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Dual Boot or Within the system?
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this post was submitted on 11 Feb 2026
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dual booting is an advanced scenario especially with a hostile OS like Windows and it doesn't soundlike you got the expertise to fix shit. if your livelihood/education/etc depends on it, you should steer clear of such an adventure, unless you're in abject poverty.
get a $50 decade-old laptop and use it to run either of the OS, exclusively. it will give you a fallback solution if something breaks and you can figure out how to run that cancer on linux without endangering the primary rig.