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    [โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

    Out of curiosity what's your use case for dual booting? I know it's a common choice for new Linux users and I did it too out of fear that I'd be missing something I need Windows for, but I've been completely Windows-free for a while and much happier for it. When I did have a Windows partition I never booted into it.

    For games, Steam's Proton works pretty well for most games these days. You can check https://www.protondb.com/ to see if your game works well with Proton.

    I've also had good experiences with Wine for productivity software. Similarly, you can check https://appdb.winehq.org/ to see how well your program runs on Wine.

    Worst case scenario, if you have a decent enough PC, you can always run a Windows VM and that should run more or less anything.

    And all of these avoid any trouble with Windows eating your grub install etc

    [โ€“] kekmacska 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

    i have a weak laptop, with windows on the m.2 ssd and i'm trying to boot garuda from an external sata2 hdd, connected with an usb adapter. I have many important files on windows, and c# is mostly impossible on linux. I can't run a vm, because i don't know how to set up quemu, and my laptop is waay to weak for that

    [โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

    What Windows version is it? >!You should use Win11 IoT Enterprise LTSC. !<

    [โ€“] kekmacska 1 points 3 weeks ago

    windows 11 pro. No matter what, all windows overwrites grub whatever i do. The only option i have left is to buy a pc and swap the ssds, by physically removing one of them before boot. no other way to dualboot