The easiest way to avoid this which admittedly might not be possible on your laptop is to have Windows on a completely separate drive and to install them with o

The easiest way to avoid this which admittedly might not be possible on your laptop is to have Windows on a completely separate drive and to install them with only one drive in at a time. Then you can just use the laptops boot menu to pick. It's also a pretty quick fix in most distros with a live CD but yeah it's ridiculous that every Windows feature update will blow up the bootloader.