Why does my pc have a heart attack everytime this bloatware updates? Then it takes forever to load once I shutdown and restart. Thanks Bill Gate$ (satan).
Why does my pc have a heart attack everytime this bloatware updates? Then it takes forever to load once I shutdown and restart. Thanks Bill Gate$ (satan).
To be honest, as someone that does dual-boot, I don't think it's as complex as you make it seem. Only caveat is I wouldn't install both on a single disk, though, Windows will immediately fuck up the UEFI entries for you and that will take complex intervention.
With two drives you can dual boot very easily, though.
I hard disagree. Putting linux on a different disk from windows is even more complicated and distro installers cannot handle it. If you install it on the same disk as windows most distro installers do an okay job.
After reading someone posting advice like yours I tried to install a dual-boot on separate disks using ubuntu. Managed to trash both windows & linux installs, making my computer unbootable. Two years later I committed to installing Arch so had to teach myself all about UEFI and bootloaders and boot partitions and MBR vs. GPT partition tables and and and and... - finally got it working. This isn't even getting into the notorious footguns where windows sets wake-on-lan/magic packet flags in the NIC volatile memory which the linux network driver can't understand so your internet connection fails in very mysterious ways. Or the hibernate & fast boot stuff.
Point being there are just way way too many moving parts to ever recommend dual boot to anybody. It is a great way to make somebody have a terrible experience and never try linux again.
I think maybe the Ubuntu installer was just fucked back then or something. I've done multiple installs with Calamares in the past two years and had no issues. A laptop and desktop, Intel/Nvidia and AMD/AMD. Installing Linux was never an issue but getting an offline (no Microsoft account) install of Windows 11 to go through was a major pain in the ass.
Maybe I'm just ignorant as to how complex it seems to others, or to the installers of other distros. With Fedora, it honestly was as complex as Boot from USB > Run Installer > Select blank hard drive to install to > Keep clicking next > Done. That was honestly it, no bootloader messing, no UEFI messing, no nothing. Excluding boot/load times it'd be like a 30 seconds video guide.
Maybe the Ubuntu installer really was so bad that it overwrote boot entries by default, but I'm honestly mad if they fucked up that bad. As a power user that does fuck with my boot shit for fun, I don't think I've ever delved as far as it sounds like you have.
However, I certainly agree whatever the case, that just installing Linux will be simpler and easier.