That is amazing

What happens on triple or more boot? Is it just a tree?

"Linux or windows"

• Linux
  "Ubuntu or other?"
• other
  "Arch or other"
• other
  "Void or FreeBSD"
  ...

This is fantastic, I should do this

I didn't even know grub could display images.

some icons there seems to be ai slop tho (not win and tux)

This is so funny, The windows should be blue coloured and linux be red.

Also seems like it would be fun to do with rEFInd

How does it perform in gaming?

For anyone that needs to hear this, the way to prevent this is to have Linux and Windows on separate drives.

I still don't understand gta online. For me the whole point of the GTA games was that you could do anything without a single thought because you were the only real person involved. That disappears when you add other people.

Same. There are one or two things that don't work on Linux yet or are buggy so I have Windows on a separate drive. I hardly use it though.

I've got this setup, but optimized slightly:

1. Install linux on one drive

That space at the end of 1) is doing some heavy lifting.

I used to run Windows on an esata drive that I would only power up occasionally in order to game, and it still somehow -- and I don't remember how -- managed to ruin my computer.

Just a heads up to anyone reading this: Don't format your home folder as FAT32/ntfs. Some stuff in there needs Linux specific permission bits and you might be limited in terms of maximum file size.

Consider mounting at /home/usename/shared or something instead if you want a shared drive.

Does this work to prevent Windows from fucking your bootloader in all cases? Also I dont quite get the importance of step 4?

I was triple booting a Hackintosh for a while and kept them on their own drives. You have to because Windows updates like to screw with the UEFI of the drive it's install on at random time. Somehow, Window was less stable than OS X running on unapproved hardware.

What distro? What sound card?

You might try something new that runs pipewire by default, if you haven’t already. But I might also know of some specific quirks with specific cards.

From the ground up has been done at least once, but given there are multiple layers of interface and driver, it might not be at the right level for whatever hardware you have.

I'm thinking specifically of how pipewire recently came along and basically took over the functions previously provided by pulseaudio, to the point of pretending to be Pulse where necessary so that things don't break.

FWIW, I recently learned that my motherboard has features that weren't unlocked by default in my distro. Not related to sound, mind you, but nonetheless, I've gained access to that now. It required loading an extra kernel module. The same might be required to get the best out of your sound card.

Probably Windows not actually shutting down.