A cat sits inside a cardboard box of a cathouse, Ignoring the actual cathouse.

the cathouse is labeled as "windows boot partition"
the cardboard box is labeled as "linux boot partition"
the cat is labeled as "windows update"
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[–] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

I didn’t do any disconnecting or reconnecting of any drives, just installed Pop on SSD0, Windows on SSD1, and set up three partitions on HDD: one formatted for Linux, one for Windows, and one meant for them to share if I ever need that. Using W10 LTSC IoT tho, so maybe that’s why it behaves better?

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago*

    Windows Update has a habit of eating the EFI partition. That's how I finally switched to full-time Linux. LTSC doesn't update as frequently as Win10 Pro, and probably doesn't touch the EFI partition as much, so there's a smaller chance for that to happen.

    Dual-booting can work for years without issue. My method just ensures that Windows Update has absolutely zero chance to fuck with the ESP.

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