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How reliable dual booting has been for you? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I currently have 2 PCs which dual-boot from single drive:

W10+Garuda on UEFI
W10+Pop OS on previously CSM, now migrated to UEFI

I have used dual boot for 2 years and Windows never decided to play the boss and override Linux. In fact, some Linux distros overwrote existing bootloader and put their own in my experience. I didn't have many problems and if I did, they were easy to fix. I even play Steam games from NTFS on both PCs. On the contrary, I heard many horror stories, dual booting is avoided and not recommended to newcomers by most users. How is your experience with dual booting Linux and Windows? Did Windows ever deleted Linux bootloader on updates for you?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

No issues, as long as you have two separate drives. In worst case, you have to change your boot settings in UEFI, after a kernel update.

But I failed setting up Windows and Linux, both with drive encryption on one single SSD. I guess my failing prevented me from locking myself out of the system.