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?
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.
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?
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.