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Can I dual boot windows and Linux? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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Ideally, I would prefer to dual boot ( two different drives if necessary) Windows 11 and Linux Mint. From what I understand, the crap Microsoft is pulling now will prevent this. Is it because of bitlocker?

Either way, another option would be to dual boot windows 10 and Linux mint. I would keep Windows 10 offline, which is why I would prefer to dual boot Windows 11, since it and Linux would both be online.

So are either of these scenarios realistic?

I'd like to get answers before my post is deleted. So thank you in advance.

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[–] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yes. But like @18107@aussie.zone said, Windows has a bad tendency to overwrite the bootloader, and that can happen down the road during an update of theirs.
That's why people recommend using a separate physical drive to install linux on if dualbooting with windows, because then you choose what you want to boot up on with the UEFI boot menu instead which Windows can't overwrite (yet?).

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    This was my concern. So if I boot into Windows and it does a mandatory update, currently, it can't effect the Linux install if it's on a different physical drive? Do I have that correct?

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    It won't affect linux itself, you can restore the bootloader and get into linux when windows does that, it's just that it's a pain in the arse to restore. But yes, it has happened not too long ago that windows overwrote the linux bootloader. Microsoft obviously claimed it was an accident, but they obviously don't care.
    And no, on a separate drive windows won't touch it at all.

    EDIT: Maybe it's not so hard to restore grub loader as I thought, could be as simple as these steps.

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