Dual booting us viable, if you're curious its good to try linux via dual boot. Windows doesnt break the linux bootloader. The incident referencing was a bug I believe. I know plenty of people who've been dual booting for 2+ years keeping both OSs up to date with no issue.

[–] witness_me@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 hour ago

I’ve had windows nuke my bootloader at least thrice. Stopped dual booting a few years ago so I’m free of that nonsense.

[–] AmyAye@nord.pub 7 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I have had Windows update completely obliterate my Linux partitions at least twice.

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 1 points 52 minutes ago* (last edited 51 minutes ago)

Do you remember if its happened in the past 2 years? A patch windows put out in 2024 is supposed to fix this.

[–] starelfsc2@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 hours ago

I have had it break my bootloader when I was dual booting, if it wasn't my main pc then I might risk it but I'm not rolling the dice on if windows decides to break it again.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 2 points 2 hours ago

Still it's a really good idea to keep a rescue USB drive handy, for when windows decides to update it's boot loader and blitzes your setup