> I think this is one of the reasons new Linux users have so much trouble dual booting. There's another problem. Motherboards with non-compliant UEFI specs. E

> I think this is one of the reasons new Linux users have so much trouble dual booting. There's another problem. Motherboards with non-compliant UEFI specs. Exact details here may be flawed, but one of the most insidious dual boot issues I had, which prevented grub from loading was that it turned out, if you had a folder or file labeled windows or Microsoft in the EFI partition, it would always preferentially boot that one no matter what order you set to actually prefer. To fix it, I had to run the Linux EFI utilities for OS detection to set everything up, then go in and manually change everything with windows to some other name. This included modifying whatever the grub configuration file is that says to never modify manually. The biggest issue I had is that it took a LONG time to figure out that noncompliant UEFI specs on the motherboard was the problem. It was maddening.