used to boot Linux off an SATA SSD and Windows off an NVMe on my desktop before getting rid of Windows and moving my Linux install to the NVMe drive. Never had a problem.
The only hiccup you’ll probably run into is exorbitant storage prices, although you can probably opt for less storage (256GB or 512GB), you can still get well below $100 and have it be perfectly fine.
While 2 drives is better, you can safely dual boot on one drive by making 2 EFI boot partitions. Install Linux on its own EFI and the probe foreign OS will find windows and add it as a chain loading entry. Set UEFI to boot from Linux partition. Windows will ignore the 2nd EFI and only mess with it’s own.
If windows promts to add a drive letter on first boot (to the new efi and Linux partitions) just decline and choose the option to ignore in the future.
This is only true if you boot Windows by switching the boot order in your bios, if you boot windows through grub or systemdboot, it is liable to overwrite files. That being said, keeping them on separate drives removes all but the afformentioned issue, so I would still highly recommend doing so if you plan on dual booting.
I usually use my device’s native boot menu these days; booting through GRUB usually triggers the Bitlocker screen.