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If you want to daily drive linux, I recommend just installing only linux and commit to it for a bit. If you dual boot you may just find that you end up booting into windows and dont go back.
also recommend considering a rolling release distro. idk about Ai stuff but for games, a rolling release is almost always better.
depending on your needs try WSL2 instead of dual booting. I've been linux or macos for quite a while in daily work as a programmer and kinda dig on WSL2 in Windows, particularly Win11 with the improved terminal. add Docker in the mix and there's nothing you can't do in that kind of environment that you'd be looking to do in a dedicated Linux boot...again dependin on what youre doing i guess.
Can’t have WSL without Windows Pro.
Would rather avoid spending $100 just to enable virtual machines.
I did a similar thing when starting out with KDE neon, but I found having windows annoying as it would keep breaking Linux's bootloader (grub) randomly because Microsoft is an asshole.
On my laptop, I ended up removing the windows disk altogether, and it's a much nicer experience.
Dual boot might be necessary at first, but if you can just boot Linux and use a windows vm on it, that would probably be a better idea.
i dual boot Ubuntu and Windows 10.
Havent had issues much, even done upgrades of each. Ubuntu updates do sometimes trip out Bitlocker and prompt for a recovery key.
I have the same use case. Ubuntu for most things. Windows for gaming only.
I even do this with an eGPU. Ubuntu does well with it using X11 (not wayland) but requires reboots to connect/disconnect the pcie channels. Windows is better at it but struggles with USB enumerations on occaison.
Looks good enough for me. Even simply a browser + a single board computer + any "standard" Linux installation can be good enough as is for gaming/"browser stuff" if you don't mind limiting your gaming collection to a handful few of... 200(?) that changes every now and then by your gaming overlords. And yes, I'm talking about XCloud.
Mint is pretty lightweight so I’d almost argue that you have room to install a heavier distro if your PC is fairly high spec’d.