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by tsm212 2281 days ago
I guess the only limiting factor in dual booting would be a lack of skill to set up dual boot. It's quite intimidating at first. I have been dual-booting for ~8 years and I have had my fair share of blunders but nowadays setting up a dual boot pc is very easy especially for the tech savvy (people who are running a k8 cluster) people. I cannot even recall if there was any time where I could restore atleast windows part of the os.
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I don't think it was setting up the dual boot that GP was saying was impractical, more having to constantly reboot to switch back & forth between OSes.
I don't think it's just a skill thing; multibooting is more surface for "interesting" bugs and annoyances as you force interactions between systems that weren't designed to work together. Sure, you might know how to fix Windows overwriting the bootloader for the nth time, but it's still a hassle. Yes, you know how to get the UEFI settings the way you want them, but if you were single-booting the system would have done it for you. I get that it's not that bad once you're used to it, but there is a cost to these things.
It starts with messed up clocks and ends up with a bricked SecureBoot.