So, this is the place where I’m going to be generally hanging out and trolling around, while my Pixelfed, Mastodon, and Blacksky accounts are going to be primarily art posting accounts, and I also have a Nooki account.
I’m also going to start to be active more on here than on lemmy.org, so I’m making this my primary Lemmy account now.
I’ll link the other socials I’m varying levels of active on below, plus my lemmy.org account which I’m demoting to my secondary account if that instance is going to be more unstable from now on.
GRUB just queries it so you can pick it and boot from it, it should still be on its own drive if you do as I described with it, or at least it did last time I dual-booted, which was forever ago.
If you must run Windows, do it on a completely separate device if you can. That way your one game that’s DRM-locked to Windows can stay on its own machine without Windows getting hostile to your Linux install like in a dual-boot.
If you don’t have/can’t obtain a separate device for installing Windows on and you must dual-boot, the safest way to do that is to disconnect your Linux drive(s), install Windows on its own fresh drive so it can have its own boot partition and its own bootloader, reconnect your Linux drive(s) after your Windows drive is finished setting up and set your EFI boot order to point to your Linux drive, and then set your Linux bootloader, usually GRUB, to query your Windows drive and let you pick it to boot from, that way hopefully Windows stays on its own drive and its own boot partition and doesn’t try to screw over your Linux drive and its boot partition.
Your least friction option to switch to assuming you’re already on Mint, will be LMDE.
Welcome to the Reich. The Land of the Free is no more.
Well then.