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I’ve been a dual / triple / god knows how many OS booted since the 90’s.
Windows has gotten into bad habits lately - it’s not staying in its lane. Meaning it hasn’t respected other boot partitions for a long time, and recently there seems to be a lot of people having problems with windows nuking their linux installs.
My strong recommendation is to buy a second hard drive if you dual boot. Then windows can be “over there” - I’ve never had a problem dedicating ssds to the OS. My second recommendation is to do this now, why wait until you’re forced into something? You’ve got a year to learn Linux and get comfortable with it.
As a counterpoint, I've had Ubuntu's installer and grub's updater overwrite and break Windows' boot files several times, but never had the opposite happen (I've had both destroy themselves, though). Thankfully, I know how to rebuild the necessary parts of a Windows install, so it's never been a catastrophe, but it's irritating to see what's always been the source of the problems I've had be held up as infallible. Possibly this is a problem unique to Ubuntu - I'm happy to blame Canonical - so maybe it could be entirely sidestepped with other distros.
oh yeah speaking of other drives its better since gparted doesnt let you merge it somtimes into one linux disk causing you to reinstall
I took a more aggressive approach, I bought a second drive, but I just took the old one out (laptop). I made a windows recovery USB too and just stored them together. My laptop doesn't get firmware updates through FW update so a couple times this year I have swapped the drive back in, booted up the windows partition and updated the firmware through their stupid tool.
Even on the vendor site, this laptop only has .exe files for firmware