New to Linux, not sure where to begin :D

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@thefrog

many of examples of where it has.

Show me one.
I detest M$ as much as anyone but I like to deal in reality.
This kind of comment is made every time this is discussed and not once has it been substantiated.

Here, another forum, another year ..

Windows deleted Grub

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@cscs

But I may also add that, especially given the multiple disks, you do have the option to keep separate ESPs .. one for win .. one for linux, each living on their respective disks. But that will mean you will either need to use EFI/BIOS to select the different OSs at boot (rather than having the bootloader just present you with the options of the many OSs) .. or some fancy/involved chainloading to string them together.

os-prober will scan all the existing disk on the system for other operate systems. So Grub plus os-prober will create boot menu entries for the other os on the other disk. They don’t have to share the same ESP.

It is also possible with systemd-boot and separate ESP but it is a bit more involved to get it to work.

[cscs]

Oh, right, the boot-manager will make this depend. Thanks for the reminder.
With grub, systemd-boot, limine, refind .. its hard to keep them all straight.
Anyways with the idea that the whole windoze disk might get nuked at some point the separate ESP becomes slightly more attractive .. that way when the time comes the first/original/win disk can just be trashed without a second thought.

[nord]

So with grub I wouldn’t need a shared ESP to avoid having to enter BIOS to select OS?

Honestly, I’m really confused now about what to do with the partitions.

[MichelN]

No, ventoy does not destroy usb’s. Balenaetcher does!

Don’t ever touch balena!

[nord]

Yeah I researched further and I’m going with ventoy for sure.

[mpw]

There are many tutorials on YouTube to show you how to burn an ISO under Windows.
Try Linux From Scratch (just kidding !) Get a beginners book on Linux, read it and feel comfortable about the install process then try it. EOS as a Linux distro is great but still it is Linux/Unix not Windows.