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Can I dual boot windows and Linux?
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If you have two drives, you can put linux on one and windows on the other fine
If you have one drive, you can split it into two at partition step.
I was pentabooting with 4 linux and 1 windows at some point. It works fine.
Just remember to save your microsoft account password somewhere just in case they lock your windows account for some reason.
Also a cool tip. Installing linux aftet windows works perfectly, but installing windows after linux often breaks grub.
What arcane blasphemy were you up to that required you to pentaboot 😭
One for CTFs.
One for programming.
One for university.
One for distrohopping, I tried all the way up to openbsd on that partition.
Windows one did not show up on my grub so I simply forgot it exists over time.
That makes no sense at all.
Linux surrealism lol.
I have the feeling its a emotional thing, like to be cool or something, probably not even true. I can't imagine someone doing CTFs and/or programming could be that dumb
And in the darkness bind them?
How else would you try the latest arch distro? Lol
At that point wouldn't it be better to run a hypervisor? Qubes maybe?