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Thinking about ditching Windows, finally. Thoughts?
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I agree with people who say that the best way to set up dual boot is to have two separate physical boot drives. Disconnect the one that has Windows, connect the one to use for Linux, install Linux, then reconnect the Windows drive. From then on, select which one you want to boot with your motherboard's boot drive selector.
Edit: the point of doing this is that both OSs leave each other alone and don't try to fight over the bootloader, which apparently is something that can happen otherwise.