• Turbo@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    That may be a reason to run a dual boot with Windows and your special gfx or cad software that you earn your livelihood from.

    But for the other 75% of the time when not working, you have Linux.

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      5 months ago

      Till windows updates and over writes your Lilo or Grub boot. Might be less of thing with non-mbr setups not sure have not dual booted in a long ass time

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        5 months ago

        I have not had an issue in… 9 years? Though I use separate physical drives which might help. I wouldn’t let that scare people away

        Edit: I’m also using rEFInd Boot Manager. I have about 5 operating systems that I can boot into (good way to try various Linux distros)

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        5 months ago

        With EFI you can even install windows after Linux and it will not mess with your systemctl boot. Windows will only put its bootloader in the EFI partition and systemctlboot will continue working. My girlfriend made this and I lost my jaw.