dense agate
Heya! I'm looking to escape the Windows 10 EOL by trying Mint in a dual boot but Ive heard Windows Updates can cause the bootloader to break if they are on the same drive. Im wondering though if that will be a concern for Windows 10 now though since it shouldnt be recieving updates anymore?
I only have the one SSD right now so same drive dual boot would be preferable
How often was this a concern beforehand anyway?
deep quiver
Heya! I'm looking to escape the Windows 10 EOL by trying Mint in a dual boot but...
The only time Windows 10+ caused issues with bootloaders has been during feature updates, which 1 - as you noted, will not be coming anymore; and 2- usually could be fixed just by setting your default boot target back to your grub.efi, so it wasn't really ever that bad. Way back when, if you were using BIOS, it could get trickier with the MBR being overwritten, but that's not an issue anymore on any reasonably modern system that is using UEFI instead of BIOS.
dense agate
Oh awesome!! tysm! is there anything I should be concerned about then with same drive dual booting? Theres the more limited drive space ofc but thats fine for me
dense agate
oooh cool cool will give that a read
timber edge
dont get bad habbits try fedora
dense agate
Mint seems fine for my use case