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Def dualboot just in case. I just finished a dualboot setup myself where I installed MacOS on a partition after shrinking my main LUKS+LVM root+home kali partition that used to span the drive, after that brain surgery tier shuffling I feel a lot better about doing dual boot setups, lmk if you need any help!
I've heard that while dual booting windows, sometimes it saves the grub boot menu in an entirely different partition other than what's allocated for windows or sometimes it saves it in the second SSD( if someone uses one ).
That's the reason I've not yet heavily convinced to dual boot.
I'm not a techy person and I can't afford to break the entire SSD for my unknowing mistake. Also, most probably I might not use 2 pieces of 256 GB to avoid such risks.
Any safe guide to dualboot windows 10?
FWIW, I dualbooted for years fine with win10 and Arch - the trick is to keep them separated. let windows have it's own ssd and linux it's own, that way the darn windows don't nuke other boot entries willynilly when notepad gets an update.
This approach needs 2 storage devices tho, and you switch which to boot from bios/uefi.
But on the upside, this makes no changes to either linux or windows, as both are on separate storage devices. Both have their own boot partitions. When you want to get rid of either, you can just remove partitions from the unwanted os' ssd and make new ones.
So, the method of dualbooting 2 OS on 2 SSDs is the same as standard dualbooting in one single SSD? Or I have to follow some extra careful measure?
it does the "same thing" but it's the low-iq unga-bunga-caveman option which requires less configuration. Meaning you don't get a boot menu to choose the os on boot.
if you want to be extra careful, just remove the ssd of the first os when installing the other on it's ssd & insert back when done. then just in bios/uefi switch which storage device to boot from.