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Dual-boot questions (but not about Windows)
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Maybe you could clarify a few things. You say Windows was on a separate drive, but then you talk about dual booting. Do you mean that Windows was on another partition on a shared drive, or do you have two separate hard drives?
If you have Mint on one hard drive and uBlue on another, seems to me what you should be looking at is adding an entry to Grub. I've only ever done this with Limine, but I would imagine it similarly involves editing some config and running a rebuild command to refresh Grub. There should be plenty of info about how to do this, given how old and ubiquitous Grub is.
If it's two partitions on the same drive, it might be similar, but I don't know.
Tbh though, I'm at a loss as to why you want to dual boot an atomic distro and a typical one. You should be able to do almost everything a normal distro can do by using Distrobox. If you prefer having total control over everything, why bother with an atomic distro? What problem are you trying to solve?
I assumed dual booting just means having multiple OSs installed, does it specifically mean having them on the same disk? I have separate disks, so hopefully no need for partitioning shenanigans.
Partly redundancy, if I mess up one then I've still got the other; partly for supporting people, I've set up non-techies on both and I want to be able to load up the same system myself when I need to help them.