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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Don't even have to do that. Install windows first, then install Linux with refind bootloader on preferably a separate disk. Done

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I installed arch so that didn't happen.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Not how it works

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Did exactly that.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

You do need a separate EFI, even though linux finds EFI, otherwise windows update trashes it randomly and why the meme we see here exists, with separate EFI windows doesn't know about it. You can shutdown windows mid update and boot linux, then reboot back to windows and update will continue. Siloed System

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That's literally what I did yesterday with my method. It works, Windows has never trashed it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

It will, thats why that meme exists.

Not during typically reboots, but when some windows update or autofile repair happens it thinks it is the only OS on that partition and does what it likes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Nope, ran it like this for over 5 years. Definitely rebooted during updates / did some crap

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Then you have been lucky, because most peoples experience with grub EFI on Windows partition is windows will eventually scrub it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Makes no difference of what bootloader, just that windows thimks it owns that partition