I’ve been dual booting Windows with Kubuntu for 7 years now, when I switched laptops I just pulled out the SSD from old laptop and shoved into the new one (I do NOT recommend this though if you don’t feel comfortable fixing all kinds of weird issues in Windows lol) so I always used the same dualboot installations. I have not had a single time when Windows bootloader would overwrite my grub and cause problem, the worst ever happened was that boot order got changed after a couple of major Windows updates so Windows bootloader was loaded on boot instead of grub, and I could always just change the boot order back in BIOS and everything is back to normal.
I do use grub-customizer although it’s not exactly a good idea these days since it’s not exactly well maintained, perhaps that might have helped since it’s customizes grub configs in nonstandard ways?
It used to be more common. Back in the day, Windows frequently overwrote Grub “accidentally”, most likely because they wanted to make using Linux painful. That was back when Ballmer called Open Source cancer.
Meanwhile Microsoft has softened their stance on Linux and Open Source, and they made it much less of an issue.
It’s called duel boot when grub and the Windows bootloader keep overwriting each other.
More like boot duel
(this fight has been brought to you by UEFI)
Genuinely curious, why does that happen?
I’ve been dual booting Windows with Kubuntu for 7 years now, when I switched laptops I just pulled out the SSD from old laptop and shoved into the new one (I do NOT recommend this though if you don’t feel comfortable fixing all kinds of weird issues in Windows lol) so I always used the same dualboot installations. I have not had a single time when Windows bootloader would overwrite my grub and cause problem, the worst ever happened was that boot order got changed after a couple of major Windows updates so Windows bootloader was loaded on boot instead of grub, and I could always just change the boot order back in BIOS and everything is back to normal.
I do use grub-customizer although it’s not exactly a good idea these days since it’s not exactly well maintained, perhaps that might have helped since it’s customizes grub configs in nonstandard ways?
It used to be more common. Back in the day, Windows frequently overwrote Grub “accidentally”, most likely because they wanted to make using Linux painful. That was back when Ballmer called Open Source cancer.
Meanwhile Microsoft has softened their stance on Linux and Open Source, and they made it much less of an issue.
This article explains why. It’s not an issue that affects all motherboards.
https://wiki.debian.org/UEFI#Force_grub-efi_installation_to_the_removable_media_path