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Back when I dual booted, I had the most success keeping Windows on a separate drive completely. After making the Linux drive the primary boot device, GRUB would pick it up and I'd be off to the races. I now just keep a Windows VM -- it's been much easier to deal with.
Boy howdy, you best keep that BitLocker key handy, though.
I'm not following, do you need the bitlocker key when Linux is on a separate disk? is there something extra you need to keep in mind compared to just running windows?
Just when recovering a windows partition encrypted with bitlocker.
Yeah. My TPM would trip every time Linux updated my hardware firmware... which was fairly common.
I was going to dual boot, to kind of test the waters of using Linux as my primary. Then I heard there were is with Windows not wanting to play nice, so now I just run Linux.
And to be honest I don't actually know what any of the issues are, I didn't care enough to even search it. I just said Fuck Windows and moved on with my life.
That was probably the right move. I had multiple drives, but only one SSD at the time, and I decided to dual boot with both on that SSD. Long story short, Windows fucked it up, I spent a lot of time recovering things, but Windows was never able to be recovered (I did manage to get Linux Bootable again). I decided to grab anything important off that drive and then just turned it fully into a Linux drive, and ditched Windows completely. It's been great since.
Windows is literally designed to break multi-boot setups. Funny enough, multibooting on a Mac was never a big problem. Microsoft has more of a reason to cooperate here and they just canβt help themselves.
My bet is it's partially on purpose. They think they can keep you on Windows by doing this, but for me it just ensured I go 100% Linux.
I think itβs worse. Itβs negligence. If their OS works, they donβt care what it does to the rest of your computer.
I think it started as negligence, but there's no way they aren't aware of it now and it's willful too. At first it happened because they didn't care, but now it happens because they like the result.
I currently dual boot like this. I'm still really new to Linux but I always wondered about this meme since I didn't have to change my boot settings other than to boot the drive with Linux first. Now it makes sense but it had me wondering for a while there!