Yeah at first, dual booting always sounds like a good idea, but it often fails and has sharp edges and rare edge case situations where people struggle to get everything working again, fighting GRUB and messing with partitions. Virtual Machines are the way.
Yup yup. Have had this happen countless times with Windows features updates. They always blow away the boot sector so Windows is the last one standing. Now I know better to install Windows on it's own seperate drive.
Once I got into Linux I ditched Windows in less time of dual booting than that. The primary reason was precisely this. It has no respect for the computer's owner and will do as it pleases. This is with grub too. It had to be eradicated from any machine I cared about.
I would consider myself lucky if I were in your position. I have dualbooted on several machines, and Windows updates have broken at least half of them. I wish you continued good fortune in the future!
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Yeah, that's actually pretty common behavior for Windows and a well documented drawback of dual-booting Windows and Linux.
Yeah at first, dual booting always sounds like a good idea, but it often fails and has sharp edges and rare edge case situations where people struggle to get everything working again, fighting GRUB and messing with partitions. Virtual Machines are the way.
Yup yup. Have had this happen countless times with Windows features updates. They always blow away the boot sector so Windows is the last one standing. Now I know better to install Windows on it's own seperate drive.
I've never had that in ~4 years of dual booting with windows 10, but it also was grub most of that time
Once I got into Linux I ditched Windows in less time of dual booting than that. The primary reason was precisely this. It has no respect for the computer's owner and will do as it pleases. This is with grub too. It had to be eradicated from any machine I cared about.
I would consider myself lucky if I were in your position. I have dualbooted on several machines, and Windows updates have broken at least half of them. I wish you continued good fortune in the future!