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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Hey guys, after 2 years since my last attempt (and recently trying fedora on my laptop) Im ready to try again to install it on my desktop. First time I installed Nobara and it nuked my windows boots partition which caused a lot of trouble and trauma (couldnt boot into windows no matter what). Basically I want to accomplish this:

1- I want to install Fedora on a separate drive and keep my windows drive completely intact (Need it for work).
2- Preferably I would like GRUB to ask which boot option I want to use if my linux drive is set to be my boot drive and to boot straight to windows if its my windows drive set to boot.

Can someone please guide me into installing it the safest way possible?

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[–] Minty95@lemm.ee 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I would use two different disks, the one that you have already for windows and a second one for Linux. When you're ready to install Linux Unplug the windows disk, so that you can't screw it up ( been there, did that 😭) then when you need to use either the Linux or Windows Just choose the start up disk in bios at booting, usually F11, a tiny bit longer than dual booting, but it will save you a lot of hassle. Dual booting is rather dangerous as windows has the annoying habit of wiping Linux grub setups when updating, and Linux has the annoying habit of wiping everything, two different disks, much easier.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 hours ago

Windows only wipes Linux grub if the grub boot efi stuff gets installed into the windows disk EFI partition. Its best to specify a new EFI partition on the new disk so grub is isolated from windows. The distro OS probe should pickup an alternate OS on other disk and add a chainloader entry to Linux grub. Windows never knows there is another EFI partition if you do it this way.