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Keeping windows around in any capacity takes more time. It only takes it deciding to overwrite your bootloader a single time to become an annoying time sink.

• extraisland 1y ago
  > Keeping windows around in any capacity takes more time. No it doesn't. I honestly not sure what people are doing when they claim this. I have to do a reinstall every 5 years. I do use chocolatey as package manager. I do run the debloat script that removes most of the annoyances. I typically install the follow WSL, MSYS2, Steam, GoG, Podman or Docker, Brave, Thunderbird, Emulators, Python, Go and .NET. With choco this is a oneliner, do some chores in the house and then sign in to everything. It maybe few hours max, every few years. It isn't as onerous as you are suggesting. > It only takes it deciding to overwrite your bootloader a single time to become an annoying time sink. It won't do this randomly like you are suggesting. It does it when doing a full reinstall. It won't do it when you are doing a PC refresh. I've had fix this recently. It isn't super difficult if you've done before. Windows will just overwrite the EFI partition. The process to fix is to boot live-cd, then chroot into the Linux install, use blkid / lsblk to confirm the GPT partitions label that would changed, update fstab, rerun update-grub2 and you are done. It can be a time sink. But Linux itself is generally a massive time sink.