Which system boot menu? what's the best way to go about doing a dual boot on separate drives? everytime I have dual booted when I wanted to remove linux was always leftover with the linux boot loader/selector even though the install had been deleted/wiped, has put me off trying again though I can use linux for 90% of the time for what I do on my PC and would be nice to try it again as it's been probably 12+ mths.
Google keywords you're looking for are "windows boot manager" and "grub2" (if UEFI).
As other's have mentioned, avoiding bootloaders and going "BIOS"/hardware is by far the easiest.
However, I do quite like Grub. Haven't dualbooted in a while (don't reboot, uptime go up) but I remember it was annoying to setup but great once you figured it out, since Grub supports everything. If you're too lazy (read: sunk cost fallacy) to blat/fix your MBR you can also just tell Grub to immediately boot into Windows. Exact method varies depending on which order you installed OSes, which version of Windows etc. hence annoying. But once you've got grub properly setup it should be good.
At least until a major Windows update "accidentally" sets Windows Boot Manager back to primary. Which is technically what you want anyway lol
If you're (not you, but the royal "you're", like the public at large,) manually configuring fstab, I would highly recommend not using drive letter/number assignments directly for this very reason. It's far better practice to use the block device UUID instead or a label. Just something that is going to persist regardless of the boot order or order devices are connected to the system. Just my 2¢ as I've been burned by doing this in the past.
WWNs are pretty neat too, for consistency with physical disks. Useful if you blat entire disks and do strange things. Like if you want to propogate something down to KVMs, you just wang it in the xml (I assume other hypervisors can do similar things). That said, NVMEs exist now (no WWN...) but you typically only have one which shows up as /dev/nvme0. I say that while having 2 on my PC... but only seen 1 on servers so far.
Been using Ubuntu (Gnome) as the main operating system for a while now.
Most of the stuff works but I do have to google stuff occasionally. Games run fine via Steam/Proton. Have used Wine before, it was ok too.
My laptop still runs Windows though due to Optimus (Nv + Intel) and as a general backup/secondary machine. The laptop has no audio on Linux due to some driver issues with Lenovo.
Googling is a dark art. I find Windows a pain to google strange things for. The Microsoft documentation is surprisingly correct for how large it is but there's the occasional inconsistency and (I assume) intentional ommission. Like
this page "forgetting" to mention it works on Linux guests as well.
Maybe it's because I'm more comfortable with Linux from work, so have an easier time debugging before heading to google. You sort of need to know what you're googling for before you can google something... Also some things are just a pain to google. Recently tried googling "expressvpn preserve diagnostic logs" which just results in a billion hits of people paranoid about or praising expressvpns log policy
