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You don't need to do anything, it'll work without Windows, and grub should auto update with your distro when you do a major update (such as Kernel update)
You might want to manually update grub to remove the Windows entry just to keep it tidy. On mint it's as simple as:
It'll scan your installed kernels and other OS. If windows is gone, it will no longer be detected and disappear from the boot list after running this.
If you've set up a default OS at boot (like Windows) you might want to update the grub config files. Thats as simple as editing /etc/default/grub and setting:
Where 0 is the first boot entry.
You can also use:
which will remember the last selected item and boot that. Bit redundant if you're going down to 1 OS.