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Thinking about ditching Windows, finally. Thoughts?
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Most here are recommending dual booting on 1 disk but I'll share my experience of dual booting on 2 separate disks. I tried it out after using 1 disk for a while and preferred it actually. I chose that method because I anticipated fully removing Windows down the road and didn't want to deal with partitioning.
My system booted to Linux by default, I had a script for when I wanted to boot into Windows. It told GRUB to ignore the default & boot windows on the next boot, then restarted the system.
Only issue was a conflict in time formats between windows and Linux causing the time to be wrong after switching but I was able to permanently fix that without too much fuss by changing a config.